Essentials of lawyering skills in Africa / Festus Emiri, Ernest Owusu-Dapaa, Ayuba Giwa.

Author/creator Emiri, Festus
Other author Owusu-Dapaa, Ernest, 1976-
Other author Giwa, Ayuba O.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLagos [Nigeria] : Malthouse Press Limited, 2020.
Description493 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Lawyers--Africa. --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Law--Vocational guidance. --Africa.
Law--Africa. --Methodology.
Practice of law--Africa.

Contents PART I -- Chapter 1 -- Rhetoric Path: Logos, Pathos and Ethos -- Introduction -- Rhetoric Triangle -- New Rhetoric -- Legal Imagination and Lawyering -- Learning Skills of Rhetoric Analysis -- Ethical Concern about Rhetoric -- Chapter 2 -- Technology and Legal Practice -- Introduction -- Changing face of legal services market -- Automation achievements -- Implications of automation to law -- Legal Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- Online Legal Services -- Research skills preparatory to online research -- Online Legal Research -- Digital reading -- How to teach technology skills to lawyers -- The doubting "Thomas" lawyers -- Legal education and automation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 -- Case-Management Skills -- Introduction -- What Is Case-Management? -- Components of Good Case Management -- (i) Identify the client's objective -- (ii) Summarize the Facts -- (iii) Identify and Classify the Legal Issues -- (iv) List Possible Solutions -- (v) Formulate Timelines -- (vi) Discuss Options with Client -- (vii) Identify Character in the Case -- (viii) Develop the Case-Theory -- (ix) Select the Forum -- (x) Final Checklist -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Case Analysis Skills -- Introduction -- What is Legal Analysis? -- Learning Analysis Skills through Practice -- The [Il]Logic of Solomon's Judgment -- (i) Reasoning in Logic -- (ii) Enthymeme in Solomon's Judgment -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Legal Reasoning -- Introduction -- General Note -- Relationship between Reasoning and Logic -- Methods of Legal Reasoning -- Deductive Reasoning -- Learning Syllogism -- Enthymeme -- Limitations of syllogism -- Important note on logic and enthymeme -- Example -- Analogical Reasoning -- Inductive Reasoning: Generalisation -- Conclusion -- PART II -- Chapter 6 -- Legal Memorandum -- Introduction -- History of memorandum -- Legal memorandum in the computer era -- Importance of the legal memorandum -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 -- Writing Technique -- Introduction -- Writing Deficiency -- The IRAC Schemata -- Chapter Content -- Limitations of the IRAC Method -- Critique of the IRAC Template -- Why Some Writing Teachers and Lawyers Continue to Cling to IRAC -- IRAC and the Legal Profession -- Good Writing Entails Persuasion -- Comparing the Persuasive Power of IRAC with the Flexible (Non-IRAC) Styles of Writing -- How to Teaching Robust Legal Writing Skills -- Learning Non-IRAC Writing Schemata -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Judicial Writing -- Introduction -- History of judicial writing -- Why do judge write opinion -- Style of writing -- Collegiate judicial writing -- Appellate construction of facts -- Writing separate opinion -- Judicial clerkship -- Preparing to write -- Facts and issues -- Audience -- Publication -- Final stage of preparing to write -- Chapter 9 -- Government Regulatory Analysis -- Introduction -- Why Regulatory Analysis Skill is Important -- Prior Analytical Tool -- Why Regulatory Analysis -- Methodology for Analysing Regulatory -- Explanatory Basis for Regulation -- Non-Economic Justification for regulations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10 -- Opening Statement Presentation -- Introduction -- Effective Opening Statement -- Place of Opening Statement -- Elements of Opening Statement -- Conclusion -- PART III -- Chapter 11 -- Rules of Good Writing -- Introduction -- Nature of legal writing -- What constitutes Good Writing -- Clarity -- Conciseness -- Engaging -- The place of elegance in good writing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 12 -- Brevity -- Introduction -- Some Mistaken Conception about Brevity -- Lessons from Abraham Lincoln -- Why Brevity Is Essential for Brief Writing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 -- Grammar Rules -- Introduction -- Persuasion and Grammar -- How to Eliminate Grammar Errors -- Pathos and Good Grammar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14 -- Writing Style: Referencing Citation, Parenthetical and Punctuation -- 1. Referencing citation -- 2. Explanatory parentheticals -- 3. Legal punctuation -- Conclusion -- PART IV -- Chapter 15 -- Case Theory -- Introduction -- What is case theory? -- Illustration of case theory -- Persuasion and case theory -- How lawyers can learn to develop case theory -- Case theory and theme of the case -- How to use case theory to tell the case story -- Case theory and litigation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16 -- Narratives and Storytelling Skills -- Introduction -- Law, Stories and Imagination -- Origin of Imaginative Theory -- Stories and Human Nature -- Stories and Cognition -- Storytelling and Litigation -- Narrative Theory and Storytelling -- Acquiring Storytelling Skills -- Why stories are important -- Narratives and Pleadings -- Conclusion -- Chapter 17 -- Visual Legal Writing and Persuasion -- Introduction -- What Is Visual? -- Visual and Cognition -- Why Visual Persuade -- Visuals in Modern Lawyering -- Visuals and Legal Education -- Visual Typologies and Uses -- The Decision to Use Visuals -- Empirical Examples of Visuals -- The Future for Visuals -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18 -- Using Non-Legal Materials in Litigation -- Introduction -- The Brandeis Brief Innovation -- Legal Argumentation -- Congenial Situations for Non-Legal Materials -- Ethical Challenges of Use of Non-Legal Materials -- Ethical Safeguard -- Conclusion -- Chapter 19 -- Brief Writing -- Introduction -- Preliminary Matters -- Tips for good brief writing -- Conclusion -- PART V -- Chapter 20 -- Metaphor Reasoning -- Introduction -- Metaphor and Cognition -- How Metaphor Persuades -- Employing Metaphor in Argumentation -- Metaphor and Legal Writing -- Learning the Craft of Metaphor -- Legal Imagination and Metaphor -- Conclusion -- Chapter 21 -- Figures of Speech in Persuasion -- Introduction -- Schemes and Tropes Figures of Speech -- Conclusion -- PART VI -- Chapter 22 -- Persuasion and Professional Responsibility -- Introduction -- Truth as Fundamental Professional Value -- Ethical Conundrum -- Ethical Justification of Rhetoric -- Conclusion -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2022426387
ISBN9789785764352 (paperback)
ISBN9785764354 (paperback)

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