Art of Advocacy: Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of America's Best Lawyers
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2013-06-28
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The Art of Advocacy: Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of America’s Best Lawyers presents more than 150 examples of masterful advocacy to show lawyers how to write winning motions and briefs. The book focuses on the strategic and substantive choices that top litigators make, drawing examples from important, timely, and controversial cases. Detailed annotations give readers insight into what makes each document so effective. In addition to presenting a host of storytelling, stylistic, and organizational strategies, the book's examples demonstrate how to build and rebut different types of arguments.
The Appendices provide a wealth of additional resources, including Karl Llewellyn’s previously unpublished advice from 1957 about the art of advocacy, which one top law professor described as the “best advice on legal writing I’ve ever seen.”
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Compiles more than 150 examples of masterfully written legal advocacy and analysis
Succinct introductory text presents the facts of each case
Detailed annotations by the author highlight
How to tell your client’s story
How to build and counter six types of legal argument
How to organize your arguments
How to develop a theme
Excerpts from high-interest cases, such as
The battle over “Obamacare”
A massive copyright suit involving YouTube
BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Facebook’s infamous feud with the Winklevoss twins
Apple’s billion-dollar patent dispute with Samsung
Lance Armstrong’s attempt to retain his Tour de France titles
Major cases involving gay rights and affirmative action
For year-long courses, a stellar option for second-semester students
Perfect for practicing litigators who want to see a playbook of moves and strategies from top lawyers and from major cases
Stresses strategic choices and the art of building compelling substantive arguments
Focuses on briefs and motions
Developing a theme
Framing issues
Isolates examples of specific arguments—doctrinal, textual, legislative history policy, and so on
Innovative layout
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About the authors
Noah Messing
Yale University
Noah Messing is Yale Law Schools Lecturer in the Practice of Law and Legal Writing. He graduated in 2000 from Yale Law School, where he was a Coker Fellow. While at Yale, he received the Benjamin Cardozo Prize and the Potter Stewart Prize in the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals program; those prizes are awarded, respectively, for the years best moot court brief and to the team that wins the Spring semester moot court competition. Following graduation, Noah worked as a trial and appellate litigator in Washington D.C., as Counsel to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and as Associate Counsel to the Hillary Clinton for President campaign.
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Publication date
2013-06-28
Copyright Year
2013
Pages
336
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9781454818380
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9781543850215
Subject
Appellate Advocacy
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Art of Advocacy: Briefs, Motions, and Writing Strategies of America's Best Lawyers