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The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Persuasive Writing

Authors
  • Heidi K. Brown
Series / Aspen Coursebook Series
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The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Persuasive Writing is designed to provide practical real-life context for the role of persuasive legal writing in authentic law practice. Students need to understand WHY lawyers write the way they do, and HOW the students own work product will be useful in real life by a supervising attorney, client, or judge. This book encapsulates ways to inject passion into teaching and learning persuasive legal writing, with the goal of empowering students to take ownership of their writing craft. The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Persuasive Writing offers best practices for presenting a legal argument in a logical, engaging, and ethical manner no matter what the assignment. Once students have mastered these fundamentals, they can learn how to add their own artistic flair.
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About the authors
Heidi K. Brown
New York Law School

Heidi K. Brown has served as Of Counsel with Moore Lee, LLP since 2001. She represents key players in the government contracts, construction, and long-term health care industries, specializing in contract drafting, civil procedure, and brief-writing in complex litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States. Heidi started her legal career as an associate with the construction litigation firm of Watt, Tieder, Hoffar, Fitzgerald, LLP, and subsequently practiced at the downtown Manhattan firm of Thacher Proffitt Wood. For the past seven years, Heidi also served as an Associate Professor of Law at law schools in California and New York City, teaching Evidence, Legal Practice, Legal Research and Writing, Civil Discovery, Deposition Skills, and Memo and Brief Writing.

Heidi has a special passion for assisting law students and lawyers in overcoming extreme public speaking anxiety. Her article, The Silent But Gifted Law Student: Transforming Anxious Public Speakers into Well-Rounded Advocates, was published in the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, 18 Leg. Writing 291 (2012). Heidi received a 2014 Global Legal Skills Award, presented at the Ninth Annual Global Legal Skills Conference at the Collegio di Giurisprudenza at the Università degli Studi di Verona, in Verona, Italy, for excellence in the advancement of global legal skills education around the world. She was recently appointed to the Fulbright Specialist Roster, by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute of International Education's Council for International Exchange of Scholars.

Product Information
Publication date
2016-02-09
Copyright Year
2016
Pages
400
Paperback
9781454836193
Subject
Legal Research
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