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• Title:Successful legal analysis and writing : the fundamentals / Christopher D. Soper, Cristina D. Lockwood.
  
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• Author/Creator:Soper, Christopher D., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Lockwood, Cristina D., author.
  
• Published/Created:St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2022]
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KF250 .S66 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Legal composition.
  Law--United States--Language.
  
• Edition:Fifth Edition.
  
• Description:xxii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"This work is a practical legal analysis and writing handbook. Designed for first-year students, it is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners. This easy-to-read book features fundamental advice on how to communicate written and oral legal analysis from a problem-solving perspective. It features illustrative examples and templates. The fifth edition includes additional examples and models, and appendices with practice exercises and sample answers, all created in collaboration between one author with recent practice experience and one who has been teaching for over twenty years. It also incorporates professional ethical and technological considerations throughout, while providing learning objectives for each chapter." -- publisher's website
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:1647085152
  9781647085155
  
• Contents:An expedition
  The role of facts in resolving legal problems
  The role of rules in resolving legal problems
  Disassembling rules : a single rule and a single case
  Determining the rule in complex scenarios : statutes
  Determining the rule in complex scenarios : multiple court decisions
  Basic organizing principles in legal analysis and writing
  Basic writing principles
  Citation and quotation basics
  Communicating a predictive analysis
  Communicating a persuasive analysis
  Oral argument.