Legal Skills & Study: Moot Court

Provides an outline or refresher for any type of brief, including: a main brief, reply brief, sur-reply, or appellate brief.

Available electronically in the Wolters Kluwer Study Aid Library.
Includes a section on writing briefs, as well as general guidelines for legal writing.

Explores the nuts and bolts of writing an office memo, a motion memo, and an appellate brief.

Reserves: KF250 .R39 2018
Covers the writing process, writing techniques, and legal documents.

Provides basic and advance techniques to improve presentations, whether in or out of court.

Covers all aspects of preparing for and participating in moots.

Includes trial advocacy strategies specific to moot court and mock trial, tips on writing briefs and preparing for court, and details about competitive moot court and mock trial programs.

Covers preparatory steps, analyzing and researching the problem, drafting the brief, oral argument, competition logistics, and keeping the competition in perspective.

Includes a brief history of oral argument in the Supreme Court, advice on preparation for oral argument, types of questions commonly asked, information about moot courts, and advice on presentation, basic approaches to, and common mistakes in oral argument.