About the Book
Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals
Sixth Edition
Deborah E. Bouchoux
Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
2011. 832 pages. ISBN: 978-0-7355-9865-2. Instructor's Manual with Test Banks and PowerPoint slides. (Ancillary materials also included on CD-ROM)
About the Book
Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals is a Revision of successful legal research and writing text for paralegal students.
Features:
- Clear, well-organized text for the introductory legal research and writing course, designed specifically for paralegal students.
- Comprehensive overview of research and writing skills, reinforced by illustrations and exercises.
- Integrates writing strategies into each research chapter to demonstrate the link between the two processes.
- Thorough coverage of electronic research, including a chapter on internet research as well as fee-based services such as LEXIS and Westlaw. Further tips on how to effectively use electronic resources are included throughout the text.
- Helpful charts and diagrams help students understand complex topics.
- Practice Tips in each chapter offer realistic and helpful suggestions for workplace success.
- State Your Answer exercises help students learn how to navigate through cyberspace. These questions require students to access relevant internet sites and locate information, and can be made state-specific.
- Thoroughly explains proper citation form and updating/validating legal authorities.
- Includes samples of legal writing, such as letters, a court brief, and a legal memorandum.
- In-depth Instructor’s Manual includes an overview of the text, sample syllabi, tips on teaching strategies, chapter-by-chapter resource information, answer keys for all assignments, and a Test Bank.
New to the Sixth Edition:
- New sample pages and all new end-of-chapter research and Internet questions are provided.
- All citations in the text are to the new 4th edition of ALWD and the new 19th edition of The Bluebook. Chapter 8 (relating to citation form) includes a list of the most significant changes made to the 19th edition of The Bluebook and the new 4th edition of ALWD.
- Discussion of using Google’s new feature “Google Scholar” to locate cases
- Discussion of the migration of the government’s website offering access to critical government documents from GPO Access to FDsys
- In Chapter 11, discussion of the following new features in Westlaw and Lexis:
- Implementation by West of its new easy-to-use and intuitive platform WestlawNext.
- Discussion of Lexis’s new Easy Search feature and its new feature “Case in Brief”
- Discussion of the fee-based computer-assisted research system Fastcase and its free app for iPhones (allowing free access to the largest free law library on an iPhone) as well as discussion of other law-related “apps”
- Discussion of new websites FederalRegister.gov and Regulations.gov for free access to government materials.
- New assignment in Chapter 11 requiring users to access and use Loislaw
- New assignment in Chapter 11 requiring readers to Shepardize and KeyCite the same cases to illustrate the differences between Shepardizing and KeyCiting
- Enhanced discussing of the use of the IRAC method in legal writing (used to analyze cases) and its variation CREAC
- Revamped section on conducting legislative history research in Chapter 10
- New chart showing where to locate legislative history documents in Chapter 10
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