The Journey to Excellence in Legal Writing
©2011, 212 pages
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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:
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.
Pamela J. Newell, Esq. holds a LL.M. with concentration in law and government from American University, a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is pursuing a master's degree in forensic psychology from Arizona State University. She is an assistant professor at the University of North Georgia at Dahlonega, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, juvenile justice, and criminal justice. Most recently, she served as partner at Nading & Newell Law Offices, PLLC, where she worked as appellate counsel, briefing attorney, and document reviewer. Professor Newell is also a former law professor and the author of several publications.
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