Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing (2nd Edition) – ePub

The ebook Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing, 2nd Edition (ePub/PDF) distinguishes itself from other legal writing textbooks by concentrating on the essential principles of client advocacy and offering effective strategies to persuade readers to grant the desired relief. Unlike typical textbooks that primarily focus on sections of an appellate brief, this work navigates the client-advocacy process from the initial meeting with the client through fact investigation and the selection of the most effective persuasive approaches. It is enriched by insights from narrative theory, brain science, and cognitive psychology, making it an invaluable resource for legal professionals.

The captivating conversational writing style boosts understanding while demonstrating how classical rhetoric and contemporary persuasion theories form the foundation of effective legal writing. This ebook covers both trial and appellate levels, elegantly linking first-year goals with advanced skills, externships, and clinic courses. Additionally, professors can easily customize the sample briefs in the appendices to meet their unique needs.

New to the Second Edition:

• Expanded coverage of how to write a powerful conclusion to your brief
• A new chapter on reasoning with facts (inferential reasoning), covering fact synthesis, weight of facts, and drawing negative inferences from the absence of critical facts
• A new chapter on logical fallacies, unique among legal coursebooks, categorizing and describing 16 common logical fallacies, providing examples and guidance on how to spot and avoid them

Professors and students will greatly benefit from:

• This textbook prioritizes the pivotal question, “How can lawyers persuade their audience through effective legal writing?” rather than merely asking, “What format should a brief follow?”
• This ebook emphasizes facts as its foundation, uniquely dedicating multiple chapters to factual research, fact synthesis, and reasoning based on those facts.
• With its client-centered approach, this textbook stands out in the legal writing landscape. By mastering the art of “Your Client’s Story,” students are equipped to remain focused on client advocacy.
• Compared to other books, this ebook provides in-depth coverage of visual design, including an exploration of visualized legal reasoning.
• The authors possess extensive experience, having written foundational legal scholarship on legal narrative and document design. All authors are former presidents of the Legal Writing Institute, and one serves as the co-editor-in-chief of a legal journal dedicated to publishing articles on persuasive writing for practicing attorneys.

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