Synthesis employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client's situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. One solid case file--the HomeElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law--is used to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a ...
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Synthesis employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client's situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. One solid case file--the HomeElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law--is used to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises--based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students--provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. Synthesis is accompanied by a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi. Features: Utilizes a step-by-step approach guides students through effective legal reasoning and writing tactics Teaches how to think like a lawyer how to read the law how to reason a client's situation how to write about the situation in different legal forms Uses one case file the HomeElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law demonstrates how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument Maintains a pedagogy designed to teach in different ways, with numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners Employs vigorous exercises based on tort law issues particularly accessible to first-year students provides opportunities for active application of skills Includes a Teacher's Manual additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum suggestions for effectively using the book sample syllabi Offers complete coverage of memo and brief writing
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