Bøger af Kenney F. Hegland

Offers a concise and entertaining tour of some basic lawyering skills for law students and new lawyers. The authors - two experienced law professors - use humour and apt quotes to introduce (or refresh) readers in many of the basic competencies that lawyers need to acquire.

This guide is a good resource when you are about to start law school or are in your first year. Like other introductory books, it covers reading and briefing cases, preparing for class, outlining and study groups, and taking exams. Exercises are included so that you can apply what you have learned. In addition to these essentials, the book focuses on what is often elusive: legal analysis, why courts follow precedent, how cases are applied and distinguished, and how ambiguous language is interpreted.

A short, funny, insightful, and occasionally philosophical guide to what you'll need to know when planning and conducting trials, interviewing and counselling clients, negotiating cases and drafting deals, writing briefs and making oral arguments, solving problems and telling stories, and using your computer to make you a better lawyer.