Legal research and writing /
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Author / Creator: | Murray, Michael D., 1965- |
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Imprint: | New York : Foundation Press, 2005. |
Description: | xxix, 682 pages ; 26 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Legal research -- United States. Legal composition. Droit -- Recherche documentaire -- États-Unis. Rédaction juridique. Legal composition. Legal research. United States. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5721586 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the process of law
- Rules of law and legal reasoning
- The life of a case, state and federal court systems, and jurisdiction
- Determining the rule from a single case or other authority
- Determining the applicable rule through statutory interpretation and analysis of multiple authorities
- Organization of legal writing
- The office memorandum and the client letter
- Editing and fine-tuning your writing
- Legal citation
- Introduction to legal research and printed sources of the law
- Federal and state reporters of cases
- Case finders and verification sources: digests, annotated law reports, and Shepard's citations
- Secondary sources of the law: encyclopedias, treatises, law reviews, and periodicals
- Court rules, local rules, and loose-leaf services
- Constitutions and federal, state, and municipal legislation
- Legislative history
- Federal regulatory and administrative law
- Computer assisted legal research
- Strategies for research and determining when you are finished
- Adversarial legal writing
- Pretrial motions
- Motions to dismiss
- Motions for summary judgment
- Appellate advocacy: appeals, writs, standards of review
- Apellate briefs
- Oral advocacy at pretrial, trial and appellate stages
- Strategies for moot court and beyond.