Title: Ineffective and Wordy
Product review: Shapo covers all the technical elements of writing a legal memo and brief, and offers appendices with helpful samples of each. The intro/first chapter gives a very nice introduction to the structure of the US Court system, which I found very helpful as a first-year (1L) law student.But it's all downhill from there. Shapo tries to describe how to construct the different parts of legal memos and briefs, but the given examples are sparse and often imperfect.This book would be much more effective if it spent less time describing how to write a good document and more time showing examples of well-written briefs and memos.
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