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Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing Structure, Strategy, and Style
Binding: Paperback
Label: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
Studio: Aspen Publishers, Inc.
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Rating:  - Good for first semester, lacking for second semester
This is a well-written guide for a first year law student in their first semester of legal writing. It goes into great detail on writing one's first memorandum, with sections on researching, writing the memo, and a paradigm for how to construct a proof of a conclusion of law. However, once I got to writing my first appellate brief, I found that the book devotes a mere 16 pages to actual writing of the brief. This was extremely lacking and provided very little useful guidance as to this important ... Read More
Rating:  - Much great information and well written ( you might expect)
I guess you might expect a 5th edition book on reasoning and writing style to be well written! It is. Designed for 1st year law students, I got it becaause I am not an attny but spend a lot of time reading federal manuals and regulations with a lot of legal reaaoning beneath them, and then interpreting them and writing guidance to what they mean. Also i work in a field where cases regularly go to administrative law judges or where I get decisons back from them, and I also try to act in coordination ... Read More
Rating: - Excellant Introduction to legal writing style
The text focuses on constructing proof of a conclusion of law and teaches format, style, and grammar collaterally. The goal is to help students learn how to make the
kind of writing decisions that center on the need to prove analysis. Most students have substantial difficulties learning how to construct proof. If format and style
receive primary emphasis, the problem is compounded because the student is invited to mimic the customary appearance of a document, rather than to think through its ... Read More
Rating: - Get Mr. Neumann's Book!
I got this book from the law library at school and I am going to buy Mr. Neumann's 2002 edition if there is one.
This is a good book to have for Law School!
I have read many pre-law books. This book explains so much in just two short concisely written chapters. I do have one small complaint the title of this book is wrong, this book covers so much more!
This book is an introduction to law, it explains and provides a general overview of the civil procedure process and goes ... Read More
Rating: - American Law the Essence of Persuasive Writing
Mr. Newmann, Jr., the author, has captured the essential ingredients of American Common-Law, from it's heritage, rule analysis, and sources of law to it's practical application using lawyerly persuasion with words. Presented is a practical, logical, and understandable book format that supports the applied art of legal interpreting, reasoning, persuasive writing. This book is a must-have for all who desire to analyze facts with rules and then create persuasive or predictive legal written results in legal ... Read More
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