Legal Writing category: 57 books
by Albert Fiadjoe, Gilbert Kodilinye, Joyce Cole Georges
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
This book begins by tracing the life story of Telford Georges from the childhood years in Dominica, through the years of practice in Trinidad, followed by the Tanzania and Zimbabwe years, and culminating in The Bahamas period. Transcribed conversations with Telford are included, in which he gives...
by James Bauhaus
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
CATCH A KILLER
Fix the Legal System and Turn $500,000 into $13 Million or More
An innocent man was lied into prison forty-two years ago. He has proof of his innocence. We need to raise no more than twenty times the cost of a fair trial to pay the Innocence Project attorneys, publicists,...
Contracts
A 1L Success Guide Outline
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This outline is the outline I wish I had for my 1L Contracts courses. ***
One of the best ways to succeed in law school is to have skeleton outlines prepared in advance of class. That way, you already have a roadmap of where the day's lecture will go. It cuts down on confusion, allowing...
Translating the Social World for Law
Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of...
The Trust
Short Story Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Do you trust the person you’ve chosen to write the legal documents governing your estate?THE TRUST is a fictional slice of life centered around a traumatic series of events related to securing a family's wealth and property for the benefit of their children after their deaths.Everyone wants...
Attorney by Day, Novelist by Night
Bring Your Book to Light While Still Practicing Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
An inspiring guide for lawyers—or any busy professionals—who want to pursue their literary dreams.
Are you an attorney working hard, sixty-plus-hour weeks to right the wrongdoings of the world? Are you enjoying a successful legal career, but still not wholly satisfied? Have you dreamed...
by Simeon C.R. Mcintosh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Historically, revolution has been one of the principal means of founding a new state. But can this new state have any moral legitimacy, born as it is out of violence? That is the critical question for legal theorists. The late Hans Kelsen, arguably one of the leading legal theorists and philosophers...
by Leonard DuBoff, Bert Krages, II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
"No writer will want to be without this book." -Jean M. Auel, author of The Clan of the Cave Bear and other books in The Earth's Children series.
Writing is your passion. Making a living with your words is your dream. Taking charge of your business is the key to having it all.
The...
How to Write Rules That People Want to Follow
A Guide to Writing Respectful Policies and Directives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Break the Mold of Negativity Around Rules
Often organizations claim to hold "respect for others" as a core value, but when you look at their rules documents, the story is different. Whether they call them "policies," "terms and conditions," or simply "guidelines,"...
Rehumanizing Law
A Theory of Law and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
In a popular sense, 'law' connotes the rules of a society, as well as the institutions that make and enforce those rules. Although laws are created and interpreted in legislatures and courtrooms by individuals with very specialized knowledge, the practice and making of law is closely tied to other...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,”...
Shark Tales
True (and Amazing) Stories from America's Lawyers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2001
QUESTION: How many lawyers does it take to finish the roof of a two-thousand-square-foot house with dormers?
ANSWER: Depends on how thin you slice them.
Lawyers, and, more to the point, lawyer stories, have been sliced, diced, and presented for consumption for centuries. Ever since Dick the...
Criminal Law
A 1L Success Guide Outline
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This is the outline I wish I had when I started my criminal law class as a 1L. It is a concise, actionable outline filled with what you need for law school success. ***
In my book, 1L Success Guide, I argue that one of the best ways to succeed in law school is to have skeleton outlines prepared...
The 1L Success Guide
Learning the Law, Acing Your Exams, and Getting to the Top of Your Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
GET THE INFORMATION YOU NEED TO GET TOP GRADES IN LAW SCHOOL.
For many, the road to law school success seems blocked by obstacles and filled with potholes. But learning the law and getting good grades on your law school exams is really not that difficult. You just need someone to show you...