A Student's Guide to Legal Analysis

Thinking Like a Lawyer

• Author(s): Patrick M. McFadden,
• Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
• Pages: 205
• ISBN_10: 0735523959
  ISBN_13: 9780735523951
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Law / General , Law / Legal Education , Law / Legal Profession , Law / Research ,

Description:... This concise, accessible text provides law students with a way of organizing and thinking about their coursework and about the cases, laws, and regulations they confront every day.Among the features of this book:
- based on the premise that despite the law's complexity, there are three primary questions that recur in different guises throughout legal practice:
- Is there a law?
- Has it been violated?
- What will be done about it?
- brings order to the multitude of legal issues that law students confront in the cases and materials they study
- introduces the dynamics of legal argument
- helps students recognize the basic questions posed in a legal dispute as well as the predictable reasons lawyers give for reaching one resolution or another
- contains a helpful Glossary of Legal Terms and extensive index, as well as a list of suggested readings