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Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Eighth Edition

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  • Linda H. Edwards
  • Samantha A. Moppett
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Book length
450 pages
Publication Date
2022-01-31
Edition
Eighth Edition
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Description
Table of contents
Preface

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Linda H. Edward and Samantha A. Moppett’s Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, Eighth Edition, is an essential guide for legal writing students.

Samantha Moppett joins Linda Edwards, 2017 Burton Award recipient and renowned author on the Eighth Edition of Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and Organization, the only legal writing text that uses a process approach, presenting writing as a logical sequence of steps. Streamlined to meet the needs of today’s students, the Eighth Edition uses adult learning theory concepts and a “flipped classroom” approach to add even greater focus and efficiency to classroom and study time.

New to the 8th Edition:

  • The process of writing a legal memo has been updated to include material on e-memos.
  • Information about the Native American tribes, the third sovereign entity in the United States, has been added.
  • The chapter on editing now includes a discussion of the proper use of they as a singular pronoun.
  • The citation chapter has been edited to reflect the rules in the new editions of the ALWD Guide to Legal Citation and The Bluebook.

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Straightforward and succinct presentation of first-year legal writing topics
  • Approach to teaching reasoning and writing as two interrelated processes
  • Clear explanations and concrete examples that support a range of learning styles
  • Writing exercises that offer hands-on practice for skill development
  • Chapter on professional correspondence that provides guidance as to the appropriate use of e-mail and texts
  • Sample office memorandum, e-memo, letters, trial brief, and appellate brief, as well as the cases that were used in the examples, which are conveniently located in the Appendices

Teaching materials include:

  • Teacher’s Manual
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About the authors
Linda H. Edwards
William S. Boyd School of Law

Professor Edwards joined the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in July 2009 after serving as Visiting Professor of Law in 2008-2009. Before joining the academy, Professor Edwards practiced law for eleven years. She then began her teaching career at the New York University School of Law, where she served as the Coordinator of the NYU Lawyering Program. In 1990, Professor Edwards joined the faculty at the Mercer University School of Law, where she was the Macon Professor of Law. During her 19 years at Mercer, Professor Edwards directed the legal writing program and taught in the areas of property, employment discrimination, advanced legal writing, professional responsibility, and legal reasoning.

Professor Edwards is a national leader in the field of legal writing, having been awarded the 2009 Thomas Blackwell Award for her lifetime achievements in and contributions to the field. She has published a number of articles and three books in the areas of legal writing and property, and she has served in a variety of capacities at the ABA and the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Edwards is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and she serves as a faculty member for the Persuasion Institutes Advanced Training Program in Narrative Construction, which is sponsored by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

Samantha A. Moppett
Professor
Suffolk University Law School

Professor Moppett has been teaching legal research and writing since 1997. She began her teaching career at Suffolk University Law School. She joined the faculty at the Arizona State University College of Law in 1999, where she taught the first-year Legal Research and Writing course, Appellate Advocacy, Advanced Legal Writing, and Intensive Legal Research and Writing. In 2002, Professor Moppett returned to Suffolk, where she is the Associate Director of the nationally ranked Legal Practice Skills Program. Prior to teaching, Professor Moppett clerked for the Justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Subsequently, she worked as a litigation associate in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Moppett is actively involved in national legal writing organizations, having served in various roles, including being elected as Secretary of the Legal Writing Institute and as a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research. Professor Moppett frequently presents at regional and national legal writing conferences, and her scholarship includes numerous articles on various topics, including legal writing, as well as a book on mindful lawyering.
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Edition
Eighth Edition
Publication date
2022-01-31
Copyright Year
2022
Pages
450
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9781543839463
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9781543857108
Subject
Legal Writing
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