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Please try and answer as many parts of this question as you can. Even some answe

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Please try and answer as many parts of this question as you can. Even some answers are appreciated. Thank you.

1) _____________ is designed to persuade someone to take action favorable to the interests of the client or cease acting in a manner that is detrimental to the client.

2) When is rebuttal necessary?

3) Use ___________________sentences to connect sections, subsections, and related topics.

4) __________________ governs the direction of the research and communicates the nature of the dispute.

5) A case is __________________________ if the similarity between the key facts and rule of law or legal principle of the court opinion and those of the client's case if sufficient for the court opinion and those of the client's case is sufficient for the court opinion to govern or provide guidance to a later court in deciding the outcome of the client's case.

6) ____________________ is an earlier court decision on an issue that governs or guides a subsequent court in its determination of an identical or similar issue based on identical or similar key facts.

7)____________________ is a basic principle of the common law system that requires a court to follow a previous decision of that court or a higher court in the jursidiction when the current decision involves key issues and key facts similar to those involved in the previous decision.

8) ______________________ and ___________________________ are the two types of precedent.

9) __________________________ is the analytical process engaged in to determine if and how a decision in a court opinion either governs of affects the outcome of a client's case.

10) ___________________________ describe some key facts that are so insignificantly different that they clearly do not affect the use of a court decision as precedent.

11) ___________________________ describe the notion that a major difference in the key facts does not necessarily result in a determination that the case is not on point. The opinion may still be on point, but the outcome may be different.

12) ____________________________ describe the notion that the key facts of the court's opinion and the key facts of the client's case are different, and the opinion is not on point and does not apply as precedent.

13) The person who appeals a case is known as the _____________________________.

14) _______________________ is a systematic approach to legal writing, an organized approach to legal research, analysis and writing. It is composed of three stages: 1.__________________, 2.__________________, 3.__________________

15) ______________________ is an external memorandum of law submitted to a trial court. It presents to a legal authority and argument in support of a position advocated by an attorney, ususally in regard to a motion or issue being addressed by the court.

16) _______________________ is the skeletal structure and organizational framework of writing. Three aspects of outline are: ________________, _______________, and __________________.

17) This ________________________ stage in the legal writing process is where an assignment is revised, edited, and assembled in final forum.

18) _________________________ is the type of legal writing a paralegal engaged in legal research and analysis most frequently prepares.

19) These are the four major purposes and functions of an office memo:____________________________________________________

20) Most office memos begin with _____________ which is usually brief and at minimum contains the following five items: ___________________________________________________.

21) This section, _________________________________, may also be referred to as a "Background" or "Purpose" section.

22) _____________________________ is a noun created from a verb and weaken a sentence by taking the action away from the actor.

23) _____________________ refers to terms of art used in the legal profession that are not generally known outside the profession.

24) ___________________________ are frequently used in the past that are being phased out of legal writing.

25) _________________________ menas that the items listed are similar in grammatical structure.

26) __________________________ are words or phrases that provide descriptions of the subject, verb, or object in sentence.

27) _________________________ is located in a position in the sentence that makes it unclear whether it modifies the word that precedes it or the word that follows it.

28) __________________________ are marks or characters used in writing to make the meaning clear and easy to understand.

29) __________________________ functions to separate the parts of the sentence.

30) _________________________ is used to separate main or independent clauses in a sentence that are not joined by a coordinating conjunction.

31) The audience for the trial brief is _________________________________.

32) Major constraints on a trial brief are usually imposed by ______________________.

Explanation / Answer

1. _____________ is designed to persuade someone to take action favorable to the interests of the client or cease acting in a manner that is detrimental to the client.

Answer:- Advocacy letter or demand letter.

Such letters are as simple as demanding payment on a debt or as complex as requesting that course of conduct is taken such as rehiring an employee.

2. In law, rebuttal is a form of evidence that is presented to contradict or nullify other evidence that has been presented by an adverse party. Rebuttal is necessary in order to make a person’s defense strong.

3. Transition sentences to connect sections, subsections, and related topics.

A transition sentence is the example to connect the statutory law with the case law. In this the reader is informed why case is being presented.

4. The issue governs the direction of the research and communicates the nature of the dispute.

A well crafted issue informs the reader of the scope of the memo by identifying in a sentence the precise legal question raised by the key facts of the case.