TY - BOOK AU - Bouchoux,Deborah E. TI - Legal research and writing for paralegals T2 - Paralegal series SN - 9781543801637 AV - KF240 B68 U1 - 340.072/073 23 PY - 2020///] CY - New York PB - Wolters Kluwer KW - Legal research KW - United States KW - Legal composition KW - Legal assistants KW - Handbooks, manuals, etc KW - Textbooks KW - lcgft N1 - Includes index; Finding the law -- The federal and state court systems -- Statutory law -- Case law and judicial opinions -- Locating cases through digests, annotated law reports, and words and phrases -- Encyclopedias, periodicals, treatises, and restatements -- Miscellaneous secondary authorities -- Legal citation form -- Updating and validating your research -- Special research issues -- The digital library : Lexis advance, Westlaw, and other nonprint research sources -- E-Research : legal research using the internet -- Overview of the research process -- Back to basics -- Strategies for effective writing -- Legal correspondence -- Legal memoranda -- Legal briefs -- Postwriting steps ER -