Revising contract provisions and discovery documents Bar Exam Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Revising contract provisions and discovery documents Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: How should a legal writer distinguish facts from legal conclusions?
Answer: State concrete, verifiable facts separately from conclusions about what those facts legally establish. Support each conclusion with the governing rule and an explanation of how the facts satisfy or fail to satisfy it.
Flashcard 2: What is the basic structure of a clear legal analysis?
Answer: Use IRAC or CRAC: identify the Issue or Conclusion, state the governing Rule, explain the Application to the legally significant facts, and state the Conclusion. The application should connect each material fact to a specific element or legal rule.
Flashcard 3: What makes a discovery request sufficiently focused and useful?
Answer: It should identify the requested information or documents with reasonable particularity, define relevant terms and time periods, and relate the request to a claim, defense, or proportional discovery need. Avoid vague, compound, duplicative, or unnecessarily overbroad requests.
Flashcard 4: What is the conventional distinction between “shall” and “may” in contract drafting?
Answer: “Shall” is conventionally used to impose a mandatory duty, while “may” ordinarily grants discretion or permission. Because courts sometimes interpret these words inconsistently, clear drafting should state the duty or discretion directly rather than rely on the verb alone.
Flashcard 5: What characteristics should professional legal correspondence generally have?
Answer: It should be accurate, concise, courteous, organized with useful headings or paragraphs, and directed to the recipient’s practical objective. It should state the requested action, relevant deadline, and necessary supporting facts without unnecessary argument.
Flashcard 6: What should a discovery objection contain?
Answer: State the specific legal or factual basis for the objection, explain its scope, and identify whether responsive material will be withheld or produced in part. Under the majority federal practice, objections should be proportional and particularized rather than boilerplate.
Flashcard 7: What should an editor check when revising a pleading?
Answer: Check that the pleading states the required claims or defenses, alleges supporting ultimate facts rather than bare conclusions, uses consistent names and dates, and clearly identifies the requested relief. Remove redundancy, ambiguity, irrelevant matter, and unsupported assertions.
Flashcard 8: What requirements should guide factual statements in an affidavit or declaration?
Answer: Under the majority rule, statements should be based on the declarant’s personal knowledge and include admissible facts, not hearsay, speculation, or legal conclusions. Use first-person factual testimony and identify the source of any fact the declarant can properly establish.
Flashcard 9: How should a writer present unfavorable authority or facts in legal analysis?
Answer: Acknowledge materially unfavorable authority or facts candidly, then distinguish them with legally relevant differences or explain why controlling authority limits their effect. Do not omit or mischaracterize adverse information.
Flashcard 10: What drafting practices reduce ambiguity in a contract provision?
Answer: Use defined terms consistently, place modifiers next to the words they modify, use parallel structure, specify actors and deadlines, and avoid unnecessary synonyms. State conditions, exceptions, remedies, and allocation of risk expressly rather than relying on implication.
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