Gilbert Law Summary on Legal Research, Writing & Analysis

Covers court systems, precedent, case reporting system, statutes, constitutions, and legislative history, and secondary sources. Also discussed are administrative agencies, Shepard's Citations, KeyCite, online legal research, reading and understanding a case, using legal source books, guidelines for legal writing, and organising your research.

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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), Shepard's Citations®, 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.