Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (12 January 2017) © 2018

  • Joanne B. Hames
  • Yvonne Ekern
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Table of contents

  1. Introduction to Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis
  2. The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues
  3. Finding and Analyzing Case Law
  4. How To Read and Summarize a Case Law Decision
  5. Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations
  6. Statutory and Constitutional Analysis
  7. Secondary Sources
  8. Digests
  9. Validating Your Research: Using Shepard's, KeyCite, and Other Citators
  10. Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law
  11. Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet
  12. Basic Legal Writing Skills
  13. The Memorandum of Law: Predictive Legal Writing
  14. Writing to the Court: Persuasive Writing
  15. Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues
  16. Legal Correspondence

Appendices
A. Research Case Files
B. Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns
C. Legal Citation
D. Research Strategies: An Overview
E. Case Briefing Practice
F. Supplemental Cases
G. Answer Key to "Test Yourself"
H. U.S. Court System

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