An abundance of solid features makes this text a dependable choice for your classroom: - Utilizes a step-by-step approach to help guide students to understanding effective legal reasoning and writing tactics- Teaches students how to think like a lawyer, discussing key topics such as how to read the law, how to reason about a client's situation, and how to write about it in different legal forms- Uses one case file -- the Home-ElderCare case involving the unauthorized practice of law -- to demonstrate how to carefully analyze a case from the initial client interview through appellate argument- Maintains a pedagogy designed to reach those who learn in different ways, incorporating numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners- Integrates exercises throughout the book -- based on a tort law issue that is particularly understandable for first-year students -- to provide opportunities for active application of skills- Includes a Teacher's Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to use the book effectively, and sample syllabiThoughtful changes to the Third Edition keep the text current for your classroom: - Offers more consideration to transaction-based memos and advice letters- Integrates material on premediation submissions- Includes additional material on pleadings (complaints, answers, and discovery documents)- Provides updated exercises and citation materials