Title: The legal research manual : a game plan for legal research and analysis /
Authors: Wren, Christopher G., 1950-; Wren, Jill Robinson, 1954-
Publisher: A-R Editions,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Legal research United States.
Contents: Introduction: about this book -- Preface to the second edition -- Acknowledgments -- Table of figures and illustrations -- Part I: Background: understanding the tools -- Chapter 1: Before you start: sources of the law -- Chapter 2: About citations -- Chapter 3: Gathering and analyzing your facts, and identifying and organizing the legal issues -- Part II: Doing legal research -- Chapter 4: Step one: Finding the law -- Chapter 5: Step two: Reading the law -- Chapter 6: Step three: Updating the law -- Chapter 7: How to take effective notes -- Chapter 8: When to stop -- Part III: Appendices -- Appendix A: Computerized legal research -- Appendix B: Other research sources -- Appendix C: Overview of civil procedure -- Appendix D: Case headnotes and the digesting system -- Appendix E: Briefing a case: Brown v. Board of Education and sample brief -- Appendix F: Answers to shepardizing exercises -- Appendix G: Alphabetical listing of case digest topics (West Publishing Company) -- Appendix H: Subject matter listing of case digest topics (West Publishing Company -- Appendix I: Titles in the United States Code -- Appendix J: Titles in the Code of Federal Regulations -- Appendix K: Researching legislative history -- Appendix L: Definitions of terms frequently encountered in legal research -- Appendix M: Translations of foreign words and maxims frequently encountered in legal research -- Index