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Off and Running: A Practical Guide to Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing

Angela C. Arey and Nancy A. Wanderer

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  • ISBN: 9781454836155

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    Off and Running is a unique text for the first semester of the 1L legal writing and research course, designed to guide students through their development of the essential skills needed to practice law. Using a single, classroom-tested fact pattern, the authors demonstrate in concrete steps how a first-year associate might approach a legal problem. Students practice these steps and skills on other fact patterns, as they read about this fictional associate.

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    Page Count 276
    Published 03/06/2014
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    Summary of Contents

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: FOUNDATIONS OF LEGAL RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING

    Chapter 2: RESEARCHING YOUR PROBLEM

    Chapter 3: LEGAL ANALYSIS

    Chapter 4: WRITING THE OBJECTIVE MEMORANDUM

    Chapter 5: WRITING EFFECTIVE CLIENT LETTERS AND E-MAILS

    Chapter 6: USING YOUR LEGAL ANALYSIS IN OTHER CONTEXTS

    Chapter 7: EFFECTIVE LEGAL WRITING

    Index

     

  • Author Information

    Nancy Wanderer

    Nancy Wanderer is director of the first year Legal Research and Writing Program at the Law School. She is known for her enthusiasm in working with students and her love of the law, particularly as it relates to women’s and minority rights.

    A former law clerk to Hon. Daniel E. Wathen, past Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Professor Wanderer has frequently made presentations and led workshops on legal writing and analysis for lawyers, law clerks, judges and organizations around Maine and nationwide.

    Professor Wanderer had an earlier career in education, with a focus on counseling and language arts. She first taught writing as a professor at Unity College in Unity, Maine. She became interested in the law while working as associate director for career counseling at Colby College. As drafter of the college's sexual harassment policy, Professor Wanderer was asked to be an advocate for an instructor involved in a sexual harassment case. Deciding that she needed the right credentials, Professor Wanderer enrolled at the University of Maine School of Law, where she earned a JD in 1990.

    Following her clerkship for Justice Wathen, Professor Wanderer worked at the largest law firm in Portland, Maine, representing clients in employment discrimination matters. She also served as an attorney for the executive director of the Maine Health Care Finance Commission. In 2000, Secretary of Defense William Cohen appointed her to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. She served on Maine's Commission on Gender, Justice, and the Courts, as President of the Maine Women's Fund, and as Chair of the Maine State Bar Association’s Committee on the Status of Women Attorneys. Professor Wanderer has also led sessions on opinion-writing for probate judges, both locally and nationally and has been working with the National Center for State Courts since 2006 to develop and present webinars on &"Writing Opinions and Orders in Controversial Cases” for trial and appellate judges from all around the country.

    Angela Arey

    Angela Arey, a 2005 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Maine School of Law, has returned to her alma mater as an instructor in Legal Writing.

    A native Mainer, Professor Arey was Editor-In-Chief of the Ocean and Coastal Law Journal and co-chair of the Environmental Law Society at Maine Law. She served as a law clerk for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and worked in private practice before returning to Maine Law as a faculty member.

    Professor Arey has her own consulting business, providing legal research and writing services to local attorneys. Along with Maine Law Professor Nancy Wanderer, she is writing a textbook on Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing. Professor Arey has three young children, and she enjoys cooking, kayaking, biking, skiing and swimming in the ocean.

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