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Legal method and writing / Charles R. Calleros, Professor of Law, Arizona State University; Kimberly Y.W. Holst, Clincial Professor of Law, Arizona State University.

By: Calleros, Charles R [author.].
Contributor(s): Holst, Kimberly Y.W [author.].
Series: Aspen coursebook series.Publisher: New York : Wolters Kluwer, ©2022Edition: Ninth edition.Description: 588 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781543849516.Subject(s): Legal composition | Law -- United States -- MethodologyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
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 -- The office memorandum of law -- Organization of office memoranda and briefs -- Legal writing style in the office memorandum -- Signaling, presenting, and quoting authority -- Advocacy : overview and ethics -- Developing your legal arguments -- Expressing your advocacy : persuasive writing style and oral argument -- Pleadings and motions to dismiss -- Motion for summary judgment -- Motion to exclude evidence before trial -- Standards of appellate review -- The brief-effective appellate advocacy -- Contracts -- Advice letters -- Demand letters.
Summary: "A comprehensive text covering both objective and persuasive writing components of the first-year Legal Writing law school course"--
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Includes index.

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 -- The office memorandum of law -- Organization of office memoranda and briefs -- Legal writing style in the office memorandum -- Signaling, presenting, and quoting authority -- Advocacy : overview and ethics -- Developing your legal arguments -- Expressing your advocacy : persuasive writing style and oral argument -- Pleadings and motions to dismiss -- Motion for summary judgment -- Motion to exclude evidence before trial -- Standards of appellate review -- The brief-effective appellate advocacy -- Contracts -- Advice letters -- Demand letters.

"A comprehensive text covering both objective and persuasive writing components of the first-year Legal Writing law school course"--

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