Gilbert Law Summary on Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis

Cvers court systems, precedent, case reporting system, statutes, constitutions, and legislative history, and secondary sources. Also discussed are administrative agencies, Shepard's Citations®, computers in legal research, reading and understanding a case, using legal source books, basic guidelines for legal writing, writing a memorandum of law, writing a brief, and writing an opinion.

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This outline covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system (including regional and state reporters, headnotes and the West Key Number System®, 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, and looseleaf services), Shepard's Citations®, computers in legal research, 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.