Legal research and writing for paralegals
By: Deborah E. Bouchoux
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780735598652
Subjects: Legal research; Legal composition; Legal assistants; Handbooks, manuals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Finding the law; title: The federal and state court systems; title: Statutory law; title: Case law and judicial opinions; title: The use of digests, annotated law reports, and words and phrases; title: Encyclopedias, periodicals, treatises, and restatements; title: Miscellaneous secondary authorities; title: Legal citation form; title: Updating and validating your research; title: Special research issues; title: The digital library: Lexis, Westlaw, and nonprint research sources; title: E-research: legal research using the internet; title: Overview of the research process; title: Back to basics; title: Strategies for effective writing; title: Legal correspondence; title: Legal memoranda; title: Legal briefs; title: Postwriting steps.