If
you draft a written argument, make it brief (no more than a few pages).
Not exact matches
Drafting (analysis of ideas, evaluation of
arguments, preliminary research, development of paragraphs, and
writing of a rough
draft)
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18 Unlike the extracurricular interscholastic competitions that bear the same name today, the moot courts of this period were mandatory exercises in the law school curriculum, modeled after the «moots» of the Inns of Courts in England.19 The law school professors of the day gave the students a fictitious case and assisted the students in
drafting the pleadings and other documents, preparing the
arguments, and then arguing the case.20 In theory, if not always in practice, these were the forerunners of today's legal
writing classes that emphasize persuasive
writing.
My first year in practice, I found myself repeatedly undertaking tasks for the first time —
drafting discovery,
writing a complaint, taking a deposition, defending a deposition, or handling a first oral
argument.
For example, a freelance lawyer who
drafted an appeal, who
wrote a brief, might do an oral
argument.
There are a wide variety of courts — state and federal, trial and appellate, specialty — and the work can vary widely as well, but typically, clerks read briefs, attend court proceedings,
write bench memoranda analyzing parties»
arguments, advise the judge on the disposition of a case, and
draft opinions.
They include a section upon
written advocacy, which includes the
drafting of legal
argument and proceedings.
The BIICL paper submitted that «a carefully
drafted written submission can, when skilfully used at the oral hearing, enhance the impact of
argument... the use of a skeleton
argument allows the advocate two shots at persuading the court of his case».