"Primary text for law school courses on Persuasive or Advanced Legal Writing, and a handbook for lawyers who want to advance their legal writing skills"--

Effective and succinct, Level Up Your Legal Writing: Techniques and Technology to Supercharge Your Skills, is your guide to leveling up every aspect of your legal writing. Grounded in a decade of research, these tools have been used successfully used by author Joe Regalia, as a founder of Write.law, to train students, lawyers, and judges in leveling up their writing style, developing their own authentic voice, connecting with their reader, leveraging technology, and learning to enjoy the writing process once again--or for the first time. A forward-thinking, integrated approach to the role of technology prepares you to thrive in today's rapidly evolving, high-tech legal landscape. Professors and students will benefit from: Complete coverage of legal writing, from rule synthesis and storytelling to the mechanics of writing and advanced rhetorical style Leveling up the structure, design, and style of legal documents, with sample memos, motions, and briefs Examples throughout that illustrate every concept and technique The "how and why" of each technique, so you can make informed choices when using them A step-by-step guide to the writing process, from brainstorming and outlining to drafting and editing your final product Appropriate uses for technology throughout the writing process

Highlights of this offering from Murray and DeSanctis' Legal Research and Writing include: Use of the TREAT paradigm and the doctrine of explanatory synthesis which are superior rhetorical devices to maximize the persuasive potential of adversarial legal writing; Multiple annotated samples of each form of work product (pre-trial motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment, a writ petition, and appellate briefs) rather than offering one or two unannotated model briefs; An in-depth analysis of oral argument and moot court skills and strategies; Written by law professors with substantial experience in litigation in trial and appellate courts, one of whom is a former member of a national champion moot court team; Well suited for use in a second semester Introduction to Advocacy or Legal Writing course, or an upper division trial and appellate advocacy or advanced writing course.

Resource added for the Paralegal program 101101.

This guide provides all students' need to know about presentation and preparation of law papers. It gives practical advice on how to prepare written work and quality research. Whether writing an essay or a thesis, the guide outlines matters of style, referencing and citation, information of library strategies, skills of creative argument, and further recommended reading. It should be valuable for any student of law, be they a first year of a postgraduate fellow.