This outline covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system (including regional and state reporters, headnotes and the West Key Number System (R), 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 (R), 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.

Book Information
ISBN 9781642426724
Author Peter Jan Honigsberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 206
Imprint West Academic Press
Publisher West Academic