Receive notifications of relevant legal news, curated for your course area and general legal topics, from a variety of legal news sites. With a focus on predictive analytics, legal method, and writing I: Predictive Writing, the eighth edition empowers students to think and write like an advocate. Clear and comprehensive, the text uses numerous illustrations and exercises that immerse students in legal analysis, our precedent system, the use of authority, and predictive writing. Different office note formats are covered, with separate chapters on organization and writing style. The multicultural themes that run perfectly through the book enrich the classroom discussion with context and perspective. Key Features: The focus is on predictive analytics, legal method, and writing I: Predictive Writing, Eighth Edition allows students to think and write like a lawyer. Clear and comprehensive, the text uses numerous illustrations and exercises that immerse students in legal analysis, our precedent system, the use of authority, and predictive writing. Different office note formats are covered, with separate chapters on organization and writing style. The multicultural themes that run perfectly through the book enrich the classroom discussion with context and perspective.
This revision expands the scope of requests for dismissal while maintaining comprehensive coverage of complaints, responses, requests for summary rulings and in the first requests for exclusion of evidence. Numerous illustrations, sample documents and exercises cover topics ranging from the application of prenuptial agreements to sexual harassment in the workplace. Charles Calleros is Professor of Law at Sandra Day O`Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, where he has taught legal method and drafting, advanced drafting seminar, contracts, international contracts, civil rights law, tort and civil clinic. He has taught contract law as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Santa Clara University School of Law and has taught introductory courses in the common law legal method at the University of Paris and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China. Shortly after joining the faculty of the A.S.U. In 1981, Professor Calleros began directing writing programs at Phoenix law firms, allowing him to focus on written advocacy and transactional work. This experience, combined with his work at the Court of Appeal and his teaching of contracts and legal writing, provided him with a rich combination of perspectives and knowledge bases that served as the basis for his textbook Legal Method and Writing. After graduating from the U.C. Davis School of Law in 1978, Professor Calleros worked for the Office of Central Staff Counsel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He credits his mentors with stimulating his fascination with legal writing, which led him to ask to be taught in the legal writing program when he entered teaching after completing his tenure as a central staff attorney, and then worked for Ninth District Judge Procter Hug.
Jr. Outside of the classroom, Professor Holst has been a mediator and attorney for a legal aid organization in Minnesota. She also practiced as a private lawyer in various fields before becoming a professor. Kimberly Holst is a clinical professor of law at Arizona State University Sandra Day O`Connor College of Law and teaches legal method and writing as well as upper-level writing and skills courses. Professor Holst`s research focuses on the interdisciplinary use of methods from various fields of educational pedagogy and their application to jurisprudence. His work is also applied to the development of legal education in a global context. In particular, Professor Holst presented techniques for more effective legal education to various international audiences. She has also written in the areas of intellectual property and criminal procedure.
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