Case Analysis and Fundamentals of Legal Writing, 4th Edition
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
HOW TO BRIEF AN OPINION
- Introduction to Court Opinions and the Legal System
- Introduction to Briefing
- Identifying the Parties
- Identifying the Objectives and Theories of the Parties
- Identifying the History of the litigation
- Introduction to the Identification of Key Facts
- Identifying Issues and Holdings
- Identifying Reasoning
- Dictum, Disposition, and Commentary on the Opinion
- Fact Comparison in the Application of Case Law: Fact Similarities, Fact Differences, and Fact Gaps
THE APPLICATION OF COURT OPINIONS
- Fact Comparison in the application of Case Law: Fact Similarities, Fact Differences, and Fact Gaps
- Rule-of-Law Comparison
- Factors Determining the Length and Comprehensiveness of Case Analysis
- Primary and Secondary Authority: Their Use and Abuse in Legal Writing
- Using and Abusing Legislative History in Legal Writing
- Writing the Memorandum of Law
- Letter Writing and Case Analysis
- The Appellate Brief
- Clarity in Legal Writing
APPENDIX
- Overview of Civil and Criminal Litigation
- Citations in Legal Writing
- Quotation Marks, Brackets, and Ellipsis Dots
- Usage Rules and Guidelines: From A to Z
- Proofreader’s marks
