Just Briefs: Preparing for Practice, Fourth Edition
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Book length
352 pages
Publication Date
2020-09-15
Edition
Fourth Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
Description
Just Briefs: Preparing for Practice, Fourth Edition, features the authors’ famously effective step-by-step approach in the form of a highly focused how-to guide. Just Briefs provides all of the tools needed to master the critical legal writing skill of drafting motion and appellate briefs. The perfect companion to any legal writing text, Just Briefs teaches the skills of effective advocacy as it plays out in trial and appellate briefs, oral argument, and the thinking process that informs both.
New to the Fourth Edition:
Updated examples throughout the text
Reorganized in this edition into shorter, more teachable chapters
Professors and students will benefit from:
The authors’ trademark straightforward, step-by-step approach
Helpful examples of motion and appellate briefs
Ideas about how to present an effective oral argument
Federal rules and samples of federal briefs, valuable resources for participants in moot court competitions
Practice Pointers that offer real-world advice for writing persuasive briefs
Coverage of motion briefs, with a brief in support of a motion for summary judgment
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