Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Writing (Aspen Coursebook)

Features:

• Utilizes a step-by-step approach
  • guides students through effective legal reasoning and writing tactics
• Teaches how to think like a lawyer
  • how to read the law
  • how to reason a client's situation
  • how to write about the situation in different legal forms
• Uses one case file
  • the HomeElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law
  • demonstrates how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument
• Maintains a pedagogy designed to teach in different ways, with numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners
• Employs vigorous exercises
  • based on tort law issues particularly accessible to first-year students
  • provides opportunities for active application of skills