Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adversarial legal writing -- Rhetoric and Advocacy -- Narrativity and Storytelling -- Synthesis and Advanced Legal Writing -- Advanced Argumentation: Introductions, Facts, Arguments, and Conclusions -- Advanced Argumentation: Making Specific Types of Arguments Involving Statutory Interpretation, Public Policy, Social Science, or a Change in the Law -- Pretrial motions -- Motions to dismiss -- Motions for summary judgment -- Client Interviewing: Negotiation, Mediation, and Dispute Resolution -- Appellate advocacy: appeals, writs, and standards of review -- Appellate briefs -- Oral advocacy at the pretrial, trial, and appellate stages -- Strategies for moot court and beyond.