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• Title:Your client's story : persuasive legal writing / Ruth Anne Robbins, Steve Johansen, Ken Chestek.
  
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• Author/Creator:Robbins, Ruth Anne, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Johansen, Steve, author.
  Chestek, Ken, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Wolters Kluwer, [2019]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF250 .R625 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Lost - 05-16-2023
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal composition.
  Law--United States--Language.
  Law--United States--Methodology.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xxvii, 515 pages ; 26 cm
  
• Series:Aspen select series.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781543803709 paperback
  1543803709 paperback
  
• Contents:Meeting the client
  Understanding persuasion
  Story as a tool for persuasion
  Thinking about the audience
  Gathering and assessing facts
  Researching the client's legal issue
  Representing your client, the protagonist
  Shadow stories and theme development
  Creating the work draft of the facts section
  Expressing the argument
  Working with the law, part 1: interpreting statutes
  Working with the law, part 2: creating policy arguments
  Working with the law, part 3: managing adverse material
  Working with the facts: inferential reasoning
  Organizing the working draft of the argument
  Revising the argument: persuasive rule statements and other persuasion techniques
  Revising the story to strengthen the theme
  Making the first and last impressions: the introduction and conclusion sections
  The full contents of a brief
  Creating ethos: tone and branding by good visual design
  Persuading in person: oral argument.