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Question: You reprise your earlier role as a paralegal working for an attorney (Mr. Bore Ring) at a small law firm (Howe, Borem, & Laff) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Back in LSTD 504, you had been assigned to research, analyze and write a legal office memorandum for Mr. Ring concerning a then-new client''s case. The underlying fact pattern is attached so that you can refresh your memory.

Mr. Ring liked the legal office memorandum that you submitted for Ms. Lear''s case. He used your memo as a basis for his demand letter to try to get Insure-all to pay for the damage to Ms. Lear''s home. Unfortunately though, that letter did not convince the insurance company to compensate Ms. Lear at all. Therefore, Mr. Ring filed a lawsuit against Insure-all.

Now Mr. Ring wants you to help him with that case by preparing the first draft of the trial court brief. The primary goal of the trial court brief is to try to convince the judge that Insure-all should reimburse Ms. Lear for all of the expenses related to the underground plumbing leak and the related bathroom floor-related damage. Mr. Ring specifically asked that you prepare the brief by using the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis and Conclusion) method.

Your trial court brief should be written according to the CUNY Trial Court Briefing, be no more than 7 pages long, 12 point font, double-spaced. Your analysis must be in your own words. If necessary, you may use one short quotation. You should write as concisely as possible (there is no need for your brief to be 7 pages long if you can condense your work while maintaining accuracy and precision), as you paraphrase and simplify the words of the authors of your selected resources. When writing a trial court brief, all information must be properly cited. Get world-class assignment help from subject experts.

Submit your trial court brief as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx files) so that it can be checked by Turnitin. When you submit your trial court brief, include proof that you located your resources by using either Nexis Uni or Fastcase through the APUS Library.

NOTES:

1. When you submit your assignment, a Turnitin Originality Report will be automatically generated. This functionality has been set so that you can receive an Originality Report each time that you submit your assignment. [I strongly recommend that you submit it (perhaps several times, depending upon how you write) several times before this assignment is due. That way, you can use the Originality Reports for your earlier drafts as a tool to ensure that you will not have any potential plagiarism issues with your final draft, which will be graded.]

3. Ensure that you write formally and use proper grammar, spelling and citations (in text or in footnotes, but not in endnotes). Be especially sure that you include a thesis statement and employ both a rhetorical strategy and perspective.

4. Double check all of your citations before submitting your final version. You MUST use the Bluebook to do this. (This is an often-overlooked part of the multi-phased iterative writing process. Yet it is incredibly significant; real cases have been lost due to inaccurate Bluebook citations or citations that have not been Shepardized!) You cannot rely on the citations that are in your text or in the case(s) you use. This is because sometimes others make mistakes. But it is also primarily because the proper format for a citation is partly determined by the context in which the citation is used.

5. Proofread your paper several times to ensure that you have no errors and to ensure that your paper flows well and is well organized so that your thoughts flow neatly from one idea to the next.