Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Journey to Excellence in Legal WritingCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9781609279677ISBN: 9781609279677Publisher: Cognella, IncRelease Date: 08/30/2012Description: Professors Newell and Peterkin deal thoroughly with fundamental grammar skills often overlooked in legal writing textbooks. The chapters in this text cover everything that students should learn in legal writing from spotting issues, to finding and interpreting the law, to writing either an objective or persuasive document for their client or the court. Each chapter provides exhaustive treatment of the topic. The text also provides useful examples and exercises for the reader to test his or her understanding of the topic. The Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing not only contains a thorough explication of legal writing for first-year law students. Upper-level students, practitioners, and judges will also benefit from the instruction contained in these pages. Therefore, this book is the perfect tool for all who wish to learn and improve their legal writing skills. Through The Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing students and other readers will: Learn the differences between primary and secondary law, the doctrine of stare decisis, and the distinction between statutory law and case law. Become skilled at outlining rules in order to identify issues and craft issue statements properly.Gather knowledge to interpret statutes and apply case law to different factual scenarios. Use synthesis to compare court holdings and reasoning in fashioning a general legal principle.Be taught how to develop organizational skills and use grammatical rules appropriately.Be able to apply effective techniques in writing memoranda.Study the importance of ethics in correspondence to clients.Comprehend the power behind mediation and negotiations. Study the best ways to answer examination questions.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 525gAuthor: Pamela Newell, Timothy J. PeterkinGenre: Language & ReferenceItem Width: 11mmTopic: Law & PoliticsISBN-10: 1609279670Type: LawRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing
Title: The Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing
EAN: 9781609279677
ISBN: 9781609279677
Release Date: 08/30/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Language & Reference
Topic: Law & Politics
ISBN-10: 1609279670
Number of Pages: 212 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing
Publisher: Cognella, Inc.
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: General
Item Weight: 18.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 10 in
Subject Area: Law
Author: Timothy J. Peterkin, Pamela Newell
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
