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This outline covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system (including regional and state reporters, headnotes and the West Key Number System®, citations, and case finding), statutes, constitutions, and legislative history, and secondary sources (including treatises, law reviews, digests, and restatements). Also discussed are administrative agencies (including regulations), Shepard's Citations®, KeyCite, legal research using computers, including Westlaw, Lexis, and other online sources, reading and understanding a case (including briefing a case), using legal source books, basic guidelines for legal writing, organizing your research, writing a memorandum of law, writing a brief, and writing an opinion or client letter.*
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Contents
Contents
Introduction and approach
Definitions
Understanding our legal system
Cases
Statutes, constitutions, legislative history, and treaties
Secondary sources
Administrative agencies -- looseleaf materials
Keeping up to date -- using Shepard's and KeyCite
Online legal research
Reading and understanding a case
Searching through legal sources
Legal writing and analysis -- basic guidelines
Organizing the fruits of your research
Writing a memorandum of law
Writing a memorandum of points and authorities or brief
Writing an opinion or client letter
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