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A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis (2nd Edition) – eBook

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  • Authors: Christine Coughlin, Sandy Patrick, Joan M. Rocklin
  • File Size: 5 MB, 4 MB
  • Format: PDF (converted), MOBI (original)
  • Length: 503 pages
  • Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
  • Publishing Date: June 19, 2013
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0748SXK84
  • ISBN-10: 1611633974
  • ISBN-13: 9781611633979

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Author(s)

Christine Coughlin

Christine Coughlin

Dr. Christine Nero Coughlin is a Professor of Legal Analysis, Writing, and Research at the Wake Forest University School of Law. She is a multiple-award-winning teacher, recognized for both her scholarship and teaching. She is the recipient of the 2017 Mary S. Lawrence Award from the Legal Writing Institute, the Joseph Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Teaching Innovation Award, and a multi-year recipient of the Graham Award for Excellence in Teaching Legal Research and Writing.

Joan Malmud Rocklin

Joan Malmud Rocklin

Professor Joan Rocklin got her undergraduate degree from Williams College and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of law, serving as an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and graduating Order of the Coif. Joan clerked for Senior Judge William Schwarzer, working on cases from the Third Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the Northern District of California. Afterward, she returned to her home state of New York, working in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

She is also the co-author of two best-selling textbooks: An Advocate Persuades and A Lawyer Writes. The textbooks introduce college students to the fundamental analytical and writing skills that the students will need when they begin practicing law. Law students have been known to become unusually attached to the textbooks, bringing them not only to their legal writing classrooms, but also to their summer jobs, to their clinics and externships, and to their first full-time jobs as lawyers.

Sandy Patrick

Sandy Patrick

Professor Sandy C. Patrick is a Professor of Lawyering at the Lewis & Clark Law School. Ms. Patrick earned her JD from the University of Tennessee School of Law.  After her clerkship, she practiced law in Tennessee as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Appeals and Death Penalty Division, then she went into private practice with the international law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), working primarily in corporate and civil litigation, while also teaching undergraduate law classes at a private university.

Sandy has taught Lawyering and upper-division legal writing courses at Lewis & Clark since 2001. She has also served as the school’s Writing Specialist. Professor Patrick has co-authored two textbooks, An Advocate Persuades and A Lawyer Writes. These textbooks teach law students foundational concepts of legal analysis, critical reading, and communication of that analysis for both predictive and persuasive legal documents.

Like the very popular 1st edition, this ebook A Lawyer Writes: A Practical Guide to Legal Analysis 2nd edition (PDF/MOBI) puts the reader in the place of a first-year attorney/lawyer faced with real-life assignments. In doing so, it teaches law students not only how to succeed in law school, but also how to succeed in the practice of law. Using visual samples and graphics, the ebook shows best practices in both electronic and traditional environments. Speaking to its readers in a straightforward manner, A Lawyer Writes 2e communicates essential skills and theories so that they will be retained for a lifetime of legal practice.

There are two significant changes in the 2nd edition of A Lawyer Writes. First, 2 new chapters have been added: Chapter 17, Client Letters, and Chapter 19, The Transition from Objective to Persuasive Writing. (What was Chapter 17, Professional E-mails, will appear as Chapter 18.) In addition, section 8.3, Applying the Law: Counter Analyses, has been re-organized, but the content has remained the same. All other updates to the book are smaller edits that create consistency, fix errors, or further clarify an existing idea.

Reviews

“A Lawyer Writes 2e is the perfect ebook for the first semester of Legal Writing. It explains the foundations of legal reasoning, illustrates those foundations with practical examples, and is an exemplary model of its own lessons about good legal writing.” — Steve Johansen, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School

“One of the best parts of A Lawyer Writes 2nd edition is its chapter explaining rules. After my students read that chapter, they really seemed to understand the concept that rules can be stated implicitly in the cases, and that it was their job to make those rules explicit for their readers. The book also provides a number of excellent, easy-to-understand examples in every chapter, which the students found very helpful.” — Alison Julien, Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Marquette University Law School

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About the Authors

Sandy Patrick is a Professor of Legal Analysis and Writing at Lewis & Clark Law School.

Christine Coughlin is Director of Legal Analysis, Research & Writing and a Professor of Legal Writing at Wake Forest University School of Law.

Joan Rocklin is a Legal Research and Writing Senior Lecturer and Director of Externships and Clinics at the University of Oregon School of Law.

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