Practice IRAC

Practice IRAC

Practice IRAC

Course outcome addressed
in this Assignment:

 Use principles of
sound reasoning.

Instructions

This week you will use
the IRAC paradigm to discuss the legal issues raised by your client’s fact
pattern. Draft a IRAC Brief that:

States the issueIdentifies and explains the rule that governs
that issueApplies the rule to your client’s factsConcludes with a prediction about how the issue
will be decided  

Joe Smith was driving from his home
in Little Rock, AR, to Bentonville, AR. Traveling with him was his dachshund,
Zippy. Zippy was riding in the back seat of Joe’s car. When Joe stopped at a
highway rest stop, he opened the door to let Zippy take a bathroom break but
did not put Zippy’s leash on. Zippy jumped out of the car and ran into the
woods, and Joe was unable to find her. According to the statute and case below,
has Joe committed the offense of Cruelty to Animals?

A person commits the offense of
cruelty to animals if he or she knowingly abandons an animal at a location
without providing for the animal’s continued care. Ark. Code Ann. § 5-62-103
(West).

An act or failure to act is “knowingly done”
if done voluntarily and intentionally and not because of mistake or accident or
some other innocent reason. Sewell v. United States, 406 F.2d 1289
(8th Cir. 1969)

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Your Law School Personal Statement
needs to be organized and structured properly with IRAC.

Now regarding the mechanical form of
the Law School Personal Statement… Once you arrive in in law school you will
be introduced to the IRAC method of organizing your writing:

ISSUE – Identify the issue your writing concerns.

RULE – Identify the Rule of Law that applies to the Issue.

ANALYSIS – Analyze how the Rule applies to the Issue.

CONCLUSION – State your Conclusion based on your analysis.

This IRAC form should be repeated
for every legal issue you have to address in any document you draft for any
court, employer, or client.

Paragraph 1 = Introduction to your
law school admission essay (general answer to question) – worked for a lawyer,
personality type, full investigation, prepared myself, etc. Ex: “It is clear
and unequivocal that the decision to become a lawyer requires extensive
research and preparation. I believe that I have conducted not only a thorough
academic investigation of what is required to become a lawyer but also put
forth significant efforts to discover what it is really like to practice law”
then summarize your justification. (Don’t copy this… enough people view this
website to make plagiarism a significant risk.)

Paragraph 2 = First reason for
wanting to become a lawyer:

ISSUE – “My primary basis for determining that the law is the
proper career path for me concerns a summer internship I had at one of the top
law firms in the state.”

RULE – “Experience is the most efficient teacher and I learned
more about the practice of law from this internship than any other book or
tutorial program.”

ANALYSIS – Talk about your experience, analyze what you did and what
you learned and present same to the reader. “During my tenure at___ I was
responsible for ___…. I learned ___… It felt amazing to accomplish…”

CONCLUSION – Having experienced working at a law firm first hand, I
can confidently state that that the practice of law is the career for me.

Paragraph 3 = Repeat IRAC for your second
reason.

Paragraph 4 = Repeat IRAC for your
third reason.

Paragraph 5 = Summarize and state
your overall conclusion.

So then, going forward with drafting
your law school admission essay; 1) determine your reasons for applying to law
school, 2) pick specific actions or examples that display PAAC and then 3)
outline everything on paper with IRAC 4) then start your formal drafting, 5)
revise over and over and over.
 
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