Hames, Joanne Banker

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