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Reading Like A Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies For Reading Law Like An Expert Ruth Ann McKinney The ability to read law well is a critical, indispensable skill that can make or break the academic career of any aspiring lawyer. Fortunately, the ability to read law well (quickly and accurately) is a skill that can be acquired through knowledge and practice. The sooner the student masters these skills, the greater the rewards. Using seven specific reading strategies, reinforced with hands-on exercises at the end of each chapter, this book shows students how they can read law efficiently, effectively, powerfully, and confidently. Reading Like a Lawyer is divided into 3 parts: * Part I introduces the reader to the fundamentals of legal reasoning upon which law-based reading builds; * Part II introduces the reader to concrete strategies for reading effectively in law school; * and Part III teaches strategies for reading law outside of the law school context. |
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Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do Tina L. Stark A perfect fit for the upper-level legal drafting course, Drafting Contracts: How and Why Lawyers Do What They Do teaches the key practices of contract drafting, with particular emphasis on how to incorporate the business deal into the contract and add value to the client¿s deal. By providing many solid examples of quality writing, the book helps students to master the basics and to incorporate similar techniques into their own drafting. This text is also appropriate for use in transactional simulation courses, transactional clinics, advanced writing courses, first-year writing courses, first year-contracts courses, and interviewing, negotiating, and counseling courses. Many great features ensure the value and reliability of this text: - PART I: introduces the building blocks of contracts and teaches the analytic skill of ¿translating the business deal into contract concepts¿ so that students learn how and why a drafter chooses a specific contract concept
- PART II: sets out the framework of an agreement and works through it from the preamble to the signature lines, discussing the business, legal, and drafting issues that occur in each part of a contract
- PART III: turns to drafting rules for good writing and to techniques for enhancing clarity and avoiding ambiguity
- PART IV: details how to look at the contract from the client¿s perspective¿what does the client want to achieve and what risks does it want to avoid¿in order to find and resolve business issues
- PART V: shows students how to integrate everything they have learned: how to organize a contract, how to use precedents, and how to review and comment on a contract
- PART VI: addresses ethical issues that arise in drafting
- PART VII: provides additional exercises
- presents a five-prong framework for considering business issues that appear in almost every transaction: money, risk, control, standards, and endgame (Chapter 17, ¿Adding Value to the Deal¿)
- includes plentiful examples of well-drafted provisions, many based on commercial agreements
- provides exercises for use in or out of class, individually or collaboratively, including contract mark-ups, new drafting, and both combined into a single exercise
- integrates a single fact pattern throughout many exercises in the book¿the purchase of a jet by a ne¿er-do-well with significant financial problems¿and varying fact patterns relating to employment relationships and to assignment and delegation provisions.
- accompanied by a Teacher¿s Manual that includes notes explaining the answers to each exercise and answers to questions that students commonly ask.
- also accompanied by a website that provides all mark-up exercises that can be projected and walked through during class, a template for formatting, and multiple versions of one of the culminating exercises so that professors can use the version best suited to their classes
An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at http://www.aspenlawschool.com/stark |
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Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies Amy E. Sloan With so many texts available for legal research courses, how does Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies maintain its best-selling status? By concentrating on fundamental skills and offering premium teaching support for professors and students. Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, leads the field with: - accessible, clear, step-by-step instruction on the basics of legal research
- a building-block approach that breaks the material into discrete, easily digested parts
- self-contained chapters on research sources that can easily adapt to a variety of teaching objectives
- organization within each chapter that allows professors to choose how much emphasis to place on print and electronic research
- helpful end-of-chapter checklists, clear examples, and summary charts that support comprehension and memory
- sample pages and examples of research sources throughout
- a preview of what students will encounter in practice
Updated and revised, the Fourth Edition offers - updated research materials and instruction
- increased focus on electronic research to maintain the right balance of print and electronic coverage
- new print sample pages and electronic screen shots
- Comprehensive coverage, a proven methodology for learning, and generous teaching support that's what makes Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies a leading text in its field.
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Black's Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition, 4th Bryan A. Garner Considered the most valuable reference tool available to the legal community, Black's Pocket Dictionary provides more than 13,000 clear, concise, and precise definitions. The essential companion dictionary to the Standard edition and as a stand-alone tool, Black's Pocket Dictionary also includes a dictionary guide and the complete U.S. Constitution. Black's is cited by judges and lawyers more than any other legal dictionary, comes recommended by law faculty, and is available in the pocket format and a variety of other useful editions. |
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Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology Michael G. Maxfield, Earl R. Babbie A brief text based on Maxfield/Babbie's best-selling, RESEARCH METHODS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIMINOLOGY, Fourth Edition, this "basics edition" combines accessibility and a conversational writing-style with Michael G. Maxfield's expertise in criminology and criminal justice. In just 12 chapters the text features criminal justice examples of methodology in the field and utilizes real data. This basics edition also includes coverage of ethics, causation, validity, and research design, especially in the discussion of field research. |
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Legal Writing & Analysis, 3rd Edition (Aspen Coursebook) Linda Holdeman Edwards This concise text offers a straightforward guide to developing legal writing and analysis skills for beginning legal writers. Legal Writing and Analysis, Third Edition, leads students logically through reading and analyzing the law, writing the discussion of a legal question, writing an office memo and professional letters. The author then focuses on writing for advocacy and concludes with style and formalities and a chapter devoted to oral argument. The Third Edition features new material throughout on drawing factual inferences, one of the most important kinds of reasoning for legal writers, as well as additional examples on the book s companion web site. Among the features that make Legal Writing and Analysis a best-selling text : |
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Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology Michael G. Maxfield, Earl Robert Babbie This volume explores research methods for criminal justice and criminology. Topics covered include: crime, criminal justice and scientific inquiry; theory and criminal justice research; causation and validity; and general issues in research design. |
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The Process of Legal Research Christina L. Kunz, Deborah A. Schmedemann, Ann Bateson, Mehmet Konar-Steenberg, Matthew P. Downs With a proven-effective process approach that has made this book a continual best seller, The Process of Legal Research, Seventh Edition, offers comprehensive coverage in a format that is pedagogically rich, meaningfully organized, and surprisingly concise.
Written and organized to explain and show the process of Legal Research, The Process of Legal Research, Seventh Edition, includes:
a thorough introduction to the process of Legal Research
extensive illustrations and examples
one continuous in-text example that illustrates how to research a complex problem
a focus on best-research practices how to choose the most appropriate source and media for various types of inquiries
integrated coverage of electronic research
extensive, well-researched problem sets on a CD included with the book
With updated sources throughout, the Seventh Edition features:
expanded coverage of non-Lexis/Westlaw on-line sources
chapter-by-chapter templates for each type of research
an updated and streamlined continuous research problem, with some explanatory material moved to sidebars
enhanced discussion of the links between legal research and legal analysis
a new author website that offers research tutorials
This long-time leader in the field shows no signs of slowing down. Examine your complimentary copy to find out why The Process of Legal Research, now in its Seventh Edition, leads the pack.
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West's Business Law, Alternate Edition (with Online Legal Research Guide) Gaylord A. Jentz, Roger LeRoy Miller, Frank B. Cross Based on the best-selling WEST'S BUSINESS LAW, this Alternate Edition continues to set the standard for making law accessible, interesting, and relevant to business students. With the perfect balance of tradition and innovation, this benchmark text brings to life the functions and inner-workings of business law in the real world. Rich with classic and modern cases that are summarized rather than excerpted, WEST'S BUSINESS LAW is the ideal text for students entering virtually any field of business. The text is supported by a comprehensive supplements and technology package. The text's proven approach combines with these resources to create a total teaching and learning system that is a clear choice for instructors who want to use summarized cases. This Tenth Edition refines and builds upon traditions established when the book was first introduced: authoritative content blended with cutting-edge coverage of contemporary topics and cases and an unmatched selection of innovative, high-quality support materials. |
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Legal Method and Writing (Legal Research and Writing) Charles R. Calleros Known and respected for its broad coverage and sharp focus on the needs of first-year law students, LEGAL METHOD AND WRITING has been fine tuned and updated for its Fifth Edition. This sophisticated yet accessible book: takes a comprehensive and practical approach to teaching writing and analysis skills anchors basic skills to familiar examples -- many drawn from contracts and torts -- and ties them to interesting cases covers different types of legal writing, including writing in law school, writing in the law office, advocacy writing, appellate brief, pretrial advocacy, and writing to parties, as well as pleadings, motions, contracts, letters, case briefs, course outlines, and examination essay answers is highly regarded for its effectiveness in teaching students to apply legal reasoning skills to professional writing tasks includes multicultural issues in problems and examples gives students an opportunity to sharpen their skills through practical exercises is accompanied by a comprehensive Teacher¿s Manual that gives advice on how to use the book in a variety of course configurations Be sure to notice that the Fifth Edition features: discussion of new developments and new examples to refine and improve existing material skillful editing of assignments in the appendices and the coverage of exam writing to control the length of the book updated citation coverage to correspond to the new editions of the Bluebook and ALWD Please visit the new companion website to learn more about this book. Website: http://www.aspenlawschool.com/calleros5 |