This casebook is uniquely responsive to the suggestions of CLEA's Best Practices and Carnegie's Educating Lawyers. It integrates Carnegie's three apprenticeships--the cognitive/analytical, practical skills and professional identity--by combining the theory and analysis of a traditional casebook with reality-based lawyering exercises that reinforce doctrinal knowledge, develop lawyering skills and introduce professional values. The third edition offers several significant updates, including an introduction to the Restatement's new streamlined approach to estates and future interests, as well as enhanced coverage of mortgages and foreclosures designed to help students appreciate today's headlines.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: American Casebook Series
Publication Date: 11/04/2010
Related Subject(s): Professional Identity Formation

R. Wilson Freyermuth, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law

Jerome M. Organ, University of St. Thomas-MN School of Law

Alice M. Noble-Allgire, Southern Illinois University School of Law

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The third edition offers several significant updates, including an introduction to the Restatement's new streamlined approach to estates and future interests, as well as enhanced coverage of mortgages and foreclosures designed to help students appreciate today's headlines. In furtherance of this book's uniquely skills-attentive pedagogy, the authors are collaborating to develop an online forum devoted to the development and sharing of additional exercises.

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