Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing

Name: Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing
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ISBN: 9780133060751

ISBN-10: 0133060756

ISBN-13: 9780133060751

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: Joanne Banker Hames, Yvonne Ekern

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LEGAL RESEARCH, ANALYSIS, AND WRITING, 4/efully integrates the basics of legal research, analysis, and writing, bringing together all the basic knowledge and tools students need to research and analyze a legal problem and communicate the results in diverse forms of legal memoranda. It provides many highly realistic research and writing exercises, as well as new tools designed to help students become more effective writers. Throughout, it clarifies the interrelationships among legal research, analysis, and writing, enabling students to experience the total process as it is performed in practice. Reflecting today’s new realities, this edition also contains extensive new coverage of…

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List price: $180.07
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 7/12/2012
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 600
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English




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): Lexis and Westlaw



Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): the Freely Accessible Internet



Basic Legal Writing Tools



Predictive Legal Writing: the Memorandum of Law



Persaussive Writing: Writing to the Court



Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues



Legal Correspondence



Research Case Files



Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns



Basic Citation Reference Materials



Research Strategies and Overview



Defendant Joint Memorandum of Points and Authorities in opposition to Plaintiff's motion for preliminary injunction: Initial Research Memoranda



Appellate Brief



Case Briefing Practice



Supplemental Cases



Answer Key to Test Yourself



U.S. Court System