Legal research, writing & analysis / by Peter Jan Honigsberg, Edith Ho.
2019
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Title
Legal research, writing & analysis / by Peter Jan Honigsberg, Edith Ho.
Published
St. Paul, MN : West Academic, [2019]
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Edition
Thirteenth edition.
ISBN
9781684673292 (electronic bk.)
1684673291 (electronic bk.)
9781642426724
1684673291 (electronic bk.)
9781642426724
Description
1 online resource (206 pages)
System Control No.
on1110013872
(WestAcademic_OCoLC)1110013872
(WestAcademic_OCoLC)1110013872
Summary
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), Shepard's Citations ®, KeyCite, legal research using computers, including Westlaw, Lexis, and other online sources, 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.
Note
Includes index.
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (West Academic, viewed July 18, 2019).
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Table of Contents
Definitions
Understanding our legal system
Cases
Statutes, constitutions, legislative history, and treaties
Secondary sources
Administrative agencies
Keeping up to date : using Shepard's and KeyCite
Online legal research
Reading and understanding a case
Searching through legal sources
Legal writing and analysis : basic guidelines
Organizing the fruits of your research
Writing a memorandum of law
Writing a memorandum of points and authorities or brief
Writing an opinion or client letter.
Understanding our legal system
Cases
Statutes, constitutions, legislative history, and treaties
Secondary sources
Administrative agencies
Keeping up to date : using Shepard's and KeyCite
Online legal research
Reading and understanding a case
Searching through legal sources
Legal writing and analysis : basic guidelines
Organizing the fruits of your research
Writing a memorandum of law
Writing a memorandum of points and authorities or brief
Writing an opinion or client letter.