Overview

An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - Utilizes a step-by-step approach to help guide students to understanding effective legal reasoning and writing tactics - Teaches students how to think like a lawyer, discussing key topics such as how to read the law, how to reason about a client's situation, and how to write about it in different legal forms - Uses one case file -- the Home-ElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law -- to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument - Maintains a pedagogy designed to reach those who learn in different ways, incorporating numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners - Integrates exercises throughout the book -- based on a tort law issue that is particularly understandable for first-year students -- to provide opportunities for active application of skills - Includes a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to use the book effectively, and sample syllabi Thoughtful changes to the Third Edition keep the text current for your classroom: - Offers more consideration to transaction-based memos and advice letters - Integrates material on premediation submissions - Includes additional material on pleadings (complaints, answers, and discovery documents) - Provides updated exercises and citation materials

ISBN-13

9780735562837

ISBN-10

0735562830

Weight

1.95 Pounds

Dimensions

7.00 x 1.00 x 10.00 In

List Price

$94.00

Edition

3rd Edition

Format

-

Pages

566 pages

Publisher

Aspen Publishers

Published On

2007-06-22



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