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Legal Literacy and Communication Skills: Working with Law and Lawyers is a first-of-its-kind text, designed expressly for students in Juris Master, Master of Jurisprudence, and Master of Legal Studies programs. This concise paperback empowers students whose professional background is outside of law with a foundational understanding of the U.S. legal system and insight into what lawyers do. The Second Edition offers a new chapter on understanding litigation documents and dockets, providing students with the tools to find and follow civil lawsuits relevant to their interests. The Second Edition also both expands and streamlines its approach to regulations and administrative adjudication. Developments in generative artificial intelligence are also expanded to foster critical exploration of AI in the legal field. Legal Literacy and Communication Skills covers key concepts, including understanding the roles of legislatures, agencies and courts, recognizing and using basic legal vocabulary in context, reading a variety of legal documents efficiently and effectively, writing law-related reports and correspondence, reading and understanding the function of primary sources of law, including statutes, regulations and cases, understanding the basic elements of a contract and participating in contracting processes, u Understanding the general course and process of litigation and discovery from a client's perspective and recognizing and avoiding the unauthorized practice of law. Students will develop skills to help them find and use legal information for themselves or as part of a collaborative project with attorneys. The text includes exercises built around an ongoing case study and contains helpful "Traditions and Trends" commentary, which puts today's legal landscape into a broader context.
Foundations of legal literacy -- Foundations of the United States legal system -- Foundations of the practice and unauthorized practice of law -- Foundations of reading legal information -- Foundations of legal analysis -- Using the internet for legal research -- Finding and reading secondary sources -- Finding and reading statutes -- Finding and reading regulations and other administrative sources -- Finding and reading cases -- Reading and writing legal citations -- Reviewing contracts : form and organization -- Reviewing contracts : content -- Litigation documents and dockets -- Email and other correspondence -- Working with facts -- Persuasive writing -- Accurate and consistent legal writing -- Clear and concise legal writing -- Appendix A: Tess Williams case file (re: MegaMart) -- Appendix B: Olivia's Beans case file (re: Earth Foods, Inc.) -- Appendix C: Bibliography of online legal glossaries -- Appendix D: Simplified docket in Dell's Maraschino Cherries Co. v. Shoreline Fruit Growers, Inc. -- Appendix E: Dell's Maraschino Cherries Co. v. Shoreline Fruit Growers, Inc.
Jennifer Murphy Romig, Mark Edwin Burge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.