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Legal Writing and Analysis, Sixth Edition

• Linda H. Edwards
• Samantha A. Moppett

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions , an outline tool , and other helpful resources . Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.

Linda H. Edward and Samantha A. Moppett’s Legal Writing and Analysis, Sixth Edition , is an essential guide for legal writing students.

The Sixth Edition of Legal Writing and Analysis provides a clear guide to developing legal writing and analysis skills for novice legal writers. In a sequence that mirrors legal practice, students learn to read and analyze the law; write the analysis of a legal issue; and compose office memos, e-memos, professional correspondence, and briefs. The book introduces students to various forms of legal reasoning including rule-based, analogical, policy-based, principle-based, custom-based, inferential, and narrative, complete with exercises.   

New to the Sixth Edition:

• The discussion of e-memos has been expanded to reflect the changes in legal practice. 
• The citation chapter has been updated to conform to the rules in the new editions of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation and The Bluebook . 
• Information about the proper use of texting in legal practice has been added to the chapter on professional correspondence. 
• The chapter on writing style now includes a discussion of the proper use of they as a singular pronoun. 
• Information about Native American tribes, the third sovereign entity in the United States, has been added. 

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Down-to-earth and easy to understand presentation of first-year legal writing topics 
• Complete coverage of objective writing, persuasive writing, and professional correspondence 
• Clear explanations and concrete examples that support a range of learning styles 
• Numerous exercises that offer opportunities to develop writing skills through practice 
• Sample office memorandum, e-memo, professional correspondence, trial brief, and appellate brief conveniently located in the Appendices

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Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing 6th Edition, Kindle Edition

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The basics of legal research, analysis, and writing in a practical, relevant approach

Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing gives students the essential knowledge and tools they need to research and analyze a legal problem and communicate the results in diverse forms of legal memoranda. Covering both traditional and free Internet research, the book’s practical, relevant approach provides a number of outstanding teaching and learning aids, among them short memos with hypothetical factual situations for students to research, research and writing exercises and assignments, writing examples and exercises, online research exercises, citation exercises, numerous sample pages and screenshots, legal research problems with answers, checklists for research and writing, and an Instructor’s Manual. The Sixth Edition updates and expands many of the examples and exercises used throughout the text to give students the latest information available.

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About the author.

Joanne Banker Hames is an attorney and paralegal educator who has been actively involved in paralegal education since 1977. She is an instructor in and the former coordinator for the ABA-approved paralegal program at DeAnza Community College in Cupertino, California, as well as an adjunct instructor at Santa Clara University's School of Law. She earned her JD from Santa Clara University Law School and has been an active member of the California Bar since 1972. As an attorney, she has been involved in research and writing for legal memoranda and appellate briefs. Among the classes she teaches are Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Research Using Westlaw and Advanced Legal Research Using Lexis. She is the co-author of Civil Litigation, Introduction to Law, and Constitutional Law: Principles and Practice.

Yvonne Ekern is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Santa Clara University's School of Law and a full-time member of the Legal Analysis, Research, and Writing faculty. For seven years she was the chairperson of the West Valley College Paralegal Program (ABA approved). Prior to attending law school, she taught high school English and math in California and Missouri. She graduated from the University of Idaho School of Law in 1985. While working in criminal and family law offices, she taught part-time in several Silicon Valley paralegal programs. Among the classes she teaches are Legal Research and Writing, Advanced Legal Research and Writing, Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Research and Writing Using Lexis, and Legal Analysis. She has over 25 years' teaching experience. She is the co-author of the texts Introduction to Law, and Constitutional Law: Principles and Practice .

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• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 6th edition (January 10, 2017)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 10, 2017
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 29011 KB
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• Print length ‏ : ‎ 576 pages
• #12 in Law Practice Research (Kindle Store)
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Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing | 5th Edition

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Prepare future paralegals for careers in law with Putman/Albright's popular LEGAL RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING, 5E. This reader-friendly, step-by-step approach introduces traditional and technology-driven research, analysis and writing. Each chapter walks students through the legal processes dealing with key facts and issue spotting, analysis and counter-analysis, research, secondary authorities and citations. Students also master strong legal writing techniques for briefs and memoranda. Updates address the rapidly growing field of digital legal research and highlight reliable commercial and public legal research sites. Each chapter begins with a hypothetical scenario and ends by applying the chapter’s concepts to the opening scenario. The latest examples, exercises, Practice Alerts and Cengage Infuse digital resources all reinforce skills to help paralegals stand out in today’s tech-driven job market – whether they’re taking your course in-person or online.