Welcome to your first year of law school at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and to my Legal Writing section. The following information will help you prepare for our first class session during Orientation. Legal writing class during Orientation is mandatory, so be sure to attend.

The following four textbooks should be available at the University Bookstore and from online merchants such as Amazon. We will also be using some selections from my own legal writing text, What Are You Trying to Say? A Guide to First-Year Legal Writing. I will put those readings online as I assign them.

• Terrill Pollman, et al., Legal Writing: Examples & Explanations (2d Edition 2014)

• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (19th Edition)

• Tracy L. McGaugh, et al., Interactive Citation Workbook for The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (2014 Edition) -Please make sure to purchase the Bluebook version, not ALWD of the Interactive Citation Workbook.

• Laurel Currie Oates & Anne Enquist, Just Research (4th Edition 2014) – Please attend our first class meeting before purchasing this text.

For the first class meeting, please read Part I of What Are You Trying to Say? and Chapter 2 of Just Research, both linked at the end of this notice. If you do not see the links below, please log in at the top of this screen with your user name and password. The links should appear when you return to this page. You do not have to write out any of the exercises in the reading, but please look them over and be prepared to discuss them in class.

I look forward to meeting you in class. If you have questions, please contact me at c.c.maynull@csuohio.nulledu.

Sincerely,
Claire C. Robinson May
Legal Writing Professor of Law