Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing (2nd Edition) – eBook

The ebook Your Client’s Story: Persuasive Legal Writing, 2nd Edition (ePub.PDF) stands out from other legal writing textbooks by focusing on the foundations of advocating for a client and providing strategies to persuade readers to grant the desired relief. Unlike other textbooks that mainly organize around parts of an appellate brief, this text follows the client-advocacy process from meeting the client to investigating the facts and choosing the appropriate persuasive strategy. It draws inspiration from narrative theory, brain science, and cognitive psychology, making it a comprehensive resource.

The conversational writing style makes it easy to understand, and it demonstrates how classical rhetoric and modern persuasion theory form the basis of effective legal writing. This ebook covers both the trial and appellate levels, bridging the gap between first-year objectives and upper-level skills, externships, and clinic courses. Additionally, professors can customize the sample briefs in the appendices to meet individual needs.

New to the Second Edition:

• Expanded coverage of how to write a powerful conclusion to your brief
• A new chapter on reasoning with facts (inferential reasoning), covering fact synthesis, weight of facts, and drawing negative inferences from the absence of critical facts
• A new chapter on logical fallacies, unique among legal coursebooks, categorizing and describing 16 common logical fallacies, providing examples and guidance on how to spot and avoid them

Professors and students will benefit from:

• This textbook focuses on the question, “How can the lawyer persuade the audience through legal writing?” rather than “What does a brief look like?”
• This ebook puts the facts first. It is the only text on the market to devote several chapters to factual research, fact synthesis, and reasoning with facts.
• The client-centered focus makes this textbook unique in the legal writing market. By learning how to effectively tell “Your Client’s Story,” this book helps students stay grounded in client-based advocacy.
• The ebook includes more extensive coverage of visual design than competing books, including a discussion of visualized legal reasoning.
• The authors have individually and collective written germinal legal scholarship about legal narrative and legal document design. The authors are all prior presidents of the Legal Writing Institute. One of them is the co-editor-in-chief of the legal journal devoted to publishing persuasive-writing articles for practicing attorneys.

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