Suchergebnisse

Student survival guide : learning to learn -- The paralegal profession -- Ethics and professional responsibility -- The American legal system -- Legal research and analysis -- Legal writing and communications -- Interviewing and investigating -- Civil litigation -- Paralegal practice specialties : what paralegals do -- Career strategies : getting a job, keeping a job, and quitting a job -- The law office environment -- Putting it together : strategies for success in the workplace.

Introduction to cite-checking -- The Bluebook trap : typeface conventions -- Citation form for cases -- Citation form for statutes, legislative materials, uniform acts, court rules, and constitutions -- Secondary sources -- Administrative and executive materials -- Electronic databases and the internet -- Punctuation, quotations, omissions, alterations, and parentheticals -- Short forms, signals and related authority -- Putting it together : court and litigation documents; capitalization, and tables of authorities -- The final review.

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.

Finding the law and introduction to legal research -- The federal and state court systems -- Statutory law -- Case law and judicial opinions -- Locating cases through digests and annotated law reports -- Secondary authorities -- Special research issues -- The digital library : Lexis advance, Westlaw, and other nonprint research tools -- E-Research : legal research using the internet -- Legal citation form -- Updating and validating your research -- Overview of the research process.