Legal Argument: The Structure and Language of Effective Advocacy

by James A. Gardner

This book has two main purposes. The first is to explain how lawyers construct legal arguments. It is meant to be a purely practical guide to the process by which lawyers take the raw materials of litigation - cases, statutes, testimony, documents, common sense - and mold them into instruments of persuasive advocacy. The book's second purpose is to explain how to take a well-constructed legal argument and present it, in writing, in a way that legal decision makers will find persuasive. The centerpiece of Legal Argument: The Structure and Language of Effective Advocacy is a step-by-step method, based on the construction of syllogisms, designed to walk the advocate through the process by which such a winning argument may be crafted.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Max Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

An enlightening explanation of the underlying concepts of argumentation in the legal and, also, broader sense.