This book teaches new lawyers how to effectively make and oppose motions and help experienced lawyers create more original and innovative work. It teaches the basics of motion practice, with a particular focus on the written motion and provides expert advice on making motions more persuasive. It discusses the tools of persuasion and the marshaling of facts, law and form to produce a winning motion. Instead of merely laying out the rules, the book outlines the analysis that the lawyer must make in writing and presenting a motion.
This comprehensive guide not only analyzes every applicable rule of civil procedure, but also gives you practice-proven techniques for evaluating what motions will work most effectively in each of your cases.
This brand new edition includes all new illustrations and new information on motions, arbitrations, and appeals.
This effective text offers in-depth and detailed coverage of appellate practice as well as trial court motions practice.
With straightforward advice, informative graphics, and an accessible layout, this text will be useful both to students in the classroom and to lawyers already in legal practice. A teaching website for this book is available.
In Point Well Made: Oral Advocacy in Motion Practice, Indiana Court of Appeals Chief Judge Nancy Vaidik and legal international communications coach Rebecca Diaz-Bonilla help get you there, with their invaluable perspectives from both on ...
In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application.
Examples make the advice concrete rather than abstract. The book provides extensive review and citation of advice from judges and practitioners. Organization permits teachers to select material as appropriate for class needs.
The Persuasive Edge is a must for every trial lawyer, teacher and student of law or communication, and anyone else whose practice or profession depends on human persuasion"--Provided by publisher.
The focus of the book is on analogical reasoning in first section and persuasive writing techniques in the second section. Also, each topic is discussed in logical order with every chapter building on that which preceded it.
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