Legal Research, Writing & Analysis
Author: Peter Jan Honigsberg
Publisher: Gilbert Law Summaries
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780314276186
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.