The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Predictive Writing (Aspen Coursebook)

The Mindful Legal Writer: Mastering Predictive Writing by Professor Heidi K. Brown, who has 15 years of experience in the law firm world and 7 years of teaching legal writing, focuses on predictive legal analysis. It offers law students and junior lawyers a step-by-step approach to learning the scientific framework of written predictive legal analysis, while at the same time encouraging them to consider the artistic nature of communicating through the written word. This book also proposes that students consider the basics of the concept of mindfulness in the legal writing context a recent movement in legal education to encourage law students to be fully conscious and aware of one s actions and surroundings, and pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment (according to mindfulness advocate, Jon Kabat-Zinn) in order to be a better legal counselor to clients.

• • Author: Heidi Kristin Brown
• • Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• • Publication Date: Jan 26, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 334 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1454836180
• • ISBN-13: 9781454836186