This is a book about the process of legal writing. Unlike many other legal writing books, it focuses on the creating and thinking aspects that are fundamental pieces of legal writing. While an effective product is the ultimate goal, the author acknowledges that legal writing cannot be a one size fits all proposition. Because each case for which a document is written is unique, the document's effectiveness is in large part based on the less tangible thinking that precedes production of a concrete and tangible document. The book explains the underlying concepts of these crucial thinking skills...

Designed as a complement to Blumenfeld's Basics of Legal Argumentation and Its Expression, this book provides concrete examples of the concepts presented there. The examples in this book show the implementation of the many abstract concepts of legal writing in a variety of unique situations. Twelve distinct cases provide the basis for working through concepts related to one or more of the phases of creating a legal argument and expressing that argument in writing. In using the more abstract concepts in connection with unique and specific cases, the author establishes that each concept must be...

With its musings on a mountain and its photos over a year's time, this book provides beauty and thought for the reader-observer. Enjoy its offerings In this book, the reader joins the author's year long journey to see, photograph, and reflect upon a local mountain and its surroundings. The author spends a year finding a difference in the everyday sameness, and a sameness in everyday differences. Her musings about many of the views provoke deeper thoughts about our place in the world and the meaning and significance of nature. The book urges us to find our own photos, our own beauty, and...