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Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication, Fifth Edition

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  • Deborah A. Schmedemann
  • Christina L. Kunz
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
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Book length
604 pages
Publication Date
2017-02-08
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client’s situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises—based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students—provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. The book is accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi.

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Deborah A. Schmedemann
William Mitchell College of Law

During her twenty years as a law school professor, Professor Schmedemann has pursued three main interests: the teaching of key law practice skills, empirical analysis of contracting behaviors, and the ever-changing law of employment relations. Professor Schmedemann is conducting empirical research regarding public service by lawyers, including pro bono representation of people who cannot afford to hire lawyers. Her sample includes 1,200 law students and lawyers. She has presented on this topic at the Equal Justice Conference (a national conference for lawyers who provide free legal services to the poor) and the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, as well as consulted with legal services agencies that have pro bono programs.

The research has identified the importance of the lawyers views regarding social issues, approach to moral dilemmas, values, and connection to his or her community. Professor Schmedemann is a frequent speaker on employment law topics at CLE programs and on teaching issues at law school conferences.

Christina L. Kunz
William Mitchell College of Law

Professor Kunz has helped to develop electronic commercial law since 1990. She actively participates in the ABA Cyberspace Law Committee, is a frequent speaker on the topic nationwide, and has co-authored two groundbreaking articles on electronic contract formation. This expertise supplements a longstanding interest in Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) sales law and contract law. She has co-authored an innovative textbook on sales of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code, has been vice chair of the ABA Committee on the UCC and a co-chair of the ABA Working Group on Electronic Contracting Practices, and is currently a co-chair of the ABA Subcommittee on Electronic Commerce. She was elected to ALI in 2002 and is on the Members Consultative group on the Principles of the Law of Software Contracts. Kunz is also known nationally in the field of legal research and writing, is co-author of many editions of two major textbooks on the topic, and has participated in the Legal Writing Institute and related ABA and AALS organizations.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2017-02-08
Copyright Year
2017
Pages
604
Digital Product
9781454888024
Subject
Legal Writing
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