Essentials of lawyering skills in Africa
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Lagos [Nigeria] :
Malthouse Press
2020.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8948640 |
Sommario:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Foreword
- Table of Cases
- Contents
- PART I
- Chapter 1
- Rhetoric Path: Logos, Pathos and Ethos
- Introduction
- Rhetoric Triangle
- New Rhetoric
- Legal Imagination and Lawyering
- Learning Skills of Rhetoric Analysis
- Ethical Concern about Rhetoric
- Chapter 2
- Technology and Legal Practice
- Introduction
- Changing face of legal services market
- Automation achievements
- Implications of automation to law
- Legal Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Online Legal Services
- Research skills preparatory to online research
- Online Legal Research
- Digital reading
- How to teach technology skills to lawyers
- The doubting "Thomas" lawyers
- Legal education and automation
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3
- Case-Management Skills
- Introduction
- What Is Case-Management?
- Components of Good Case Management
- (i) Identify the client's objective
- (ii) Summarize the Facts
- (iii) Identify and Classify the Legal Issues
- (iv) List Possible Solutions
- (v) Formulate Timelines
- (vi) Discuss Options with Client
- (vii) Identify Character in the Case
- (viii) Develop the Case-Theory
- (ix) Select the Forum
- (x) Final Checklist
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4
- Case Analysis Skills
- Introduction
- What is Legal Analysis?
- Learning Analysis Skills through Practice
- The [Il]Logic of Solomon's Judgment
- (i) Reasoning in Logic
- (ii) Enthymeme in Solomon's Judgment
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- Legal Reasoning
- Introduction
- General Note
- Relationship between Reasoning and Logic
- Methods of Legal Reasoning
- Deductive Reasoning
- Learning Syllogism
- Enthymeme
- Limitations of syllogism
- Important note on logic and enthymeme
- Example
- Analogical Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning: Generalisation
- Conclusion.
- PART II
- Chapter 6
- Legal Memorandum
- Introduction
- History of memorandum
- Legal memorandum in the computer era
- Importance of the legal memorandum
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7
- Writing Technique
- Introduction
- Writing Deficiency
- The IRAC Schemata
- Chapter Content
- Limitations of the IRAC Method
- Critique of the IRAC Template
- Why Some Writing Teachers and Lawyers Continue to Cling to IRAC
- IRAC and the Legal Profession
- Good Writing Entails Persuasion
- Comparing the Persuasive Power of IRAC with the Flexible (Non-IRAC) Styles of Writing
- How to Teaching Robust Legal Writing Skills
- Learning Non-IRAC Writing Schemata
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8
- Judicial Writing
- Introduction
- History of judicial writing
- Why do judge write opinion
- Style of writing
- Collegiate judicial writing
- Appellate construction of facts
- Writing separate opinion
- Judicial clerkship
- Preparing to write
- Facts and issues
- Audience
- Publication
- Final stage of preparing to write
- Chapter 9
- Government Regulatory Analysis
- Introduction
- Why Regulatory Analysis Skill is Important
- Prior Analytical Tool
- Why Regulatory Analysis
- Methodology for Analysing Regulatory
- Explanatory Basis for Regulation
- Non-Economic Justification for regulations
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10
- Opening Statement Presentation
- Introduction
- Effective Opening Statement
- Place of Opening Statement
- Elements of Opening Statement
- Conclusion
- PART III
- Chapter 11
- Rules of Good Writing
- Introduction
- Nature of legal writing
- What constitutes Good Writing
- Clarity
- Conciseness
- Engaging
- The place of elegance in good writing
- Conclusion
- Chapter 12
- Brevity
- Introduction
- Some Mistaken Conception about Brevity
- Lessons from Abraham Lincoln
- Why Brevity Is Essential for Brief Writing.
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13
- Grammar Rules
- Introduction
- Persuasion and Grammar
- How to Eliminate Grammar Errors
- Pathos and Good Grammar
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14
- Writing Style: Referencing Citation, Parenthetical and Punctuation
- 1. Referencing citation
- 2. Explanatory parentheticals
- 3. Legal punctuation
- Conclusion
- PART IV
- Chapter 15
- Case Theory
- Introduction
- What is case theory?
- Illustration of case theory
- Persuasion and case theory
- How lawyers can learn to develop case theory
- Case theory and theme of the case
- How to use case theory to tell the case story
- Case theory and litigation
- Conclusion
- Chapter 16
- Narratives and Storytelling Skills
- Introduction
- Law, Stories and Imagination
- Origin of Imaginative Theory
- Stories and Human Nature
- Stories and Cognition
- Storytelling and Litigation
- Narrative Theory and Storytelling
- Acquiring Storytelling Skills
- Why stories are important
- Narratives and Pleadings
- Conclusion
- Chapter 17
- Visual Legal Writing and Persuasion
- Introduction
- What Is Visual?
- Visual and Cognition
- Why Visual Persuade
- Visuals in Modern Lawyering
- Visuals and Legal Education
- Visual Typologies and Uses
- The Decision to Use Visuals
- Empirical Examples of Visuals
- The Future for Visuals
- Conclusion
- Chapter 18
- Using Non-Legal Materials in Litigation
- Introduction
- The Brandeis Brief Innovation
- Legal Argumentation
- Congenial Situations for Non-Legal Materials
- Ethical Challenges of Use of Non-Legal Materials
- Ethical Safeguard
- Conclusion
- Chapter 19
- Brief Writing
- Introduction
- Preliminary Matters
- Tips for good brief writing
- Conclusion
- PART V
- Chapter 20
- Metaphor Reasoning
- Introduction
- Metaphor and Cognition
- How Metaphor Persuades
- Employing Metaphor in Argumentation.
- Metaphor and Legal Writing
- Learning the Craft of Metaphor
- Legal Imagination and Metaphor
- Conclusion
- Chapter 21
- Figures of Speech in Persuasion
- Introduction
- Schemes and Tropes Figures of Speech
- Conclusion
- PART VI
- Chapter 22
- Persuasion and Professional Responsibility
- Introduction
- Truth as Fundamental Professional Value
- Ethical Conundrum
- Ethical Justification of Rhetoric
- Conclusion
- Index
- Back cover.