Full Description
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.
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
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
