Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This is the first episode of a four-part series called “Legal Writing Makeover.” In this complete series, we take a piece of legal writing that could use improvement and transform it into legal writing A+, one section of IRAC at a time. We begin by discussing the issue statement.
In this episode we discuss:
- An issue statement from a sample exam answer
- How to write a good issue statement that earns you the maximum points on an exam
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Resources:
- Tutoring for Law School Success
- Legal Writing in Law School
- Three Cs of Legal Writing…And one T
- Five Tips for a Great Legal Writing Assignment
- The Elusive Mini-IRAC
- Podcast Episode 490: A Legal Writing Makeover (Part 2 – The Rule Statement)
- Podcast Episode 491: A Legal Writing Makeover (Part 3 – The Analysis Section)
- Podcast Episode 493: A Legal Writing Makeover (Part 4 – The Conclusion)
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