This paralegal-specific introduction has extensive writing and computerized legal research sections, as well as a Student Workbook and software program supplement designed for "hands-on" experience. The book is organized and designed to be easy to read and use with many charts, illustrations, checklists and flowcharts to reinforce concepts.
A new book dealing with the fundamentals of legal writing and research. Each chapter focuses only on the essential skills needed for success in the paralegal field. Topics include primary...
This book is designed to be the only one the student and the professor need for legal research and legal writing.
The book is written for both seasoned practitioners, seeking to add the latest sources and techniques to their research arsenals, and for beginning law students who face a bewildering array of information.
This book is designed for a typical first semester Legal Research and Writing program that focuses on legal research, objective legal writing, and legal analysis. Murray and DeSanctis employ the...
Anyone who has to perform legal research or draft legal documents cannot afford to be without Foundations of Legal Research and Writing, 4th edition.
The text retains the features that earned it such widespread use: - clear, well-organized text for the introductory legal research and writing course, designed specifically for paralegal students - comprehensive...
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book.
This outline covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system (including regional and state reporters, headnotes and the West Key Number System®, citations, and case finding), statutes, constitutions, and legislative history, and ...
In a series of opinions by Chief Justice John Marshall (knowns as the Marshall trilogy), the United States Supreme Court explicitly adopted the doctrines of discovery, inherent tribal sovereignty, ...
The focus of the book is on analogical reasoning in first section and persuasive writing techniques in the second section. Also, each topic is discussed in logical order with every chapter building on that which preceded it.