Writing and Analysis in the Law (Textbook) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Helene S. Shapo, Marilyn R. Walter, Elizabeth Fajans
Publisher: Foundation Press
Category: Book
List Price: $63.00
Buy Used: $3.27
You Save: $59.73 (95%)
New (15) Used (141) from $3.27
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 116438
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4 Revised
Pages: 561
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1587785412
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.06634
EAN: 9781587785412
Publication Date: September 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Fast, reliable delivery. Exceptional customer service. May contain some highlighting. Original supplements not guaranteed. Standard shipping is USPS. Expedited shipping is UPS Ground. Expedited shipping will NOT deliver to HI, AK, PR, PO Boxes, APO/FPO.
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Book Description
Writing and Analysis in the Law, Fourth Edition, is a textbook for a first-year law school course in legal writing. The author focuses on the importance of clear organization in written and oral communications. The book introduces law students to principles of research, analyzing legal authority in both case law and statues. Includes discussion on structure and persuasive techniques of effective appellate argument, both in briefs and in oral presentation. The book makes extensive use of illustrative examples and writing exercises.
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Law school made easier May 19, 2000
33 out of 35 found this review helpful
If you are a law student taking Legal Writing or an associate (summer or new) in a firm, this book will teach or refresh all the skills you need to write an effective memo or brief. The authors teach clear writing and provide actual student wrting samples to elucidate their techniques. The book is especially helpful for those who are wholly unfamiliar with legal writing, and the index and layout make it a user-friendly reference tool. Most impoprtantly, though, the book is short; it provides a comprehensive framework without flooding the reader with unnecessary or confusing information.
Required text September 17, 2005
Kabooom
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Decent book, fairly basic but gets all the points across. Not confusing like case books. Typical LARC
 Ineffective and Wordy November 13, 2007
P. Haverstock (Eden Prairie, MN USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Shapo covers all the technical elements of writing a legal memo and brief, and offers appendices with helpful samples of each. The intro/first chapter gives a very nice introduction to the structure of the US Court system, which I found very helpful as a first-year (1L) law student.
But it's all downhill from there. Shapo tries to describe how to construct the different parts of legal memos and briefs, but the given examples are sparse and often imperfect.
This book would be much more effective if it spent less time describing how to write a good document and more time showing examples of well-written briefs and memos.
 Choose a different book October 6, 2007
J
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's okay but most of the chapters are useless, unless you start reading it before you start law school. It's very elementary and the things I was really hoping for help on, it just didn't get me very far. The most useful part is it does have examples of well-written memos and briefs in the back of it and they were helpful but there's only a few.
|
|
|
