This workbook will help develop two essential lawyering skills: objective analysis and writing. Providing ample foundation in every chapter followed by exercises, Becoming a Legal Writer is designed to complement any legal writing book or be used as a stand-alone text for academic support or pre-law instruction. Students will learn fundamental lawyering skills such as formulating questions to ask clients upon intake, exploring research strategies into systems of law, developing critical reading skills for statutes and cases, briefing cases, extrapolating implicit and explicit rules, synthesizing rules, organizing and applying the law into objective written analysis, and polishing their writing.
Robin Boyle-Laisure is a Professor of Legal Writing at St. John’s University School of Law.
Christine Nero Coughlin is a Professor of Law at Wake Forest University School of Law.
Sandy C. Patrick is a Professor of Lawyering at Lewis & Clark Law School.