Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes features a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach with wide-ranging practical applications. Seven real-life case studies and numerous examples have
Wills, Trusts, and Estates in Context offers law school professors and students an accessible, student-friendly coursebook with narrative exposition, replete with significant caches of examples before
Applying the perspective of the reader to the craft of writing, Legal Writing for Legal Readers: Predictive Writing for First-Year Students teaches the differences between strong and weak legal writin
Mary Beth Beazley’s highly regarded A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy is a comprehensive student-focused guide to writing appellate briefs. Written in an understandable, direct writing style, th
This widely-adopted, all-original book was the first in the field to combine complete analysis of the mediation process with integrated video case studies illustrating the full range of mediation skil
The only offering of its kind, Negotiating Business Transactions: An Extended Simulation Course contains facts and contextual materials, negotiating instructions for each side, and background readings
This textbook offers concise guidance on how to become a successful judicial writer using common judicial documents, including bench memos, trial court orders, jury instructions, appellate opinions, d
By far the most thorough and detailed of the books in the field, Trial Techniques and Trials, Tenth Edition is a comprehensive yet concise handbook that covers all aspects of the trial process and pro
Persuasive Writing: A Storytelling Approach teaches students how to write effective motion briefs, and other types of non-adversarial persuasive writing by threading a narrative or “storytelling” them
Pretrial Advocay: Planning, Analysis, and Strategy, Fifth Edition provides an excellent conceptual and practical foundation for pretrial litigation for both teachers and students. Pretrial Advocay cov
Focusing on written communications with supervising attorneys, the author applies mindfulness to legal writing, showing law students how to slow down their pace to allow time to think and approach leg
Persuasive Legal Writing offers complete instruction, exercises, and examples to teach students how to frame and assert arguments. Starting with an introduction to classical rhetorical devices and the
Legal Writing from the Ground Up: Process, Principles, and Possibilities breaks down legal writing into a step-by-step process but avoids a one-size-fits-all approach. This book helps legal writing pr
With a practical focus on persuasive writing strategies, Advanced Legal Writing: Theory and Strategies in Persuasive Writing explores three classical techniques: logos, pathos, and ethos, and provides
Sheppard (law, Mercer U.) provides advice to prospective judicial clerks (and unpaid externs performing essentially the same tasks) on the basics of what they will be expected to know and do while wor
Appropriate for a one or two term course on the structures of the American judicial system, this volume for foreign law students provides an exploration of the foundational principles of the American
Donahoe (legal research and writing, Georgetown U. Law Center) uses an experiential learning approach to instruct students on sources, strategies and citation in legal research. She aims to actively e
Donahoe (legal research and writing, Georgetown U. Law Center) teaches students to become effective writers using a pedagogy that actively engages them in the learning process through problem-based si
Now in its 5th edition, this concise guide to legal writing offers law students advice and style techniques which will enrich the skills learned in a first-year writing course. Following a review of t
Payne (Northwestern U. School of Law) challenges students to draft purchase and service agreements for an artist, a professional golfer, a rock band, and a toy inventor. The four narrative sequences p
In this path-breaking book, three property law experts show how to seamlessly integrate historical and contemporary issues of race and ethnicity into a property syllabus alongside the casebook. Showin
