An Advocate Persuades – eBook

About The Author

Joan Malmud Rocklin

Professor Joan Rocklin got her undergraduate degree from Williams College and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of law, serving as an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and graduating Order of the Coif. Joan clerked for Senior Judge William Schwarzer, working on cases from the Third Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the Northern District of California. Afterward, she returned to her home state of New York, working in the litigation department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

She is also the co-author of two best-selling textbooks: An Advocate Persuades and A Lawyer Writes. The textbooks introduce college students to the fundamental analytical and writing skills that the students will need when they begin practicing law. Law students have been known to become unusually attached to the textbooks, bringing them not only to their legal writing classrooms, but also to their summer jobs, to their clinics and externships, and to their first full-time jobs as lawyers.

Sandy Patrick

Professor Sandy C. Patrick is a Professor of Lawyering at the Lewis & Clark Law School. Ms. Patrick earned her JD from the University of Tennessee School of Law.  After her clerkship, she practiced law in Tennessee as an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Appeals and Death Penalty Division, then she went into private practice with the international law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton (now Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton), working primarily in corporate and civil litigation, while also teaching undergraduate law classes at a private university.

Sandy has taught Lawyering and upper-division legal writing courses at Lewis & Clark since 2001. She has also served as the school’s Writing Specialist. Professor Patrick has co-authored two textbooks, An Advocate Persuades and A Lawyer Writes. These textbooks teach law students foundational concepts of legal analysis, critical reading, and communication of that analysis for both predictive and persuasive legal documents.