Legal Research, Writing & Analysis
- ISBN-10
- 0314276181
- ISBN-13
- 9780314276186
- Category
- Legal composition
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-06
- Publisher
- Gilbert Law Summaries
- Authors
- Peter Jan Honigsberg, Edith Ho
Description
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 secondary sources (including treatises, law reviews, digests, and restatements). Also discussed are administrative agencies (including regulations, and looseleaf services), Shepard's Citations®, computers in legal research, reading and understanding a case (including briefing a case), using legal source books, basic guidelines for legal writing, organizing your research, writing a memorandum of law, writing a brief, and writing an opinion or client letter.
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