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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822375103321

Autore

Zillman Donald N.

Titolo

Strategic legal writing / / Donald Norman Zillman, Evan J. Roth [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-107-18352-9

0-511-64539-2

9786612389962

1-282-38996-3

0-511-64948-7

0-511-39184-6

0-511-57402-9

0-511-61961-8

0-511-39315-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

808/.06634

Soggetti

Legal composition

Law - United States - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prayer at the athletic banquet -- How to draft a complaint -- Terminating Professor Melton -- How to draft a motion -- Mr. Blaustein's gift -- How to respond to a motion -- Counseling Dean Covelli -- How to draft a judicial opinion -- Advising Professor Melton -- How to draft a motion for summary judgment.

Sommario/riassunto

Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes. Every chapter challenges the reader to write to achieve a strategic objective. Each assignment has been carefully considered by the authors, and fully vetted to simulate the decision-making involved in the preparation of important legal writing, whether in a general counsel's office, a law office, a government attorney's office, or a judge's chambers. Simply put, the authors' approach is that effective legal writing does not exist in a



vacuum. This book provides practical assignments that teach the student that the best legal writing is not an end in itself, but a means to a larger strategic objective.