Legal research, analysis, and writing : an integrated approach /
Legal research, analysis, and writing : an integrated approach / Joanne Banker Hames, Yvonne Ekern. - 2nd ed. - Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006. - xxiii, 498 p. ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction to legal research, writing, and analysis -- Before you begin -- 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 and miscellaneous research tools -- Shepard's and other citators -- Computer assisted legal research (CALR) -- How to create research strategies -- Basic legal writing tools -- Legal writing: writing to inform -- Writing to the court.
0131188887 (pbk.)
2005-005490
Legal research--United States.
Legal composition.
Legal assistants--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--United States
KF240 / .H36 2006
340/.072/073