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This course is a continuation of Legal Writing I. It is designed to provide the practical guidance and experience, in writing legal correspondence and applying law to facts, needed in writing essay exams for school substantive courses, for bar exams, and for the practice of law. Emphasis will be placed on creating legal documents that integrate law and facts. In this course, we strive to provide you with specific techniques and strategies for accomplishing these goals.
Learning Outcomes: - Examine legal precedent and the IRAC method of legal analysis and apply to a fact pattern.
- Review and understand the components of a legal memoranda and the IRAC method.
- Apply deductive reasoning to a given fact pattern.
- Examine the content of the office memorandum of law with emphasis on audience, purpose, perspective, format, and elements.
- Examine legal writing style in the context of an office memorandum, with emphasis on clarity, precision, content, phrasing, review and revision.
- Analyze presentation, quotation, and citation to legal authority, including citation form, effective presentation of authority, and use of quotation.
- Examine the ethics of advocacy.
- Compare and contrast styles of persuasive legal writing.
- Compare and contrast legal pleadings.
- Examine the motion for summary judgment, including its procedural context, legal standards, format, statement of facts, and supporting evidentiary materials
- Examine the motion to exclude evidence before trial.
- Compare standards of appellate review.
- Examine effective appellate advocacy through the use of the brief.
- Analyze the fundamental components of legal contracts.
- Examine the purpose, audience, writing style, and format of advice letters.
- Analyze the purpose, audience, tone, writing style, and format of demand letters.
- Synthesize course concepts through interaction and discussion with other learners and faculty mentor.
- Apply plain English writing principles through completion of assigned exercises.
- Synthesize the law, arguments and facts into the legal document.
- Develop and organize legal arguments.
- Introduce yourself and your objectives for the course.
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