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An Offer They Can’T Refuse: Teaching Persuasive Writing Through A Settlement Offer Email Assignment, Alyssa Dragnich, Rachel H. Smith Oct 2014

An Offer They Can’T Refuse: Teaching Persuasive Writing Through A Settlement Offer Email Assignment, Alyssa Dragnich, Rachel H. Smith

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Do you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar? Our first-year legal writing students had to confront this question as part of a new assignment we introduced in the spring of 2014 that required them to write an email settlement offer to opposing counsel. This assignment fit easily into our trial and appellate brief assignments, allowed students to learn about persuasive writing in a new format, and helped students experience a bit of the creativity of law practice.

At Miami Law, we follow a fairly traditional model for a two-semester legal writing curriculum. In the fall, students learn …


Cases On Federal Jurisdiction And Procedure (Book Review), Frederick A. Whitney Jun 2014

Cases On Federal Jurisdiction And Procedure (Book Review), Frederick A. Whitney

St. John's Law Review

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Handbook On The Conflict Of Laws (Book Review), N. William Welling Jun 2014

Handbook On The Conflict Of Laws (Book Review), N. William Welling

St. John's Law Review

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Cases On Code Pleading (Book Review), James B. M. Mcnally Jun 2014

Cases On Code Pleading (Book Review), James B. M. Mcnally

St. John's Law Review

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Cases On Federal Taxation (Book Review), Maurice Finkelstein Jun 2014

Cases On Federal Taxation (Book Review), Maurice Finkelstein

St. John's Law Review

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Banks And Banking--Principal And Agent (Cahan V. Empire Trust Co., 9 F.2d 713 (2nd Cir. 1926)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Banks And Banking--Principal And Agent (Cahan V. Empire Trust Co., 9 F.2d 713 (2nd Cir. 1926)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Injunctions--Strikes In Interstate Commerce (Bedford Cut Stone Co. V. Journeymen Stone Cutters' Asso. Of North America, 71 L.Ed. 581 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Injunctions--Strikes In Interstate Commerce (Bedford Cut Stone Co. V. Journeymen Stone Cutters' Asso. Of North America, 71 L.Ed. 581 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Constitutional Law (Tyson V. Banton, 47 S.Ct. 426 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Constitutional Law (Tyson V. Banton, 47 S.Ct. 426 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Criminal Law--Larceny (People V. Noblett, 244 N.Y. 355 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Criminal Law--Larceny (People V. Noblett, 244 N.Y. 355 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Equity--Oral Agreement To Buy Property And Hold For Mortgagor (Tchula Commercial Co. Et Al. V. Jackson, 111 S. 874 (Miss. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Equity--Oral Agreement To Buy Property And Hold For Mortgagor (Tchula Commercial Co. Et Al. V. Jackson, 111 S. 874 (Miss. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Specific Performance--Equitable Jurisdiction (Bockler V. Wurfel Et Al., 254 P. 353 (Or. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Specific Performance--Equitable Jurisdiction (Bockler V. Wurfel Et Al., 254 P. 353 (Or. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Parent And Child--Negligence (Wick V. Wick, 212 N.W. 787 (Wisc. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Parent And Child--Negligence (Wick V. Wick, 212 N.W. 787 (Wisc. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Criminal Law--Homicide--Intoxication As A Defense (People V. Koerber, 244 N.Y. 147 (1926)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Criminal Law--Homicide--Intoxication As A Defense (People V. Koerber, 244 N.Y. 147 (1926)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Federal Courts--Comity (Andrus V. Hutchinson, 17 F.2d 472 (5th Cir. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Federal Courts--Comity (Andrus V. Hutchinson, 17 F.2d 472 (5th Cir. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Municipal Corporations--Ultra Vires Acts--Highway Law Sec. 282e As Affecting Liability For Ultra Vires Acts (Downing V. City Of New York, 219 A.D. 444 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Municipal Corporations--Ultra Vires Acts--Highway Law Sec. 282e As Affecting Liability For Ultra Vires Acts (Downing V. City Of New York, 219 A.D. 444 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Domestic Relations--Annulment Of Marriage--Insanity--Who May Avoid (Hoadley V. Hoadley, 244 N.Y. 424 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Domestic Relations--Annulment Of Marriage--Insanity--Who May Avoid (Hoadley V. Hoadley, 244 N.Y. 424 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Mandamus--Judicial Officers--Condemnation Proceedings (State Ex Rel. Dabney, Atty. Gen. V. Johnson, District Judge, 254 P. 61 (Okla. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Mandamus--Judicial Officers--Condemnation Proceedings (State Ex Rel. Dabney, Atty. Gen. V. Johnson, District Judge, 254 P. 61 (Okla. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Sales--Election Of Remedies--Rights Of Parties (Murry V. Mcdonald, 212 N.W. 711 (Iowa 1927), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Sales--Election Of Remedies--Rights Of Parties (Murry V. Mcdonald, 212 N.W. 711 (Iowa 1927), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Highway Law--Section 282e As Affecting Common Law Liability Of Owner Of Motor Vehicle (Fluegel V. Coudert, 244 N.Y. 392 (1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Highway Law--Section 282e As Affecting Common Law Liability Of Owner Of Motor Vehicle (Fluegel V. Coudert, 244 N.Y. 392 (1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Specific Performance--Attorney's Knowledge Imputed To Client (Hodes V. Foster Et Al., 155 N.E. 762 (Ill. 1927)), St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Specific Performance--Attorney's Knowledge Imputed To Client (Hodes V. Foster Et Al., 155 N.E. 762 (Ill. 1927)), St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Dower In Equitable Estates, St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Dower In Equitable Estates, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Further Development Of The Doctrine Of Duplex V. Deering, St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Further Development Of The Doctrine Of Duplex V. Deering, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Larceny Generically, And The Office Of A Bill Of Particulars In Respect To An Indictment, St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Larceny Generically, And The Office Of A Bill Of Particulars In Respect To An Indictment, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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The Constitutionality Of Asexualization Legislation In The United States, Jacob Broches Aronoff Jun 2014

The Constitutionality Of Asexualization Legislation In The United States, Jacob Broches Aronoff

St. John's Law Review

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Declaratory Judgments In New York, Louis S. Posner Jun 2014

Declaratory Judgments In New York, Louis S. Posner

St. John's Law Review

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Credit Bureau Functions Of Trade Associations: The Legal Aspects, David L. Podell, Benjamin S. Kirsh Jun 2014

Credit Bureau Functions Of Trade Associations: The Legal Aspects, David L. Podell, Benjamin S. Kirsh

St. John's Law Review

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Books Received, St. John's Law Review Jun 2014

Books Received, St. John's Law Review

St. John's Law Review

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Handbook Of American Constitutional Law (Book Review), William Tapley Jun 2014

Handbook Of American Constitutional Law (Book Review), William Tapley

St. John's Law Review

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Outlines Of The Law Of Torts (Book Review), Maurice Finkelstein Jun 2014

Outlines Of The Law Of Torts (Book Review), Maurice Finkelstein

St. John's Law Review

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Handbook Of Federal Jurisdiction And Procedure (Book Review), H. H. Breland Jun 2014

Handbook Of Federal Jurisdiction And Procedure (Book Review), H. H. Breland

St. John's Law Review

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