Legal Research Guides by Course - Advanced Legal Writing: Basics of Litigation

Course Description

This class provides students with the opportunity to enhance their writing skills. Accordingly, students will do several writing and editing exercises for the class. Students will produce a variety of writings with different audiences, purposes and formats. This course is only offered in the summer. (2 credits) Paper

Faculty Who Teach This Course

• Ella Kwisnek (Assistant Dean of Students and Vice Dean of the Evening Division)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by

Print Collection

KF245-KF251 Legal Composition and Draftsmanship
PN147-PN171 Literary Composition and Technique

Legal Research Databases

• Bloomberg Law
• Hein Online
• Legal Scholarship Network
• LegalTrac
• Lexis Advance
• Westlaw Next
• CALI - Legal Writing - http://www.cali.org/category/cali-topics/1l-first-year-lesson-topics/legal-writing
• Legal Writing 201 - http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/Legal/legalwriting.pdf
• Winning Cases with Effective Writing - http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/Legal/stark.html
• Document Preparation (Lexis Hub for New Attorneys) - http://www.lexisnexis.com/community/lexishub/blogs/legaltoolbox/archive/2008/02/04/document-preparation.aspx
• Sharpening Your Legal Writing Skills (Los Angeles County Bar Assn) - http://www.lacba.org/Files/LAL/Vol29No7/2006SG04.pdf
• Writing for Your Audience: The Client - http://www.michbar.org/journal/article.cfm?articleID=449&volumeID=33
• Drafting Legal Documents: a Resource Guide (Seattle University) - http://lib.law.washington.edu/btg/2001/drafting.htm
• Exercises from Legal Writing in Plain English (U Chicago Press) - http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/garner/

Blogs

• Legal Writing.net Blog - http://blogs.utexas.edu/legalwriting/
• Legal Writing Pro Blog - http://www.legalwritingblog.com/
• Law Prose Blog - http://www.lawprose.org/blog/
• Legal Writing Prof Blog - http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/legalwriting/
• The (New) Legal Writer blog - http://raymondpward.typepad.com/newlegalwriter/
• Good Legal Writing - http://goodlegalwriting.com/

DCLI Webpage Links

• Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes, federal and state case law and our constitutions)
• Legal Research Guides: Legal Research and Writing

Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations:

• Civil Litigation
  
  Course Satisfies: Professional Skills Course Requirement

Created by: Patricia Horvath
2/4/2013