Reading like a Lawyer: Time-Saving Strategies for Reading Law like an Expert by Ruth Ann McKinney
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- 304pp
- Sales Rank: 24,821
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- ISBN-13: 9781594600326
- Edition Description: New Edition
- Edition Number: 1
- Pub. Date: April 2005
- Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: April 2005
- Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
- Format: Textbook Paperback, 304pp
- Sales Rank: 24,821
- ISBN-13: 9781594600326
- ISBN: 1594600325
- Edition Number: 1
- Edition Description: New Edition
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Being an expert reader is characteristic of exceptional lawyers and law students, according to McKinney (U. of North Carolina School of Law). Treating this skill as one that can be developed, she concentrates on strategies for reading law accurately and efficiently in and beyond the law school casebook context. The guide includes critical skill reading exercises and checklists. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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July 20, 2007: When I was asked to teach the 'critical reading curriculum' at The University of Iowa's Phillip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program, I researched methodically to find a text that would be 'on point' as they say in the legal world. Ruth Ann McKinney's Reading Like A Lawyer is just that. Written in an engaging and easy to read style, McKinney teaches prospective and current law students all the skills necessary to successfully understand a variety of legal documents. These skills include learning to brief a law case and analyze casebook law, learning how to decipher the complexities of analyzing statutes, and discovering how to read legal cases outside a law classroom's casebook. The strength of McKinney's text is that she provides you with real edited casebook cases, real-world statutes, and real non-casebook 'i.e. unedited' cases, ready for the reader to read first-hand. McKinney then supplies the student with a list of questions to help them hone valuable legal reading skills. After a student finishes learning how to read a case, and then reads it, a highlighted and annotated version of the same legal case appears, wherein McKinney demonstrates the areas in the case that are important and should have been identified as important by the reader. Reading these annotated cases is akin to entering the mind of an experienced high level attorney as s/he reads and analyzes a case. When I brought McKinney's Reading Like A Lawyer to the attention of the Dean of Students at The University of Iowa's School of Law, Dean R. Chayce Ramey, I was delighted to learn that he often recommends McKinney's text to law students, and that he himself refers to it when teaching legal skills. I was surprised to see so few reviews of McKinney's text, and I suspect part of the reason is that this is one book many competitive law students would like to keep a secret. Well, the secret's out of the bag -- McKinney's book is an outstanding must read for all prospective and current law students! Dr. Ervin Nieves Critical Reading Instructor, Phillip G. Hubbard Law School Preparation Program The University of Iowa
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