UBC Press, 2017. — 320 p. The New Lawyer, Second Edition, analyzes the profound impact changes in client needs and demands are having on how law is practised. Most legal clients are unwilling or unable to pay for protracted litigation and count on their lawyers to pursue just and expedient resolution. These clients are transforming the role of lawyers, the nature of client...
Scarlet Oak Press, 2019. — 224 р. Have happier clients. Get better results. Make more money. You can have a more efficient and profitable law practice by being a better manager of your clients, cases, and practice. When we are disorganized, we waste time and resources. Stop Putting Out Fires will help you build a more productive practice by focusing on three areas: Have happier...
New York University Press, 2016. — 340 p. Identifies and evaluates the psychological choices implicit in the rules of evidence Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. In pursuit of these often-conflicting goals, common law judges and modern drafting committees...
Routledge, 2023. — 345 p. This is a complete and comprehensive guide for applicants sitting the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT) examination. As a one-stop solution to performing well in the LNAT, this guide comes with tips, strategies, full practice papers, and answers with detailed explanations. Compiled by a team of LNAT mentors, consultants, and coaches with input...
Legal Greenhouse Publishing, 2016. — 128 p. Take the mystery and fear out of dealing with lawyers! *Is your lawyer more interested in taking your money than solving your legal problems?*Does your lawyer forget everything you tell him/her at court?*Is your lawyer unable to give straightforward, simple answers to any question?Stop feeling powerless and at the mercy of lawyers! In...
Wehle Books, 2021. — 128 p. A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives—whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare. Lawyers aren't like other people. They often argue points that are best left alone or look for mistakes in menus "just because." While their scrupulous attention...
Routledge/Informa Law, 2023. — 220 p. The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-Being for a Sustainable Legal Profession is based on an innovative model, grounded in science. This book serves as a resource for promoting well-being and culture-change in the legal community by educating about pertinent issues impacting lawyers, and how to address them. It is a...
Carolina Academic Press, 2002. — 488 p. For as long as legal writing courses have existed, students have been given large quantities of information all at once. They are then expected to digest it in one large gulp and to "do it." The Lawyer's Craft takes a different approach. The authors of this innovative book take the specific skills required to write a memo or brief and...
Издательские решения, 2017. — 192 c. Эта книга проведет читателя через весь путь становления в качестве профессионального юриста: от получения юридического образования и трудоустройства до методик ведения дел в судах. Автор развеет стереотипы нынешней образовательной системы, расскажет, как быть востребованным в юридическом мире, подведя читателя к ответу на вопрос: как стать...
Seventh Edition. — Aspen Publishing, 2021. — 1078 p. Organizing legal citation into 40 thoroughly cogent and illustrated rules, the Guide is the ideal coursebook, supplement, or stand-alone reference for American legal citation. Students, law review staff, scholars, and practitioners can rely on the Guide 7E to provide precise citation rules for the full spectrum of legal...
Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, 2014. — 304 p. A proven resource for high performance, the Siegel s series keeps you focused on the only thing that matters the exam. The Siegel s series relies on a powerful Q&A format, featuring multiple-choice questions at varying levels of difficulty, as well as essay questions to give you practice issue-spotting and analyzing the law....
Wolters Kluwer Law Business, 2012. — 64 р. This book is intended to help new (and not so new) law teachers prepare for their first year of teaching Legal Writing. The Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Series is intended to help you, as a new law teacher, prepare for your first semesters in the classroom. It begins at the preliminary stages of planning a new course, and...
Springer, 2023. — 145 p. This book provides a novel contribution to the wider bodies of literature on student and academic wellbeing by including a series of rich and nuanced discussions of specific aspects of the wellbeing of legal academics. It contains original research contributions on this topic drawing on insights from law, education and psychology and throws a spotlight...
Carolina Academic Press, 2014. — 245 p. This book takes a collaborative approach to legal interviewing and counseling. It suggests that clients will be best served when lawyers and clients work together to resolve problems. Under a collaborative decision-making model, the client controls most decisions, but the lawyer structures the process and provides advice in a manner that...
Self-Counsel Press, 2016. — 128 p. Hiring a lawyer can be costly and unnecessary in certain circumstances as you deal with courts, claims and disputes. Lawyer Devlin Farmer has experience across North America in guiding clients to the most affordable, effective solutions, and he shares his advice in this book on how to represent your interests in the civil courts with the...
Routledge, 2023. — 257 p. Confused by cases? Stuck on statutes? Or just unsure where to start with writing, research or revision? The Insider’s Guide to Legal Skills will show you what you need to succeed, applying skills in their real-world context and helping you get to grips with legal method and thinking. Making use of problem-based learning and examples throughout, the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2022. — 259 p. Communication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive analysis of the communication processes in trials. Responding to the emerging interest in alternative dispute resolution, the book situates the trial within the...
Учебное пособие. — Оренбург: ОГУ, 2017. — 189 с. В учебном пособии раскрываются основные темы курса «Юридическая техника»: изложены теоретико-практические аспекты юридической техники, раскрывается ее функциональное значение, и рассматриваются основные виды юридической техники. Учебное пособие предназначено для студентов, обучающихся по программам высшего образования по...
Wolters Kluwer, 2016. — 416 p. Designed to prepare law students to negotiate knowledgably and successfully as lawyers representing clients, Lawyer Negotiation: Theory, Practice, and Law, Third Edition, features an integrated approach that combines theory, skills, negotiation strategy, ethics, and law. A very readable, interesting, and lively text for any law school Negotiation...
Thomson/West, 2012. — 567 p. In this groundbreaking book by best-selling authors Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation are systematically explained in an engaging and informative style-including several hundred illustrations from actual cases. Never before has legal...
Foundation Press, 2010. — 152 p. Designed to help law students write and publish articles, this text provides detailed instructions for every aspect of the law school writing, research, and publication process. Topics covered include law review articles and student notes, seminar term papers, how to shift from research to writing, cite-checking others work, publishing, and...
Routledge, 2022. — 272 p. This visually rich, experience-led collection explores what design can do for legal education. In recent decades design has increasingly come to be understood as a resource to improve other fields of public, private and civil society practice; and legal design—that is, the application of design-based methods to legal practice—is increasingly embedded...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 208 p. Of all the steps in the Supreme Court's decision-making process, only one is visible to the public: the oral arguments. By carefully analyzing transcripts of all the oral arguments available to the public, Professor Wrightsman provides empirical answers to a number of questions about the operation of oral arguments. This book provides a...
Second Edition. — Irwin Law, 2007. — 364 p. It is impossible to do anything in law without interpreting the words of others and anticipating how others will interpret or misinterpret one's own words. "Statutory Interpretation," by Ruth Sullivan, takes the mystery out of interpreting legal documents. The book deciphers the often confusing and contradictory rules of...
Fifth Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 450 p. — (Law in Context). New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and...
Springer, 2022. — 161 p. This book introduces methods to analyze legal documents such as negotiation records and legal precedents, using computational argumentation theory. First, a method to automatically evaluate argumentation skills from the records of argumentation exercises is proposed. In law school, argumentation exercises are often conducted and many records of them are...
Abraham Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. Learn everything you need to know to get into law school. This re-written and completely updated version of the bestselling law school admission guide (first published in 2009) provides detailed information on how to present yourself in the law school application process. Ann Levine brings more than a decade of experience in law school...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 232 p. From Truth to Technique addresses key questions raised by the burgeoning literature in what Philip Gaines calls advocacy advice texts-manuals, handbooks, and other how-to guides-written by lawyers for lawyers, both practicing and aspiring, to help them be as effective as possible in trial advocacy. In these texts, advice authors share...
Routledge, 2017. — 185 p. This book develops a central theme: legal persuasion results from making and breaking mental connections. This concept of making connections inspired the authors to take a rhetorical approach to the science of legal persuasion. That singular approach resulted in the integration of research from cognitive science with classical and contemporary...
Independent Publishers, 2020. — 162 p. Great law students do not necessarily work harder than their colleagues. Instead, they typically have an informational advantage to combine with their excellent work ethic. In other words, they are privy to useful bits of wisdom that give them a slight edge over their competition. Unfortunately, only a fraction of law students learn the...
Aspen Publishing, 2021. — 912 p. Resolving Disputes: Theory, Practice, and Law, Third Edition, features a logical four-part organization that covers negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and hybrid approaches, which prepares law students to represent clients in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. Drawing on the authors decades of experience as teachers, neutrals, and...
Fourth Edition. — Carolina Academic Press, 2021. — 374 p. Drafting and Analyzing Contracts (called Drafting Contracts in its first two editions) has three major parts: Part I is organized around the topics that are studied in the first year Contracts course. Part II teaches the skills of contract drafting. Part III teaches how to read a contract.The purpose of this book is to...
SAGE Publications, 2020. — 160 p. As part of the SAGE Guide to Writing series, The SAGE Guide to Writing in Corrections,1e, by Steven Hougland and Jennifer Allen, focuses on teaching students how to write in the academic setting while introducing them to a number of other professional writings specific to the correctional profession, such as the pre-sentence investigation...
CQ Press, 2017. — 144 p. While emphasizing that lawyers fulfill a vital but often misunderstood public function in society, The American Legal Profession: The Myths and Realities of Practicing Law by Christopher P. Banks dispels some of the common misconceptions about the legal profession to show that the reality of being a lawyer is much different from what many students...
Pearson/Longman, 2007. — 257 p. Covers legal dissertation level research showing how to do it – planning, identifying key issues, adopting appropriate research methods, time management and managing one’s supervision. This is a book that is long overdue, and I am certain will be seized upon by tutors everywhere. It will serve students writing dissertations, and I might add,...
Routledge-Cavendish, 1997. — 104 p. This book is written for law teachers who want to design their own teaching and learning materials. It is designed for individual teachers and teaching teams who want to develop materials and encourage active learning by students, and integrate the use of materials with other teaching and learning strategies. Most law teachers have no ideas...
Amer Counseling, 2015. — 370 p. In this seventh edition of The Counselor and the Law, each chapter has been updated to reflect changes in the 2014 ACA Code of Ethics, findings of recent court cases, and new federal and state legislation. Attorney Nancy Wheeler and Burt Bertram, a private practitioner and counselor educator, provide a comprehensive overview of the law as it...
Thomson/West, 2012. — 567 p. In this groundbreaking book by best-selling authors Justice Antonin Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation are systematically explained in an engaging and informative style-including several hundred illustrations from actual cases. Never before has legal...
Routledge, 2018. — 241 p. Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize. Through an examination of the U.S. Supreme Court's written output during a recent landmark term, this book exposes many of the parallels between these two special kinds of language use. Focusing on linguistic and rhetorical patterns in the dozens of...
Carolina Academic Press, 2017. — 245 p. Applied Critical Thinking and Legal Analysis ( ACTLA ) is an indispensable resource for prelaw and law students to achieve their full potential in law school. With ACTLA, students gain firsthand experience tackling the types of applied problems they will encounter in law school, while mastering an arsenal of tools and strategies specially...
Carolina Academic Press, 2021. — 386 p. After decades of taking a back seat to doctrine, lawyering skills have lately become the star of the legal education reform movement. Few law schools continue to question whether essential lawyering skills such as legal writing, research, and advocacy deserve a prominent place in the curriculum. Yet law schools continue to struggle with...
Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2016. — 224 p. Understanding how to go about solving legal problems is a critical skill law students require in order to achieve success at law school and later in professional practice. This innovative text is a guide to developing students’ critical thinking in solving legal problems through the application of the principles of logic. The authors...
Wolters Kluwer, 2016. — 448 p. Legal Reasoning, Research, and Writing for International Graduate Students helps readers understand and approach legal research and writing assignments the way attorneys do in the United States. Since most students will have studied civil law and some comparative law, but are unfamiliar with U.S. legal culture, the book begins by comparing common...
Springer International Publishing, 2015. — 221 p. This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argument from ignorance, slippery...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 186 p. Law schools currently do an excellent job of helping students to 'think like a lawyer,' but empirical data show that clients, legal employers, and the legal system need students to develop a wider range of competencies. This book helps legal educators to understand these competencies and provides practical ways to build them into a law...
Wolters Kluwer, 2012. — 172 p. The highly respected author of Transactional Lawyering Skills has written and co-written some of the top-selling books in the field. Designed to supplement Contract Drafting and Transactional Skills courses, his concise, straightforward explanation of professionalism covers working with transaction clients; problem-solving and problem-prevention;...
Sixth Edition. — Wolters Kluwer Law, 2014. — 415 p. With a consistent emphasis on precision and good organization, Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills, Sixth Edition, shows students how to draft memoranda, opinion letters, pleadings, briefs, and other legal documents. But because communication in the practice of law occurs in specific contexts, authors Nancy L. Schultz and...
Wolters Kluwer, 2015. — 224 p. In a successful litigation, it isn’t enough to know the facts. You must also know how to interpret and use those facts, and thoughtfully delving into the stories behind them is a crucial task if you hope to prevail for your client. Fact Investigation, by longtime NITA authors Paul Zwier and Anthony Bocchino, will change the way you approach cases...
Third Edition. — Wolters Kluwer, 2012. — 415 p. With a practical focus on persuasive writing strategies, Advanced Legal Writing: Theory and Strategies in Persuasive Writing explores three classical techniques: logos, pathos, and ethos, and provides students with a thorough introduction to the elements of rhetorical style. Unlike many other advanced legal writing texts, which...
Wolters Kluwer, 2018. — 598 p. Designed for upper-level survey legal drafting courses, this groundbreaking text explains drafting using a common vocabulary that applies to any legal document based on a fundamental rule structure, including statutes and other forms of public drafting as well as contracts and other forms of private drafting. This unified drafting approach gives...