Legal research, analysis, and writing
Subtitle: an integrated approach
By: Joanne Banker Hames, Yvonne Ekern.
Contributors: Ekern, Yvonne.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780131188884
Subjects: Legal research -- United States.; Legal composition.; Legal assistants -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Legal_Analysis_and_Writing
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to legal research, writing, and analysis; title: Before you begin; title: The starting point: analyzing facts and identifying legal issues; title: Finding and analyzing case law; title: How to brief a case; title: Constitutions, statutes, and administrative regulations; title: Statutory and constitutional analysis; title: Secondary sources; title: Digests and miscellaneous research tools; title: Shepard's and other citators; title: Computer assisted legal research (CALR); title: How to create research strategies; title: Basic legal writing tools; title: Legal writing: writing to inform; title: Writing to the court.