Beyond the Basics: A Text for Advanced Legal Writing
- ISBN-10
- 0314242635
- ISBN-13
- 9780314242631
- Series
- Beyond the Basics
- Category
- Law / Legal Writing
- Pages
- 423
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Thomson/West
- Authors
- Mary Barnard Ray, Barbara J. Cox
Description
A selected compilation of cases designed to illustrate advanced legal writing. Chapters cover statutes or rules, jury instructions, contracts, issues, objective statements of fact, and persuasive statements of fact. Other discussion sections include research memos, argument, pleadings, notices of motion, motions, and orders, interrogatories, general correspondence, opinion letters, wills and trusts, and research papers.
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