Legal writing and law
Rule-based reasoning
Issues, facts, precedents and statutes
Predictive writing
Inside the writing process
More about writing
Selecting authority
Working with statutes
Working with precedent
Working with facts
A paradigm for organizing proof of a conclusion of law
Varying the depth of rule proof and rule application
Combining proofs of separate conclusions of law
Working with the paradigm
Interviewing the client
Office memoranda
Email communication
Oral presentations to your supervising lawyer
Client advice letters
Paragraphing
Effective style
Quotations
Introduction to motions and appeals
Developing a persuasive theory of the case
Telling your client's story in a statement of the case (or facts)
Developing persuasive arguments
Handling the procedural posture
Motion memoranda
Appellate practice
Point headings and subheadings
Questions presented
Oral argument.