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Jan. 16, 2006.
Kristy Moon, editor.
New Displays
Are your eyes tired from reading casebooks? Want to look at something that
is visually interesting?
The next time you come into the Library, look to the right at our display
cases. We have two new displays showcasing law student organizations – Public
Interest Law Association (PILA) and Law Students for Choice (LSFC). And our
“Law School Scholarship” display is constantly updated with new faculty
publications. So if you’re interested in what our faculty has been publishing
lately or need a break from reading cases, take a look at these wonderful
displays created by our staff member Nikki Pike. The
Bluebook & the Washington Style Sheet
The Bluebook is your friend. No? I once heard of a law student who
didn’t try out for the law review simply because she abhorred the Bluebook.
Then I also heard of a law student, who happened to make law review, reading
the Bluebook straight from cover to cover. Whether you take to the
Bluebook or not, you’ll have to learn to use it sooner or later. The
eighteenth edition contains major changes from the seventeenth edition and is
about sixty pages longer, mostly due to Table T.2 (Foreign Jurisdictions)
doubling in size and the Practitioners’ Notes being supplanted with much
lengthier Bluepages, “a how-to guide providing easy-to-comprehend instruction
for the everyday citation needs of first-year law students, summer associates,
law clerks, practicing lawyers, and other legal professionals.”
http://www.legalbluebook.com/about18th.shtml.
Two other major changes are to Rule 18 (Electronic Media and Other Nonprint
Resources) which has been “almost completely rewritten to account for
increasing use of Internet citation,” and to Rule 21 (International Materials)
which has been “completely rewritten to correspond to majority citation
conventions in the foreign and international legal fields.” For a summary of
the changes, see
http://www.legalbluebook.com/about18th.shtml. For a detailed list of
changes, see
http://www.legalbluebook.com/changes.shtml. Many state and federal courts
have their own local citation rules which take precedence over the Bluebook in
documents submitted to those courts. For example, Washington State courts have
its own Style Sheet at
http://www.courts.wa.gov/appellate_trial_courts/supreme/?fa=atc_supreme.style.
For a listing of jurisdiction-specific local citation rules and manuals, see
Bluepages table BT.2 in the Bluebook. Book of the
Week
--Alicia Brillon, Reference Intern
Essential Lawyering Skills: Interviewing, Counseling, Negotiation, and
Persuasive Fact Analysis, by Stefan H. Krieger and Richard K. Neumann, Jr.
KF300 .E84 2003 at Reference Area
Whether you are a 3L who is eagerly anticipating entry into the full-time job
market, or a 1L or 2L who is starting to think like a lawyer, you may find
Essential Lawyering Skills to be a practical guide for taking your client
skills to the next level. This book will help you to improve your skills in
four key areas: interviewing, fact analysis, counseling, and negotiation.
The
interviewing section will guide you through such topics as observation, memory,
facts, and evidence, and then give you specific tactics to use when
interviewing clients and witnesses. Detailed guidance on how to formulate
questions and address embarrassing or sensitive topics are also covered. The
fact analysis section contains easy to understand explanations of various
models of organizing facts, including the chronological model and the “story”
model, and provides information on how to decide which model would be best for
your particular situation. Most importantly, it provides information on how to
respond to opposing counsel’s facts and/or the story he or she has created.
The counseling section takes you through all the stages of counseling a client.
From preparing for an initial meeting to what to do if the client asks for a
recommended course of action, this section will prepare you for an activity
that will no doubt dominate your workday – interacting with your clients. The
last major section, negotiation, probably seems fairly straightforward.
However, after just skimming the table of contents for this section, you will
see that there is much more to this topic than you would initially think. You
will find out how to assess the various parties and their interests, how to
develop a negotiation strategy (adversarial? problem-solving?), and how to
handle particularly difficult adversaries. Essential Lawyering Skills
will provide expert advice on the day to day legal skills that you will use as
you embark on your new profession, and would be an excellent reference tool for
any practitioner. The current edition of this book is in the Reference Area
and the previous edition is in the Classified Stacks under the same call number.
KF300.E84. | 