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Good lawyers have an ability to tell stories. Whether they are arguing a murder case or a complex financial securities case, they can capably explain a chain of events to judges and juries so that they understand them. The best lawyers are also able to construct narratives that have an emotional imp...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meyer, Philip N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
Forensic orations.
Débats judiciaires.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Forensic orations
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law & society, sociology of law.
Legal systems: courts & procedure.
Legal systems: general.
Company law.
Legal skills & practice.
Legal systems: civil procedure, litigation & dispute resolution.
Jury trials.
Law.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; STORYTELLING FOR LAWYERS; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgment; 1. Introduction; I. Lawyers Are Storytellers; II. Legal Arguments Are Stories in Disguise; III. The Parts of a Story; IV. Movies and Closing Arguments; 2. Plotting I: The Basics; I. What Is Plot?; II. Plot Structure in Two Movies; 3. Plotting II: Plot Structure in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Torts Case; I. The "Backstory"; II. Annotated Excerpts from Gerry Spence's Closing Argument on Behalf of Karen Silkwood; III. Concluding Observations
  • 4. Character Lessons: Character, Character Development, and CharacterizationI. Introduction: Why Emphasize Movie Characters in Legal Storytelling?; II. What Is Character, and Why Is It Important to Legal Storytellers?; III. Flat and Round Characters and Static and Changing Characters- High Noon Revisited; IV. Techniques of Character Development and Characterization: Excerpts from Tobias Wolff 's This Boy's Life; 5. Characters, Character Development, and Characterization in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Criminal Case; I. The "Backstory"
  • II. Annotated Excerpts from Jeremiah Donovan's Closing Argument on Behalf of Louis FaillaIII. Concluding Observations; 6. Style Matters: How to Use Voice, Point of View, Details and Images, Rhythms of Language, Scene and Summary, and Quotations and Transcripts in Effective Legal Storytelling; I. Backstory: Grading Law School Examinations; II. Preliminary Note: "Voice" and "Style"; III. Voice and Rhythm: "Staying on the Surface"; IV. The Use of Scene and Summary: "Showing and Telling"; V. Telling in Different Voices; VI. Perspective or Point of View
  • VII. Several Functions of Perspective: How Does Perspective (Point of View)Work, and What Work Does It Do?VIII. Concluding Observations; 7. A Sense of Place: Settings, Descriptions, and Environments; I. Introduction; II. Dangerous Territory: Contrasting Settings Evoking Danger and Instability in Joan Didion's "The White Album" and the Judicial Opinion in a Rape Case; III. More Dangerous Places Where Bad Things Happen: Use of Physical Descriptions and Factual Details to Create Complex Environments in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants and the Petitioners' Briefs in Two Coerced Confession Cases
  • IV. Settings and Environment as Villains and Villainy in the Mitigation Stories of Kathryn Harrison's While They Slept and the Petitioner's Brief in Eddings v. OklahomaV. Concluding Observations; 8. Narrative Time: A Brief Exploration; I. Introduction; II. The Ordering of Discourse Time; III. Concluding Observations; 9. Final Observations: Beginnings and Endings; Notes; Index

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