Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing, 6th edition
Published by Pearson (January 12th 2017) - Copyright © 2018
6th edition
ISBN-13: 9780134559841
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Overview
The basics of legal research, analysis, and writing in a practical, relevant approach
Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing gives students the essential knowledge and tools they need to research and analyze a legal problem and communicate the results in diverse forms of legal memoranda. Covering both traditional and free Internet research, the book’s practical, relevant approach provides a number of outstanding teaching and learning aids, among them short memos with hypothetical factual situations for students to research, research and writing exercises and assignments, writing examples and exercises, online research exercises, citation exercises, numerous sample pages and screenshots, legal research problems with answers, checklists for research and writing, and an Instructor’s Manual. The Sixth Edition updates and expands many of the examples and exercises used throughout the text to give students the latest information available.
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 Read and Summarize a Case Law Decision
- Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations
- Statutory and Constitutional Analysis
- Secondary Sources
- Digests
- Validating Your Research: Using Shepard’s, KeyCite, and Other Citators
- Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law
- Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet
- Basic Legal Writing Skills
- The Memorandum of Law: Predictive Legal Writing
- Writing to the Court: Persuasive Writing
- Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues
- Legal Correspondence
APPENDIX A: Research Case Files
APPENDIX B: Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns
APPENDIX C: Legal Citation
APPENDIX D: Research Strategies: An Overview
APPENDIX E: Case Briefing Practice
APPENDIX F: Supplemental Cases
APPENDIX G: Answer Key to “Test Yourself”
APPENDIX J: U.S. Court System
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