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)

9780521703437, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 January 2008

240 pages, 1 table
22.6 x 15.4 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 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]