A tremendously valuable resource.
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We have designed each Step as an input for the next Step. For example, you will use facts you collect in Step 1 in your analysis in Step 2. But given the dynamic and reactive nature of legal problem-solving, often you must shuttle between Steps before completing a Step. So, remember that you should view the searching, analytic, and application phases of the toolkit not as linear but as interdependent. View each facet in the context of the others.71
III. JURISDICTIONS
We have written the toolkit for lawyers in Australia, America, and England and Wales and comparable jurisdictions that rely on written advocacy
The toolkit has an Australian bias, but we have also tried to cater for lawyers in other jurisdictions where written advocacy plays an important role in a case’s outcome, especially America and England. For example, in Step 2, we have based most of the tables on English examples. In Step 5, we have provided examples of US sources. Fundamentally, we have taken an approach that depends more on research and writing concepts and methods than on a country’s substantive laws. Even so, Win More Cases will not apply to all jurisdictions that rely on written advocacy. For some places, you will have to think carefully about crucial legal, cultural, and linguistic differences.
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IV. STYLE
The toolkit uses Australian style, with some exceptions
We have followed most Australian conventions on style. But to improve search results for the online version of the toolkit, we have sometimes preferred American spelling (except for the foreword). We have deviated from other conventions where we thought those conventions might make the toolkit harder to read.
V. LINKS
You should open web links in a new browser
The electronic version of this eBook embeds web links into the text using a dark blue font. Depending on your browser and your Adobe Reader72 settings, you may need to right-click the web link and choose ‘Open link in new window’ or ‘Open link in new browser’. To help readers of the paper version of the toolkit, we have footnoted the full URLS for many of the web links—for example, see the way we footnoted the URL for Adobe Reader above. To reduce clutter, we have only footnoted the full URL the first time we mention the web link and not for subsequent references, unless we thought repeating the URL adds value.
VI. CURRENCY
Current to July 2007
We finished most of the toolkit by mid-2007. We have made minor changes since then. The tables in Step 2 date to July 2007. Check our website at www.win-more-cases.com for updates.
71 Steven M Barkan, ‘On Describing Legal Research’ (1982) 80 Michigan Law Review 925; Margot Costanzo, Essential Legal Skills: Problem Solving (1995) 80, 117.
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