Offers expert guidance on case planning, including jury selection, opening statements, direct examination, cross-examination, and closing arguments. Also addresses the goals and ethics concerning cross-examinations. Provides valuable recommendations for developing interviewing, discovery, negotiation, and counseling skills.

Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell

Hegland, Kenney

Legal Education

West Group

Provides expert advice that will help strengthen your trial and practice skills. Problem solving, legal writing and argument, case planning, and closing arguments are covered in this text. Also offers guidance for improving your office skills, interviewing techniques, discovery, negotiation, and counseling skills.

Trial and Clinical Skills in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

Rules & Procedures

West Academic Publishing

Like other introductory books, it covers reading and briefing cases, preparing for class, outlining and study groups and taking exams. There are exercises so you can apply what you have learned. In addition to these essentials, the book focuses of what is often elusive: legal analysis; Why do courts follow precedent?; How are cases applied and distinguished?; How is ambiguous language interpreted? There are chapters on legal writing and on oral argument. These chapters will help in first year writing and Moot Court Programs. Additionally, there are chapters revealing the wide array of careers that will be open to students.

Hegland's Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell, 5th

This is a friendly and helpful companion for clinical students and new lawyers as they venture forth. In 115 pages, the book covers topics from solving problems and telling stories, to coping with lies and mistakes, interviewing and counseling clients, investigating and negotiating cases, writing legal memos, making oral arguments, trying lawsuits, and other necessary lawyering skills. Kenney Hegland introduced many to legal education with The Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell. Paul Bennett is a well-known clinician. this title is a wonderful review of the trees and a needed overview of the forest. It’s quite readable: short and happy, quick and funny.

A Short & Happy Guide to Being a Lawyer (Short & Happy Guides)

BENNETT, PAUL

If you’re getting older (or hope to), this quick and easy guide will alert you and your family to problems that lurk and how you can use the law and practical advice to avoid them. Topics include: estate planning, healthcare powers, Medicare, reverse mortgages, grandparent rights, divorce, remarriage, disabilities, homes safety, driving, caring for others, dealing with doctors, hospice, death in the family, and, on a more hopeful note, sex. Skim this book; your family will thank you.

A Short & Happy Guide to Elder Law (Short & Happy Guides)

Fleming, Robert

Family Law

A funny and insightful introduction to the rest of your life. Tens of thousands of lawyers started here. If you join them, you will have a hands-on experience with the difficult but central skill: legal analysis. Then you’ll learn about study skills: briefing cases, making the most of your classes, and taking exams. You’ll practice and critique examples. As a lawyer you’ll write and talk a lot --- therefore, the chapters on legal writing and oral argument will help. Finally you’ll sit back and see how a case develops, from late night advertising to closing argument. Along the way, you’ll find material on ethics, jurisprudence, and finally, bad jokes.

Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

"Growing older? Whats the alternative? You dont have to go it alone. Law professors Kenney Hegland and Larry Frolik are here to help by sharing what theyve learned over the years. Why Did I Walk Into this Room? covers what youll have to deal with: estate planning, home safety, depression, retirement angst, paying for health care, senior moments, hospice, financial scams and elder abuse. The coverage is encyclopedic, but the authors have lightened the load with poems, down-home philosophy and existential musings"--

Why Did I Walk into This Room?: A Thinking Person's Guide to Growing Older

Politics & Social Sciences

Frolik, Lawrence

Social Sciences

Carolina Academic Press

If you are getting older (or hope to), this book is for you. It will save you and your family money, restless nights, and heartbreak. Do I really need a living will? What are living trusts and should I attend a free seminar? How can I protect myself from scams and identity theft? How can I care for my aged parents? What are assisted living facilities and what about nursing homes? How can I recognize elder abuse and what about guns in the home? How can I fight age discrimination? What will be my insurance needs? What are reverse mortgages, Roth IRAs, durable powers of attorney, and disgruntled heirs? Will I have to give up both driving and sex? Need I worry about estate taxes? Should I avoid Probate? Most important, how can I get my family (and myself) to discuss the real problems that will face us? Here they come, ready or not. Not to worry. You don't have to read the entire book. What you need to know right now is in the first four chapters. The rest can wait. This is a serious book about serious times, but, if you re not up for an occasional joke, or poem, just put it back.

Alive and Kicking: Legal Advice for Boomers

Business & Money

Personal Finance

If your parents are growing older, if you are growing older (or at least you hope to), you will face new times and new challenges. This book will help. A law professor and a leading elder law lawyer team up to offer legal and practical advice on retirement issues (finances, housing, health care), walk you through various estate planning options (living trusts, wills, advance directives), and help your family in truly sad times, disability and death in the family. They also help you avoid, and, if that's too late, deal with bad folks: caretakers who abuse elders, obnoxious bill collectors, scam artists, identity thieves, and those discriminate on the basis of age or disability. Alas, there are even legal problems associated with grandparenting and remarriage (the triumph of hope over experience). As to driving and sex, while there is both good and bad news, one message stands out: never at the same time. The topics may be sobering, but the style is not. It's a good read, often funny and even, on occasion, profound. Charles Sabatino, the director of the American Bar Association's Commission on Law and Aging, writes that the book is ''an encyclopedic legal reference with the down-home philosophy and wit of Will Rogers, wryly enriched by poetry, humor, and existential musings.'' Doctor Andrew Weil finds the book ''entertaining and uplifting with very practical and sensible suggestions.'' He will use it himself and will recommend it to patients, friends, and loved ones. Whether you buy this book or not, the time is now to face the new challenges that are hurrying near. How? Sit down for an hour and write a letter to your family, covering such things as end-of-life care, living arrangements in the case of disability, and who gets the grandfather clock. (There is a suggested model in the book.) Discuss your letter with loved ones. You will save you and your family, money, confusion, and heartbreak. Challenges, unaddressed, fester. Professor Hegland has spent his career teaching law, mostly at Arizona but also UCLA and Harvard. He has degrees from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. Author of several legal books, he is known for his wit and clarity. Robert Fleming has spent his career practicing elder law. He lectures nationally and authors a legal treatise used by many of the nation's elder law lawyers. They know their stuff. And now you can too.

New Times, New Challenges: Law and Advice for Savvy Seniors and Their Families

Medical Books

A short, funny, insightful, and occasionally philosophical guide to what you’ll need to know, planning and conducting trials, interviewing and counseling clients, negotiating cases and drafting deals, writing briefs and making oral arguments, solving problems and telling stories and using your computer to make you a better lawyer. And some good poems and bad jokes.

Trial and Lawyering Skills in a Nutshell (Nutshells)

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