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This text provides an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. This manual does not answer every question on every legal writing concept; it is certainly not a spell book that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing. Seek feedback on your writing and then implement the feedback you receive. Writing takes practice, and this manual can help guide you.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Sources of Law and Court Systems
Chapter 2: Reading Cases
Chapter 3: Briefing Cases
Chapter 4: Local Rules and Standing Orders
Chapter 5: Time Management
Chapter 6: Metacognition and Study Skills
Chapter 7: Introduction to Citation
Chapter 8: The Legal Reader
Chapter 9: Prewriting
Chapter 10: CREAC Legal Writing Paradigm
Chapter 11: Predictive Writing
Chapter 12: Rule Synthesis
Chapter 13: Summary of Law
Chapter 14: Case Synthesis
Chapter 15: Parts of a Memo
Chapter 16: Transitions and Signposting
Chapter 17: Persuasive Writing
Chapter 18: Policy
Chapter 19: Parts of an Appellate Brief
Chapter 20: Assessing Your Own Work
Chapter 21: Conducting Peer Review
Chapter 22: Writing for Exams
Chapter 23: Legal Latin Phrases
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Affordable Learning Georgia
Keywords
legal writing, legal citation, legal research, lawyering skills
Repository Citation
Jean Mangan et al., Legal Writing Manual (3d ed. 2022).
Comments
The third edition of this manual was made possible with funding from Affordable Learning Georgia’s Continuous Improvement Grant Round 21.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.