Legal research, analysis, and writing
By: Joanne Banker Hames ; Yvonne Ekern
Contributors: Ekern, Yvonne, author
Edition: Sixth edition.
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780134559841
Subjects: Legal research; Legal composition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to legal research, writing, and analysis; title: The starting point : analyzing facts and identifying legal issues; title: Finding and analyzing case law; title: How to read and summarize a case law decision; title: Constitutions, statutes, and administative regulations; title: Statutory and constitutional analysis; title: Secondary sources; title: Digests; title: Validating your research : using Shepard's, keycite, and other citators; title: Introduction to Lexis advance, Westlaw, and Bloomberg law; title: Computer-assisted legal research (CALR) : the freely accessible internet; title: Basic legal writing skills; title: The memorandum of law : predictive legal writing; title: Writing to the court : persuasive writing issues; title: Motion practice : research and writing issues; title: Legal correspondence; title: Research case files; title: Research and writing problems based on short stated fact patterns; title: Legal citation; title: Research and writing problems based on short stated fact patterns; title: Legal citation; title: Research strategies : an overview; title: Case briefing practice; title: Supplemental cases; title: Answer key to "Test yourself" and "Test yourself : writing it right"; title: U.S. court system.