Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! This is the first episode of a four-part series called “Legal Writing Makeover.” In this complete series, we take a piece of legal writing that could use improvement and transform it into legal writing A+, one section of IRAC at a time. We begin by discussing the issue statement.

In this episode we discuss:

An issue statement from a sample exam answer
How to write a good issue statement that earns you the maximum points on an exam

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Resources:

Tutoring for Law School Success
Legal Writing in Law School
Three Cs of Legal Writing…And one T
Five Tips for a Great Legal Writing Assignment
The Elusive Mini-IRAC

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Podcast Episode 489: A Legal Writing Makeover (Part 1 – The Issue Statement)

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