Legal Writing from the Ground Up: Process, Principles, and Possibilities, Fourth Edition
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Book length
464 pages
Publication Date
2015-01-15
Edition
Fourth Edition
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Legal Writing from the Ground Up: Process, Principles, and Possibilities breaks down legal writing into a step-by-step process but avoids a one-size-fits-all approach. This book helps legal writing professors balance the need to encourage original and strategic thinking while providing guidance for students as they develop their legal writing skills. Tracy Turner writes with today s generation of students in mind, and helps to arm student with specific and powerful tools without shackling their creativity.
Key Features
Multiple adaptations of the Issue, Rule, Application, and Conclusion (IRAC) paradigm that reflect a different approaches to problem solving
Different strategic considerations in selecting the right analytical model for a particular case
Consistent emphasis on the foundations of legal analysis
Proven-effective techniques for continuing skill development
Visual aids that are transferable learning tools, such as charts and diagrams
Critical reading techniques, clearly explained
Visually navigable pages and the author s direct and engaging writing style
An intuitively logical organization of content, that easily adapts to myriad approaches to teaching and study
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Director of the Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills Program
Southwestern Law School
While pursuing both her undergraduate and law degrees, Professor Turner utilized her writing and editing skills as senior editor of Politica at Tufts and executive editor of the Harvard Womens Law Journal, and as a volunteer with the Harvard Battered Womens Advocacy Project, and the Court Appointed Special Advocates for children in protective custody in Boston. She also served as a legal clerk conducting research and drafting for the Connecticut State Attorneys Office and the New York Civil Liberties Union. Following law school, Professor Turner moved to Los Angeles and began her career in civil and appellate practice at the firms of Proskauer Rose and Brobeck, Phleger Harrison where she handled labor and employment law cases. There she gained extensive experience in state and federal court litigation, Equal Employment Opportunities Commission investigations, National Labor Relations Board and workers compensation hearings, National Association of Securities Dealers arbitrations, and private mediation. In 2001, she joined the firm of Horvitz Levy as an appellate law associate handling cases in state and federal appellate courts involving medical malpractice, commercial disputes, consumer litigation, and employment policies and practices. Professor Turner joined Southwesterns full-time legal research and writing faculty in 2004, and was appointed as Director of the Legal Analysis, Writing and Skills program in 2007. She has been a presenter at forums around the country including the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, the Empire State Legal Writing Conference, and the Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (LWI). She has served as a mentor for the LWI Mentoring Group Program.