Table of Contents

SECTION I. THE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM
Chapter 1 - Skills
Chapter 2 - The Legal System
Chapter 3 - Reading and Briefing Cases

SECTION II. USING THE LAW TO PREDICT AND PERSUADE
Chapter 4 - Using Cases
Chapter 5 - Using Statutes
Chapter 6 - Synthesizing Cases
Chapter 7 - Appellate Advocacy
Chapter 8 - Client Interviews and Negotiation

SECTION III. INDEPENDENT WRITING AND RESEARCH
Chapter 9 - Working Independently

APPENDICES
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Pennsylvania and U.S. Constitutions
Appendix C: Sample Brief and Memorandum
Appendix D: Sample Appellate Briefs
Appendix E: Neff v. Lasso, 555 A.2d 1304 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1989)
Appendix F: Sample Student Memo on International Arbitration Exercise
Appendix G: Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, 526 U.S. 629 (1999)
Appendix H: Answer Key

About the Author

Teresa Kissane Brostoff is Professor and Director of Legal Writing at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She researches, writes, and lectures on legal writing methodology and pedagogy, including methods of teaching international students. Professor Brostoff has taught English for Lawyers in many countries, including Serbia, Ukraine, Kosovo under State Department auspices, Iceland as a distinguished Fulbright Scholar, Japan, Poland, Ethiopia as
an invited lecturer, Belgium as a Fulbright Senior Specialist and member of the EU LLM. faculty, and Bahrain under Department of Commerce sponsorship. Prior to joining the Pittsburgh Law faculty, Professor Brostoff
clerked for the Honorable Justin M. Johnson on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. She also has recently been appointed to the Fulbright Peer Review Selection Committee in Law.

Ann Sinsheimer is Professor of Legal Writing at University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She has extensive experience as a teacher and consultant of legal and technical writing, and of English as a Second Language. She co-teaches a summer intensive program for international lawyers, and has had the opportunity to teach this course overseas in Ethiopia, Serbia, Belgium, Iceland, and other countries. She served as a lecturer and consultant at Carnegie Mellon University and the
University of Michigan's English Language Institute. Before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh, Professor Sinsheimer worked at the University of Oxford's Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.