Storytelling for lawyers

by Meyer, Philip N.

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Full title :Storytelling for lawyers / Philip N. Meyer.

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Publication Date:2014

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

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Description:IX, 240 p. : : il. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780195396638, 0195396634
oclc:ocn914516900
Dewey Decimal:340.11

Introduction -- I. Lawyers are Storytellers -- II. Legal Arguments are Stories in Disguise -- III. The Parts of a Story -- IV. Movies and Closing Arguments -- Chapter 2 -- Plotting I: The Basics -- I. What is Plot? -- II. Plot Structure in Two Movies -- Chapter 3 -- Plotting II: Plot Structure in a Closing Argument to a Jury in a Complex Torts Case -- I. The "Back Story" -- II. Annotated Excerpts from Spence's Closing Argument on Behalf of Karen Silkwood -- III. Concluding Observations -- Chapter 4 -- Character Lessons: Character, Character Development, and Characterization -- I. Introduction: Why Emphasize Movie Characters in Legal Storytelling? -- II. What is Character, and Why Is It Important to Legal Storytellers? -- III. Flat and Round Characters and Static and Changing Characters-High Noon Revisited -- IV. Techniques of Character Development and Characterization-Excerpts from Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life.