Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing
by Hames, Joanne B.; Ekern, YvonneEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-04-09
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary
By integrating the basics of legal research, legal analysis and legal writing, this book clarifies the interrelationship of these three competencies and allows readers to experience the total legal research process. Its goal is to provide readers with the basic knowledge and tools needed to research and analyze a legal problem and communicate the results of that research and analysis in different types of legal memoranda. Included in the book are skill-building exercises, sample law book pages and a built-in legal dictionary. This edition features expanded coverage of legal writing, a new chapter on legal correspondence, more on computer assisted legal research, and new appendices that reinforce the integrated approach of the book.
Table of Contents
| Introduction to Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis | |
| The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues | |
| Finding and Analyzing Case Law | |
| How to Brief a Case | |
| Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations | |
| Statutory and Constitutional Analysis | |
| Secondary Sources | |
| Digests | |
| Validating Your Research: Using Shepards, Keycite, and other citators | |
| Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR) | |
| Basic Legal Writing Tools | |
| Predictive Legal Writing: The Memorandum of Law | |
| Persuasive Writing: Writing to the Court | |
| Legal Correspondence | |
| Research and Writing Problems Based on Stated Fact Patterns and Case File Documents | |
| Basic Citation Reference Guide | |
| Research Strategies: An Overview | |
| Defendants Joint Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Opposition to Plaintiffs Motions for Preliminary Injunction: Initial Research Memoranda | |
| Appellate Brief | |
| Case Briefing Practice | |
| Supplemental Cases | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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