Beyond the Basics: A Text for Advanced Legal Writing

Beyond the Basics: A Text for Advanced Legal Writing
ISBN-10
031427166X
ISBN-13
9780314271662
Series
Beyond the Basics
Category
Legal composition
Pages
493
Language
English
Published
2012-10-16
Publisher
West Academic Publishing
Authors
Mary Barnard Ray, Barbara J. Cox

Description

This how-to writing guide helps lawyers and law students master the full array of legal writing tasks and become adept and agile writers. While chapters focus on specific legal writing tasks, they also teach sophisticated writing techniques and how to use them effectively in a legal context. Chapters cover statutes, jury instructions, contracts, issues, objective and persuasive statements of fact, discussion sections and arguments, pleadings, documents for motion practice, interrogatories, correspondence (including electronic forms), opinion letters, wills and trusts, and research papers.

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