Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing, 6th edition

1. Introduction to Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis
2. The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues
3. Finding and Analyzing Case Law
4. How To Read and Summarize a Case Law Decision
5. Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations
6. Statutory and Constitutional Analysis
7. Secondary Sources
8. Digests
9. Validating Your Research: Using Shepard’s, KeyCite, and Other Citators
10. Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law
11. Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet
12. Basic Legal Writing Skills
13. The Memorandum of Law: Predictive Legal Writing
14. Writing to the Court: Persuasive Writing
15. Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues
16. Legal Correspondence

Appendices
A. Research Case Files
B. Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns
C. Legal Citation
D. Research Strategies: An Overview
E. Case Briefing Practice
F. Supplemental Cases
G. Answer Key to “Test Yourself”
H. U.S. Court System