From the distinguished authors of the popular Legal Writing Handbook, Fourth Edition, comes this clear and focused treatment of briefs, in the authors’ effective step-by-step writing style. Developed from the coverage on briefs from the authors’ successful Legal Writing Handbook, this text includes: <ul>
<li> focused coverage on how to write briefs </li> <li> helpful examples of trial and appellate briefs </li> <li> how to present an effective oral argument </li> <li> straightforward, step-by-step exposition </li> <li> a detailed Teacher’s Manual </li> <li> a valuable author website resource, featuring: <ul>
<li> materials on effective teaching </li> <li> sample class plans </li> <li> PowerPoint slides </li> <li> Suggested brief problems </li> </ul>
</li> <li> an on-line diagnostic exam—available to professors who adopt the text </li> </ul>
 Designed to complement any comprehensive legal writing coursebook, Just Briefs, Second Edition, provides clear and focused coverage of the writing techniques unique to creating effective briefs.

Just Briefs, Second Edition (Legal Research and Writing)

Anne Enquist

Laurel Currie Oates

Constance Krontz

Legal Education

Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

Legal Writing Handbook : Analysis, Research, and Writing

Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.

"
 The Legal Writing Practice Book is the ideal accompaniment to the Legal Writing Handbook. This comprehensive supplement contains: <ul>
<li> hundreds of class-tested exercises to help students practice their skills while reinforcing their understanding of the material </li> <li> an accessible format with perforated pages that make it easy to use for both class assignments and individual study </li> <li> an answer key for all the exercises cross-referenced to The Legal Writing Handbook, Fourth Edition, including short explanations about why a given answer is recommended </li> <li> new exercises for English as a second language </li> </ul>
 Key topics covered in the Legal Writing Practice Book include: <ul>
<li> paragraph length </li> <li> topic and concluding sentences </li> <li> active/passive voices </li> <li> transitions </li> <li> creating emphasis </li> <li> conciseness </li> <li> fragments </li> <li> grammar </li> <li> punctuation </li> </ul> "

The Legal Writing Handbook: Practice Book 5e

Aspen Publishers

This concise paperback focuses on legal memo writing and provides law students with the information they need to write objective memos, opinion letters, and e-mails. Just Memos, Third Edition, is designed as a supplemental text for first-year legal writing students and will prove a valuable resource for any legal writing course. The Third Edition has been polished and updated, and includes a new chapter which the authors researched by interviewing practicing attorneys on writing e-memos. Laurel Currie Oates and Anne Enquist, pioneers in the field of legal writing, have artfully distilled the introductory and objective memo writing chapters from their successful Legal Writing Handbook. This manageable paperback <ul>
<li> Features the straightforward, step-by-step writing style that has made the Legal Writing Handbook so successful. </li> <li> Helps students understand the features unique to memo writing and how to apply them in practice. </li> <li> Includes helpful examples of both simple and more complex memoranda . </li> <li> Provides unique coverage of memo writing by itself, for students who need extra help and guidance, or for instructors who want to add extra coverage of this area to their current legal writing text. </li> <li> Recognizes the increasingly global nature of legal practice. Lawyers from other countries will welcome the detailed explanation of the United States legal system and information about the differences between writing in other cultures and writing for United States lawyers. </li> <li> Provides information designed to help undergraduates make the transition from different types of academic writing to legal writing , and to help foreign students and foreign lawyers understand the rhetorical preferences of United States lawyers. </li> </ul>

Just Memos, Third Edition (Aspen Coursebook)

Just Research, Third Edition, offers students and professors a unique and up-to-date approach to the fundamentals of legal research. Instead of simply describing sources, Just Research goes a step further and shows students how to use those sources to research a variety of issues, including issues governed by common law, issues governed by state and federal statutes, issues governed by local law, constitutional law issues, issues governed by local law, and factual issues. The Third Edition features a new introductory chapter about the current state of legal research. In addition, students receive free access to a website that walks them, step-by-step, through the process of researching each type of issue discussed in the text using books, Westlaw, WestlawNext, LexisNexis and free sources, including Google Scholar. Among the features that have made this highly regarded text such an important tool for students: <ul>
<li> An organizational scheme based on types of legal issues and not particular legal sources. </li> <li> Descriptions of both book and electronic sources, including the most recent versions of Westlaw, WestlawNext, LexisNexis, and Google Scholar. </li> <li> Practice Pointers that provide students with practical tips and inside information about doing legal research. </li> </ul>
 New to the Third Edition: <ul>
<li> A new introductory chapter about the current state of legal research </li> <li> An updated electronic supplement that walks students through the process of researching issues using books, Westlaw, WestlawNext, LexisNexis, and free Internet sources, including Google Scholar. </li> </ul>

Just Research, Third Edition

The Practice Book is the ideal accompaniment to The Legal Writing Handbook. This comprehensive supplement contains the following: <ul>
<li> Hundreds of class-tested exercises to help students practice their skills while reinforcing their understanding of the material </li> <li> An accessible format with perforated pages that make it easy to use for both class assignments and individual study </li> <li> An answer key for all the exercises, cross-referenced to The Legal Writing Handbook, Sixth Edition, including short explanations about why a given answer is recommended </li> <li> Exercises for English-as-a-second-language issues </li> </ul>
 Key topics covered in THE LEGAL WRITING HANDBOOK: PRACTICE BOOK: <ul>
<li> Paragraph length </li> <li> Topic and concluding sentences </li> <li> Active/passive voice </li> <li> Transitions </li> <li> Creating emphasis </li> <li> Conciseness </li> <li> Fragments </li> <li> Grammar </li> <li> Punctuation </li> </ul>

The Legal Writing Handbook: Practice Book (Aspen Coursebook)

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

Buy a new version of this Connected Casebook and receive access to the online e-book, practice questions from your favorite study aids, and an outline tool on CasebookConnect, the all in one learning solution for law school students. CasebookConnect offers you what you need most to be successful in your law school classes – portability, meaningful feedback, and greater efficiency. This looseleaf version of the Connected Casebook does not come with a binder. The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing continues in the tradition that has made it a resounding success and a leading text for almost two decades, offering a complete teaching package with everything a student needs for the legal writing course. Features:
<ul>
<li>Updated with the goal of making students practice ready.</li> <li>New chapter on writing e-memos, that is, shorter, less formal memos that might be embedded in an email.</li> <li>Exercises added to the research chapters</li> <li>Expanded chapter on letters that discusses both opinion letters and demand letters.</li> </ul>
CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples &amp; Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.

The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing [Connected Casebook] (Looseleaf) (Aspen Coursebook)

Wolters Kluwer

Just Briefs: Preparing for Practice, Fourth Edition, features the authors' famously effective step-by-step approach in the form of a highly focused how-to guide.&nbsp; Just Briefs provides all of the tools needed to master the critical legal writing skill of drafting motion and appellate briefs. The perfect companion to any legal writing text, Just Briefs teaches the skills of effective advocacy as it plays out in trial and appellate briefs, oral argument, and the thinking process that informs both. New to the Fourth Edition: <ul> <li>Updated examples throughout the text</li> <li>Reorganized in this edition into shorter, more teachable chapters</li> </ul> Professors and students will benefit from: <ul> <li>The authors' trademark straightforward, step-by-step approach</li> <li>Helpful examples of motion and appellate briefs</li> <li>Ideas about how to present an effective oral argument</li> <li>Federal rules and samples of federal briefs, valuable resources for participants in moot court competitions</li> <li>Practice Pointers that offer real-world advice for writing persuasive briefs</li> <li>Coverage of motion briefs, with a brief in support of a motion for summary judgment</li> </ul>

Just Briefs: Preparing for Practice (Aspen Coursebook)

Jeremy Francis

Aspen Publishing

"Introductory text on legal research, analysis, and writing"--

The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Coursebook)

The Legal Writing Handbook: Analysis, Research, and Writing (Aspen Coursebook Series)

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