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Sample Factums

Effective Written Advocacy by Thomas A Cromwell
Call Number: KE265. C76 2008 Course Reserves

Collection of essays on written advocacy by prominent judges and lawyers
Point Made: How to Write like the Nation's Top Advocates by Ross Guberman
Call Number: KF251 .G83 2014 Course Reserves

Also available online to the U of T community
Using excerpts from USSC briefs, this book highlights particularly effective written advocacy styles and techniques at a granular level
Preparation of Factums by Thomas A Cromwell
Call Number: KE265 .P746 1996 Course Reserves
The Winning Brief: 100 Tips for Persuasive Briefing in Trial and Appellate Courts, 3rd ed. by Bryan A. Garner
Call Number: KF251 .G37 2014 Course Reserves

Second edition available online to the U of T community
Written Advocacy by James C. Morton
Call Number: KE265 .M67 2013 Course Reserves

Crib Notes on How to Write a Great Factum
Barb Cotton, Bottomline Research, (2018) 37:2 The Advocates' Journal 37
Forget the Wind Up and Make the Pitch: Some Suggestions for Writing More Persuasive Factums
John I. Laskin, JA, Court of Appeal for Ontario
Getting a Judge's Attention
Justice Paul M. Perell of the Ontario Superior Court in Briefly Speaking, April 2009, 30-31.
How to Lose an Appeal in the Court of Appeal: The Next Generation
Justice David Brown of the Ontario Court of Appeal in The Advocates' Journal, Fall 2017
Strategic Legal Writing: Preparing Persuasive Documents
Eugene Meehan/Continuing Legal Education Society of BC, 2002
Writing Up the Facts and Winning Big: Some Secrets of the Best Writers of Legal Submissions
Justice David Stratas of the Federal Court of Appeal
The Wrong Stuff: How to Lose Appeals in the Court of Appeal
Justice Marvin Catzman of the Ontario Court of Appeal in The Advocates' Society Journal, August 2000

International Moot Court: An Introduction by Meghan Spillane
Call Number: KZ1237 .S65 2008 Stacks
Philip C. Jessup Library (HeinOnline)
This database provides access to the competition's problems, judges' briefs, rules, responses, etc. back to 1960.

Appellate Advocacy in an Abbreviated Setting
Justice George Finlayson of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Appellate Advocacy: The Two Big Points
Justice David Brown of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Some Tips on Oral Advocacy from Justice Rothstein
Justice Rothstein of the Federal Court of Appeal

Items designated as Course Reserves are located in the short-term loan collection at the circulation desk.