Legal research, analysis, and writing : an integrated approach

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hames, Joanne Banker (Author), Ekern, Yvonne (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall , c2006
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to legal research, writing, and analysis
  • 2. Before you began
  • 3. The starting point: analyzing facts and identifying legal issues
  • 4. Finding and analyzing case law
  • 5. How to brief a case
  • 6. Constitutions, statutes, and administrative regulations
  • 7. Statutory and constitutional analysis
  • 8. Secondary sources
  • 9. Digests and miscellaneous research tools
  • 10. Validating your research: using Shepard's and other citators
  • 11. Computer assisted legal research (CALR)
  • 12. How to create research strategies
  • 13. Basic legal writing tools
  • 14. Legal writing: writing to inform
  • 15. Writing to the court