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Law in Practice

2nd Edition
Prentiss Cox | Laura Thomas
ISBN: 9781640201422
Subject: Professional Identity Formation
Format: Print & Electronic - Softbound
Page Count: 321
Copyright: 2018 | Status: In Stock

The Law in Practice casebook is the primary text for a turnkey course integrating legal doctrine and lawyering skills that has proven to be successful for first and second-year law students. The course material includes multiple options for litigation and transactional simulations, including client and witness interviews, depositions, client counseling sessions, chambers conference, mediation and attorney only negotiating sessions. The casebook is accompanied by four professionally produced videos and extensive case file materials allowing for integration of legal analysis and skills training in one course. The text covers negotiating theories and concepts necessary to effectively conduct interviews and client counseling. The simulation material allows for weekly or periodic downloads of simulation documents that allow students to see the facts shift as the case unfolds over time, as occurs in actual practice. Detailed faculty materials provide weekly class plans that track the simulation material and include engaging teaching exercises and multiple choice questions appropriate for “clicker” systems.

For more information and additional teaching materials, visit the companion site.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 12/20/2017
Related Subject(s): Lawyering Skills

Prentiss Cox, University of Minnesota Law School

Laura Thomas, University of Minnesota Law School

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The 2d edition of the Law in Practice text includes more than a 50% increase in the size of the text. Additions to the text include the following:

(1) An entirely new unit consisting of five chapters that explicates in detail the application of distributive negotiating theory to litigation.

(2) New chapters on the following: an overview of fact development and the law, including additions of explicated court opinions and appellate brief; use of form documents in legal practice, with an emphasis on transactional practice use; and expansion of prior material on integrative negotiations into separate and new chapters on client counseling with integrative negotiations, explicating the concept of “BATNA” and negotiating in a multi-issue environment.

(3) Addition of dozens of problems, including numerous multiple choice problems appropriate to the use of classroom “clicker” systems.

(4) Inclusion of background material on four professionally produced videos.

(5) New hypothetical case patterns and expansion of prior hypothetical cases, and application of these cases to the concepts of legal practice elaborated in the text.

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