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Legal Form, Style, And Etiquette For Email, George Kuney
Legal Form, Style, And Etiquette For Email, George Kuney
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The Legal Reader: An Exposé, Michael J. Higdon
The Legal Reader: An Exposé, Michael J. Higdon
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John Steinbeck once said, “Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out the person — a real person you know, or an imagined person — and write to that one.” For legal writers, however, this advice is somewhat difficult to follow as their documents are likely to be read by many different kinds of audience members. In this Article, however, I mean to focus specifically on one particular kind of reader: the legally-trained reader or, more simply, the legal reader. After all, the majority of lawyers will find themselves communicating most often …
Effective Contract Drafting: Indentifying The Building Blocks Of Contracts, Lori D. Johnson
Effective Contract Drafting: Indentifying The Building Blocks Of Contracts, Lori D. Johnson
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Legal Writing: A Doctrinal Course, Linda H. Edwards
Legal Writing: A Doctrinal Course, Linda H. Edwards
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Legal writing instruction in American law schools has come a long way. Although scattered experiential courses and co-curricular activities have existed since legal education moved into a university setting, the modern era of skills education began in the 1950s and 1960s, with the creation of live-client clinics at many law schools. Early legal writing programs soon followed, moving into the main stream of curricular reform during the 1980s and 1990s. As these new courses and new instructors moved into the academy, the language of legal education naturally changed. Law faculties found themselves wanting to describe these new additions to the …
Across The Curriculum: Integrating Transactional Skills Instruction, Jean M. Whitney, Lori D. Johnson, Richard A. Rawson
Across The Curriculum: Integrating Transactional Skills Instruction, Jean M. Whitney, Lori D. Johnson, Richard A. Rawson
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