Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Orally presentations to your supervising lawyers -- 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.

"This is an introductory text on legal writing and reasoning"--