Memo Writing Help from CALI

If you’re in Legal Writing or another class, you may have a memo to turn in this semester. CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, has online lessons that you can do at your own pace to help you write a better memo:

Issue Statements for Memos and Briefs
This lesson introduces a modern approach to writing issue statements for traditional memos and briefs. The lesson steers users away from single-sentence issue statements. It bases much of its approach on the syllogism.

Stating Facts: Objective and Persuasive Approaches
This lesson is designed to cover how to distinguish legally relevant facts, contextually relevant facts, and nonrelevant facts; plus, how to use each of those types of facts. It is also designed to cover beginning and organizing a statement of facts, writing facts briefly and readably, stating facts objectively, and stating facts persuasively.

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