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A "Case" Study In Legal Writing Pedagogy: Connecting Doctrine And Skills To Authentic Client Voices, Becky Jacobs
A "Case" Study In Legal Writing Pedagogy: Connecting Doctrine And Skills To Authentic Client Voices, Becky Jacobs
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
Legal writing faculty have too little time to teach too many skills. To choices of deciding which skills to teach, how to teach those skills, and how much time to allocate to each skill." This brief essay will discuss one case, Epps v. Gober, that two instructors have found to be a veritable Swiss Army knife (nod to Tracy McGaugh), offering a range of versatile functions in the legal writing classroom.
The Legal Reader: An Expose, Michael Higdon
The Legal Reader: An Expose, Michael Higdon
College of Law Faculty Scholarship
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 …