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240. Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling,
Negotiation and Persuasive Fact Analysis, Second Edition.
Stefan H. Krieger, Richard K. Neumann, Jr. New York: Aspen
Publishers, 2003. xx, 354 pp. Softbound. New. Special $25.
* Includes recent research and scholarship in all four skills:
interviewing, counseling, negotiation, and fact analysis. Drawing on
years of teaching experience, the author show students how to
organize, analyze, and marshal facts into powerfully persuasive
arguments.  
241. Hall, Kermit L.
A Comprehensive Bibliography of American Constitutional and Legal
History, 1896-1979. [With] Supplement 1980-1987.
Millwood, New York: Kraus International Publications, [1984-91].
Seven volumes. Cloth. As new, excellent condition. $250.
* A comprehensive bibliography of writings on the history of
American legal culture, including books, journal articles, and
doctoral dissertations published in English in the United States.
The dates provided in the title refer to publication dates of
articles and books cited by the author, in fact the bibliography
encompasses United States constitutional and legal history from
Colonial times onward. Selected from over 750 journals and other
sources, 18,000 items are classified in seven topical chapters
arranged chronologically and geographically under 150 subject
sections to create 71,000 entries. Main entries are cross-referenced
and author and subject indexes enhance the use of the bibliography.
The two supplemental volumes provide another 4,000 citations.
242. [Legal Education]. Practicing Persuasive Written and Oral
Advocacy: Case File I.
David W. Miller, Michael Vitiello, Michael R. Fontham. New York:
Aspen Publishers, 2002. x, 188 pp. Softbound. New. Special $17.50
* This annual supplement incorporates issues of service of process
and personal jurisdiction in a format designed to build written and
oral advocacy skills through practice.
243. [Legal Research]. Synthesis. Legal Reading, Reasoning, and
Writing. Second Edition.
Deborah A. Schmedemann and Christina L. Kunz. New York: Aspen
Publishers, [2003]. xxxii, 546 pp. Softbound. New. Special $25.
* The authors prepare students for practice by: teaching them how to
think like a lawyer; how to read the law, how to reason about a
client’s situation, and how to write about it in different legal
forms; taking a step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning
and writing. For each skill, the authors set out steps to follow,
identify factors to consider, detail criteria for effective legal
writing, and explore pertinent ethical principles using one case
file, the HomeElderCare case, for all the examples in the book. This
case involving the unauthorized practice of law demonstrates how to
carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through
appellate argument; providing pedagogy designed to reach those who
learn in different ways, such as incorporating numerous charts and
diagrams for visual learner; exercises based on a tort law issue
that will resonate with first-year students and provide
opportunities for active development skills.
244. [Legal Research]. Basic Legal Research Tools and Strategies.
Second Edition.
Amy E. Sloan. New York: Aspen Publishers, [2003]. xxxi, 377 pp.
Softbound. New. Special $30.
* In addition to teaching critical legal skills, the author fosters
confidence through: a building-block approach that breaks the
material into discrete and comprehensible parts; self-contained
chapters on individual research sources and the research process
that remain useful regardless of how a professor teaches research;
comprehensive coverage of electronic research that allows professors
to introduce as much - or as little - of the topic as they choose.
245. [Legal Writing]. Advanced Legal Writing. Theories and
Strategies in Persuasive Writing.
Michael R. Smith. New York: Aspen Publishers, 2002. xxiv, 360 pp.
Softbound. New. Special $25.
* The book is divided into five main parts that cover: literacy
allusion and its value in persuasive writing; the three basic
processes of persuasion: logic and rational argument, emotional
argument, and establishing credibility; rhetorical style, persuasive
writing strategies based on psychology theory and the moral
implications of being an effective persuasive writer.
246. [Legal Writing]. Better Legal Writing: 15 Topics for Advanced
Legal Writers.
Wayne Schiess. Buffalo, N.Y. : W.S. Hein, 2005. ix, 229 pp.
Softbound. New. $34.95
* An advanced legal writing text designed to improve the writing
skills of lawyers, paralegals and law students by giving them a
readable and accessible book with lots of practical writing advice.
It is further written to motivate lawyers, paralegals and law
students to take legal writing seriously as a distinct and important
discipline, worthy of concentrated and consistent study.
247. [Legal Writing]. Legal Writing: Process, Analysis, and
Organization, Third Edition.
Linda H. Edwards. Aspen Law & Business, 2002. xxix, 447 pp.
Softbound. New. Special $25.
* Provides a step-by-step overview of the process of Legal Writing:
outlining; creating a working draft; developing a final document;
and revising effectively legal analysis linked to the large-scale
organization of the document concrete explanations and examples that
reinforce the materials copious exercises which help students build
their writing skills.
248. Martindale Hubbell Law Directory. 2004 Edition.
New Providence: Martindale Hubbell/LexisNexis. 18 volumes. Complete
set, ex-private law firm library, very good. Publisher’s Price $650.
Special $295.
* Provides basic practice profile data on virtually every attorney
in the U.S. with professional biographies of leading lawyers and
firms, with detailed descriptions of each firm and full biographies
of its members. One of the most comprehensive listing of
international lawyers available, with profiles of lawyers and firms
in 160 foreign countries, as well as U.S. firms with international
interests. Information on almost every in-house lawyer and corporate
legal department. Exclusive lawyer and law firm ratings based upon
peer review evaluations. Also provides law digests of the U.S. and
75 countries, prepared by leading law firms and covering every topic
from Absentees and Affidavits to Divorces and Wills.
249. Matthews, Elizabeth W.
Lincoln as a Lawyer: An Annotated Bibliography. Foreword by
Cullom Davis. xviii; 248 pp. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press, 1991. Frontispiece. Blue cloth. Fine. $20.
250. Szladits, Charles, Compiler.
A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles
in English, 1978-1983. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana
Publications Inc.,[1989]. 5 volumes. Complete set. Original cloth,
negligible shelfwear, internally clean. $150.
* Published posthumously, this is a continuation of the previous
Szladits bibliographies, which cover the years from 1790 to 1977.
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