Practice

Memo and brief writing practice

Write the part of a memo or brief that carries the citations, from a task file and a library of real authorities. Check my citations runs the document checker on your draft and marks each citation it finds, with the book section behind every finding.

Office memo
Office memo: does the court defer to the agency?
Write the discussion section of a short office memo on the standard a federal court now applies to an agency's reading of a statute.
About 40 minutes
Open the task: Office memo: does the court defer to the agency?
Brief
Brief: read the statute in context
Write the first argument point of a brief challenging an agency's broad reading of a statutory phrase.
About 40 minutes
Open the task: Brief: read the statute in context

How a task works

Read the assignment and the library in the task file. The library gives each authority's citation and what it says.
Write in the answer box. Italicize case names with the I button; the word count runs as you write.
Choose Check my citations. Each citation the checker finds is marked and numbered in your draft, with its findings.
Read your draft against the self-review list, then open the model answer.

“Check my citations” runs the document checker on your draft, so it uses one of your checks: 3 a day on the free trial, up to 4,000 characters, or 50 documents a month with the yearly toolset, which opens after the Kindle launch period.

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Office memo: does the court defer to the agency?

Brief: read the statute in context

How a task works