LRW (All Solutions are Correct)

Genres correct answers Recurring document type with predictable conventions Conventions correct answers Parts of genre and the ways the audience expects to be written; Office memo, Email memo, Client letters, Complaints, Trial motions and briefs, Appellate briefs, and Indictments Rhetorical triangle correct answers Audience, Purpose, Persona (how you wanna come across) 3 types of claims correct answers Claims about the law Claims about the facts Claims about how the facts and law should produce an outcome Claims about the law correct answers Legal authorities; law or commentary about law; examples: Constitutions, statutes, cases, regulations, commentaries Claims about the facts correct answers Factual authorities; Use relevant facts from witness statements, client interview, depositions, interrogatories, etc. Claims about how the facts and law should produce an outcome correct answers Legal analysis Citation correct answers Condensed description of information that identifies a particular authority Legal citation correct answers Citations to legal authorities. Just as important as all of the other writing in your document Legal authorities correct answers Sources that contain law or commentary about the law Primary authorities correct answers Legal authorities created by the government Secondary authorities correct answers Authorities that do not have the force of law. Created by anyone - Scholars, practicing lawyers, etc. State court hierarchy correct answers State Courts Alabama Supreme Court Court of Criminal Appeals / Court of Civil Appeals - Intermediate Appellate Court Circuit Court (Have trials) District Court Municipal Court How to cite US Supreme court correct answers Title Number, Abbreviation US Code (USC), Section Symbol, Section Number, Year of Code Federal legislative branch process correct answers First, congress passes statutes