Chapter 2-The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues

Chapter 3-Finding and Analyzing Case Law

Chapter 4-How to Brief a Case

Chapter 5-Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations

Chapter 6-Statutory and Constitutional Analysis

Chapter 7-Secondary Sources

Chapter 8-Digests

Chapter 9-Validating Your Research: Using Shepards, Keycite and other Citators

Chapter 10-Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): Lexis and Westlaw

Chapter 11-Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet

Chapter 12-Basic Legal Writing Tools

Chapter 13-Predictive Legal Writing: The Memorandum of Law

Chapter 14-Persaussive Writing: Writing to the Court

Chapter 15-Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues

Chapter 16-Legal Correspondence

Appendix A-Research Case Files

Appendix B-Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns

Appendix C-Basic Citation Reference Materials

Appendix D-Research Strategies and Overview

Appendix E-Defendant Joint Memorandum of Points and Authorities in opposition to Plaintiff’s motion for preliminary injunction: Initial Research Memoranda

Appendix F- Appellate Brief

Appendix G-Case Briefing Practice

Appendix H-Supplemental Cases

Appendix I- Answer Key to Test Yourself

Appendix J-U.S. Court System

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