Includes index.

Contents: Making the transition -- The United States legal system -- Reading and analyzing statutes and cases -- Researching issues governed by State statutes and regulations -- Researching plan for issues governed by Federal statutes and regulations -- Researching issues governed by common law -- Researching constitutional issues -- Researching issues governed by federal, state or local court rules -- Citators -- Drafting memos -- Drafting memo 1 -- Drafting memo 2 -- Drafting memos requiring other types of analysis -- Drafting e-memos, email and other text messages -- Drafting letters -- Writing a motion brief -- Writing an appellate brief -- Oral advocacy -- Effective writing-the whole paper -- Connections between paragraphs -- Effective paragraphs -- Connections between sentences -- Effective sentences -- Effective words -- Eloquence -- Grammar -- Punctuation -- Mechanics -- Before you practice -- Legal writing for English-as-a-second-language writers --