245 10 |a Legal writing : |b process, analysis, and organization / |c Linda H. Edwards, E. L. Cord Foundation Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

505 0_ |a First things first -- Outlining rules -- Using rules to organize your analysis -- Finding a rule in a statute -- Finding a rule in a case -- Finding a rule from multiple authorities -- Analyzing a single issue : rule explanation -- Analyzing a single issue : rule applicationchapter -- Analyzing a single issue using multiple authorities -- Analyzing multiple issues -- The office memo and the law-trained reader -- Organizing for your reader: the discussion section -- Completing the draft of the office memo -- Citations and quotations -- Revising for usage and style -- Writing professional letters -- Ethics, judges, and briefs -- Structuring the argument: first steps -- Finding and structuring a more favorable rule -- Writing the working draft: first steps -- Refining the arguments : the standard of review and the question presented -- The statement of facts -- Converting the draft to a brief -- Editing the brief -- Oral argument.