TY  - BOOK
AU  - Calleros,Charles R.
TI  - Legal method and writing
T2  - Aspen coursebook series
SN  - 9780735585126 (pbk.)
AV  - KF250 .C345 2011
U1  - 808/.06634 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Austin, New York, NY
PB  - Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, Aspen Publishers
KW  - Legal composition
KW  - Law
KW  - United States
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Introduction to writing style : policy, purpose, and audience -- Overview of the case method of study -- Common law -- Legislation -- The role of precedent : the court system and stare decisis -- Deductive reasoning and IRAC-introduction to legal analysis -- Case briefs -- Reorganization, summary, and inductive reasoning in outline form -- Essay examinations -- Introduction to the law library -- Content of the office memorandum of law -- Organization of office memoranda and briefs -- Legal writing style in the office memorandum -- Presenting, quoting, and citing to authority -- Advocacy : overview and ethics -- Developing your legal arguments -- Expressing your advocacy : persuasive writing style and oral argument -- Pleadings -- Motion for summary judgment -- Motion to exclude evidence before trial -- Standards of appellate review -- The brief-effective appellate advocacy -- Contracts -- Advice letters -- Demand letters
ER  -