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The Reimagined Lawyer is the final book from the celebrated legal scholar and humanitarian Bruce Winick, who for decades taught at the intersection of law and mental health at the University of Miami School of Law.

This substantially revised and updated second edition includes discussion of recent judicial, legislative and regulatory college safety mandates, modern risk management and prevention practices, and the explosion in college safety and wellness issues (suicide, active shooter violence, sexual assault, etc.

What evidence exists to support the advice that legal writing professors offer their students? For example, do legal readers really prefer short sentences and the active voice? Is outlining the best way to start a memo or brief? Can a certain font type make a brief more persuasive? Is deductive reasoning the most effective form of legal reasoning? Will a legal writer view the use of the word “clearly” with skepticism? Are judges annoyed by minor grammatical errors or typos? These questions and many more are addressed in The Science Behind the Art of Legal Writing.

Scribes—The American Society of Legal Writers is a respected national organization devoted to improving legal writing.

This publication is an excellent text for both the novice and the experienced professor. The book is designed to be useful in a wide variety of law or business school courses, including a doctrinal course, seminar, graduate law or MBA course, or as a helpful desk reference for nonprofit professionals.

In this book, Tiscione and Weresh seek to articulate, for the first time, the nature of legal writing expertise—the knowledge and experience that often unconsciously guide the decisions of all expert legal writers.

This book introduces students to the essential skills and bodies of knowledge required for competent representation of clients, including highly practical issues such as courtroom etiquette, the psychology of jury trials, ethical considerations, and trial tactics within a legal and procedural framework.

The book provides an overview of the U.S. legal system and cover the U.S. Constitution, judicial systems, sources of law, a guide for students on working with case law, and civil dispute resolution.

This book is designed to give students the background they need to start law school successfully.

This book offers a post-pandemic vision for the future of legal education and charts a path to get there.