The One Essential Book that Will Help A Lawyer Create Better Workproduct

Effective Lawyering: A Checklist Approach to Legal Writing and Oral Argument by Austen L. Parish and Dennis T. Yokoyama, 2nd Edition, Carolina Academic Press, 2012, is the one book that can help every lawyer create a more polished and professional work product.

This is likely one of the most useful books a new lawyer can buy.  It covers the basic written material a new lawyer will be expected to draft: trial briefs, appellate briefs, memos, letters to clients, and even academic writing.

No, it will not show a junior lawyer all of the most effective strategies for making an argument, but what it does do is help a lawyer to edit a draft of an argument already written and turn it into a polished, effective brief that a court can easily skim. The book provides checklists for trial briefs and appellate briefs. Additionally, it provides some helpful tips on how to prepare for oral argument.

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