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Legal Communication & Rhetoric: JALWD
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Bret Rappaport*

* © Bret Rappaport 2008. Mr. Rappaport is an adjunct legal writing professor at DePaul University College of Law and a partner with the Chicago law firm of Hardt Stern & Kayne. Prof. Rappaport would like to thank Farzin Parang, a Northwestern Law School student, and David Eitel, a Marquette Law School student, for their assistance with this article. Prof. Rappaport would also like to thank DePaul University College of Law Associate Professor Susan Thrower for her unselfish assistance and unwavering encouragement of his writing and teaching, and Professor Michael R. Smith of University of Wyoming Law School for his invaluable assistance in editing and finalizing the article.