Strategic Legal Writing

Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes.

Donald N. Zillman (Author), Evan J. Roth (Author)

9780521878739, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 January 2008

240 pages, 1 table
23.6 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm, 0.488 kg

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.

1. Prayer at the athletic banquet
2. How to draft a complaint
3. Terminating Professor Melton
4. How to draft a motion
5. Mr Blaustein's gift
6. How to respond to a motion
7. Counseling Dean Covelli
8. How to draft a judicial opinion
9. Advising Professor Melton
10. How to draft a motion for summary judgment.

Subject Areas: Jurisprudence & general issues [LA]