What's your Issue?
The "issue" should be presented in this sentence.
What is the opening or topic sentence?
The relevant "rules" for many cases can be found here.
What are County and Department policies?
Your case should always present these first.
What are your best or strongest facts?
This is supported by substantiated facts.
What is the "conclusion"?
This is what IRAC stands for.
What is Issue, Rule, Application/Analysis, Conclusion?
The "issue" does this.
What is ask the question that must be answered?
You apply these to the "rules" to ensure a correct legal analysis has been made.
What are the essential facts?
Facts should always be presented objectively using this form of writing.
What expository?
This type of writing organizes and presents facts favorably.
What is persuasive?
These impactful persuasive techniques are used to appeal to the reader or audience.
What are Ethos, Pathos and Logos?
Defining the "issue" this way is a common mistake.
What is too broadly?
In employment cases, the "rules" associated with legal claims against the County are often found here.
What is the EEOC, FLSA, Fair Employment and Housing Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, MOU and the Labor Code?
These writing styles may be used to provide additional context to essential facts.
What are narrative and descriptive?
The "conclusion" should relate back and answer this.
What is the question presented in the "issue"?
Uncovering trustworthy, essential facts (including negative/unfavorable/mitigating facts) to explain how, what, when, where and why something happened is called what?
What is laying the foundation?
Developing the skill to narrowly define "issues" requires this.
What is practice?
Applying the essential facts to the "rule" does this.
What is resolves the "issue"?
We do this to draw a conclusion from a set of given facts using the laws of logic.
What is deductive reasoning?
Prior to reaching a "conclusion", you must first do this.
What is identify and analyze the essential facts.
This part of Legal Storytelling is where the most important and difficult job of "connecting the dots" occurs.
What is the application or analysis section?
In Case Study #1, these are the "issues" for the potential claims of Deputy Johnson.
What are claims of disability (pregnancy) discrimination, failure to accommodate and failure to engage in the interactive process (IPM)?
In Case Study #1, what are the applicable "rules" relating to Deputy Johnson's pregnancy disability?
What is the requirement to interact and identify a reasonable accommodation?
In Case Study #1, these are the relevant facts that should trigger an interactive process meeting (IPM).
What is Deputy Johnson's request for light duty?
This step-by-step process takes a legal/disciplinary/investigation problem or fact pattern and discusses it in an organized way using all 4 writing techniques to "wrap it up".
What is Legal Storytelling?
These 4 types of evidence are commonly used by an investigator to prove or disprove a claim, or to reach or support a conclusion.
What are direct, circumstantial, documentary and demonstrative?