The Practice of Law School: Legal Skills and Mental Health and Wellness

This Style Guide sets out guidelines based on best practices in Canadian legal writing, with a view to ensuring clarity, consistency, and readability.

The focus of this book is on communicating more effectively in email, letters, memos, blog posts, client updates, and social media, but there are some pointers on contractual drafting and written advocacy as well.

This book provides law students with guidance and information to complete a law-related dissertation. The primary aim of this book is to tackle the issues that cause anxiety to law students undertaking a dissertation so that they can focus on the research that you find exciting. As well as explaining the process of research and outlining the various legal research approaches, the book also provides practical, step-by-step guidance on how to formulate a proposal, research plan, and literature review.

The purpose of this book is to get you started and guide you through the full scholarly writing process, from drafting to publishing. This book breaks down that process into understandable and manageable tasks to help you get started and complete the project.

This book teaches law students how to write scholarly papers for seminars, law reviews, and law-review competitions and how to have their work recognized. It helps novices and more experienced scholars alike to write papers with a minimum of anxiety and a maximum of creativity. It covers both traditional doctrinal topics and newer areas like empirical studies. Appendices provide a sample law-review competition paper, answers to in-text exercises, sample syllabi for scholarly writing courses, and a rubric for evaluating and editing scholarly papers and articles.

This is a comprehensive guide to legal reading, reasoning, and writing that will help students learn how to use primary and secondary legal resources in making legal arguments; develop skills in legal reading, reasoning, and research; and write clear and effective legal memos, opinion letters, briefs, arguments, and pleadings.

Also available in print: KE289 H88 2009 LAW (Reserve).
This text includes a chapter on legal writing, including case briefs, legal memorandum, case comments, and factums. Examples are in the appendices for reference.

Written Advocacy can help new lawyers hone their writing abilities so they can provide the best possible representation for their clients in any number of situations. This text provides guidance on writing letters and emails, civil pleadings, memorandum, motions and applications, arguments to be presented at trial, and appeals.

This text covers both the procedural requirements for preparing factums, as well as the persuasive art of factum writing.

This Handbook outlines the techniques of clear writing for legal professionals, academics, students of the law and the judiciary and establishes a context for the development of plain language documents.