Product Description

<p> The <b>Legal Writing Practice Book</b> is the ideal accompaniment to the <i> Legal Writing Handbook</i>. This comprehensive supplement contains: </p> <ul> <li> <b>hundreds of class-tested exercises</b> to help students practice their skills while reinforcing their understanding of the material </li> <li> an <b>accessible format</b> with perforated pages that make it easy to use for both class assignments and individual study </li> <li> an <b>answer key</b> for all the exercises cross-referenced to <i>The Legal Writing Handbook, Fourth Edition</i>, including short explanations about why a given answer is recommended </li> <li> <b>new exercises</b> for English as a second language </li> </ul> <p> Key topics covered in the <b>Legal Writing Practice Book</b> include: </p> <ul> <li> paragraph length </li> <li> topic and concluding sentences </li> <li> active/passive voices </li> <li> transitions </li> <li> creating emphasis </li> <li> conciseness </li> <li> fragments </li> <li> grammar </li> <li> punctuation </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #498878 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

An Immense Help to Any Lawyer and Law Student!
Oates, Enquist, and Kunsch have published the third edition of The Legal Writing Handbook, one of the most comprehensive legal writing books available today. This book speaks powerfully about the entire legal writing process. There is a definite art and science to crafting legal documents and this book provides the detailed instruction necessary for legal professionals and law students to produce truly outstanding work.

Readers are briefly introduced to the American legal system in terms of government and court history, responsibilities, accountability, and the nature of both common and enacted laws. Then comes the real meat - performing legal research and analysis, making use of available printed and online resources, learning sound legal grammar, and instruction for crafting a variety of professional legal documents that lawyers write most often - legal advice memos, client letters, motion briefs, and appellate briefs.

The book is very helpful in terms of crafting legal documents. Readers will quickly pick up on how to select the right words and how to effectively structure their thoughts. Like the work of a sculptor or clay modeler, legal documents should be crafted in such a way as to convey the right message to the right people. Through a variety of gripping written examples the reader will learn just how important it is to devote quality time and to give serious thought to the legal writing process.

The book reveals in no uncertain terms that there are definite strategies involved in crafting legal documents. Whether one is an attorney for a plaintiff or defendant, a law enforcement officer, or prosecutor, the outcome of court cases can hinge on one's writing skills. One revelation from the book that will hit readers hard is that clever legal document writers can act unethically by crafting their legal documents in such a way as to distort the truth to get guilty people off. Likewise, there is the possibility of trying to convict totally innocent people. An innocent person can be made to appear quite guilty of a crime by cleverly crafting such documents. Certain facts can be emphasized or de-emphasized, mis-truths can be implied through the clever use of wording and structuring, and so on, to cast particular people in poor light. Readers will find utterly amazing - and perhaps a bit frightening - how opposing parties can take the same set of facts and circumstances and craft two entirely different perspectives involving the same case matter!

Readers are also introduced to the many types of helpful and essential legal research resources available to them - online court decisions and statues, online information brokering services, law dictionaries and encyclopedias, law reviews, and general practice books - all of which will greatly contribute to the legal writing process.

This book will be of immense help to any lawyer and law student desiring to develop their legal writing skills - or to polish up their existing ones. They will be introduced to a number of essential research and writing resources, they will be exposed to expert writing instruction and numerous legal documents, and they learn how to best represent their clients in legal matters. This is must reading for lawyers, law school students, and other legal professionals!

misrepresentation
another false claim by amazon, since I clicked on the so-called one click option, today, september 11 and the delivery dates says sept 18-21. Is that a two day option? your company either cannot count or misleads the customer

Never Received My Book
I ordered my Legal Writing Book for law school on June 2nd. It was suppose to ship from Auburn, WA on June 4th to a business in Tacoma, WA. I never received the book. I had to wait until June 25th, before they would do anything for me, since they did not use a tracking number and kept insisting it might still be in transit. I was very disappointed and hated that they couldn't help me until the 21 days mark. Luckily, I was able to use a friends book in the mean time. I was able to get my money back with no hassle. It took about 5 days to show up in my account.