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Legal Writing, Fifth Edition

Authors
  • Richard K.  Neumann
  • Sheila Simon
  • Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
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Engaging text for legal writing written with today’s student in mind

Written in a style that engages students, Legal Writing, Fifth Edition, includes outstanding coverage on organizing analysis according to the CREAC formula, the writing process, storytelling techniques, rule analysis, statutory interpretation, and professionalism. In addition, the book has dynamic student resources including classroom and independent exercises, self-assessment checklists, and other learning tools.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • Chapters are carefully edited and streamlined, providing focused coverage of the entire writing process
  • New Sample Appellate Brief in Appendix D
  • Clearer presentation of statutory interpretation and rule analysis in legal writing

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • The compact, conversational tone
  • Short, accessible assignments and exercises
  • Checklists that help students assess their own writing
  • An engaging mix of theory and reality
  • Coverage featuring:
  • Storytelling techniques in persuasive argument
  • The CREAC formula for organizing analysis
  • The role of persuasive point headings in constructing an argument
  • Elements of professionalism that must be considered
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About the authors
Richard K. Neumann
Professor of Law
Hofstra University

At Hofstra, Alexander Bickel Distinguished Professor of Law Richard K. Neumann has taught Contracts; Transactional Lawyering; International Business Transactions; Legal Writing; Civil Procedure; Legal Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation; Pretrial Litigation; Federal Courts; Trial Techniques; and clinical courses. Professor Neumann is the author or coauthor of four textbooks: Transactional Lawyering Skills; Essential Lawyering Skills (with Prof. Krieger); Legal Writing (with Prof. J. Lyn Entrikin of the Univ. of Arkansas and Sheila Simon, Lt. Governor of Illinois); and Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (with Prof. Kristen Tiscione of Georgetown Univ.).

His articles have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Education, the Clinical Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities, among others. He is an editorial advisor to Aspen Publishing, one of the largest publishers of law school textbooks.

He has served on several committees of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar as well as a number of ABA site inspection teams. He has been chair of the American Law Schools’ Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research; a member of the board of directors of the Legal Writing Institute; and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors. He is a frequent speaker at legal education conferences.

Sheila J. Simon

Following law school, Sheila Simon worked as a staff attorney at a legal aid clinic, the Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation from 1987 to 1992, providing legal services to indigent clients. She was an associate at the firm of O'Neill Colvin in Carbondale, Illinois, from 1992 to 1994 and then served as an assistant state's attorney in Jackson County, Illinois, from 1994 to 1998, where she prosecuted DUIs and domestic battery cases. Along with several other attorneys and with the support of school faculty, Simon helped to inaugurate Southern Illinois University's law school domestic violence clinic in 1998. She worked as a clinical assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to clinical associate professor in 2005. She taught both lawyering skills and family law in addition to her clinical teaching. In 2010, Simon was elected Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. She and her husband, Perry, have two daughters, Reilly and Brennan, and she plays banjo and bassoon in the band Loose Gravel.

Product Information
Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2023-02-08
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
390
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9781543858648
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9798886144550
Subject
Legal Writing
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