Legal research, analysis, and writing / Joanne Banker Hames, Yvonne Ekern.
Material type: TextPublication details: Indianapolis, Ind. : Prentice Hall ; London : Pearson Education [distributor], 2008.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 552 pISBN:- 9780131594807 (pbk.) :
- 9780131594807
- 340.072073 HAM
- KF240 .H36 2008
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Previous ed.: published as Legal research, analysis, and writing. 2006.
Includes index.
Introduction to legal research, writing, and analysis -- The starting point : analyzing facts and identifying legal issues -- Finding and analyzing case law -- How to brief a case -- Constitutions, statutes, and administrative regulations -- Statutory and constitutional analysis -- Secondary sources -- Digests -- Validating your research : using Sheppard\'s , Keycite, and other citators -- Computer assisted legal research (CALR) -- Basic legal writing tools -- Predictive legal writing : the memorandum of law -- Persuasive writing : writing to the court -- Legal correspondence.
By integrating the basics of legal research, legal analysis and legal writing, this book clarifies the interrelationship of these three competencies and allows students to experience the total legal research process. Included in the text are skill-building exercises, sample law book pages and a built-in legal dictionary.