Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills, Fifth Edition

With a consistent emphasis on precision and good organization, Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills, Fifth Edition , shows students how to draft memoranda, opinion letters, pleadings, briefs, and other legal documents. But because communication in the practice of law occurs in specific contexts, authors Nancy L. Schultz and Louis J. Sirico, Jr . teach other valuable lawyering skills, such as client counseling, negotiating, and how to present an oral argument before the court, in this timely and student-friendly text. Now with a more contemporary look that reflects a new publisher and revisions requested by users of the text, the Fifth Edition of Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills The focused exercises and examples in Legal Writing and Other Lawyering Skills, Fifth Edition , simulate the tasks performed by lawyers in practice--and reflect the authors' forward-looking, practice-based approach to teaching writing and lawyering skills to law students