LRW Skills Assessment questions well
answers
How attorney's approach a legal problem - correct answer ✔✔Objective analysis: neutral
assessment of a clients problems (both strengths and weakness) to predict the most likely
outcome
Legal research steps - correct answer ✔✔Pprepare to research, look at secondary sources,
examine positive law, examine case law, examine administrative law, examine legislative intent,
then organize, analyze, read and update everything
Steps of a memo/email - correct answer ✔✔Know your client and their question
Research thoroughly
Organize
Write and revise
Edit and Polish
Primary Authority - correct answer ✔✔The law
The Legislature - Statutes, Executive Branch - Regulations, Executive Orders.
The Judiciary - precedent, interpreting a constitutional state or regulatio
Secondary Authority - correct answer ✔✔Commentary on the law.
Law review/journal articles
Legal dictionaries and legislative history
, Mandatory Authority - correct answer ✔✔Law within governing jurisdiction, binding on the
parties
Persuasive Authority - correct answer ✔✔Any legal authority or source of law that a court may
look to for guidance but need not follow when making its decision. (other jurisdiction law and
secondary sources)
Predictive (Objective) writing - correct answer ✔✔neutral assessment that discusses strengths,
weaknesses, and predicts the likely outcome
Persuasive writing - correct answer ✔✔Encourages the reader to focus on arguments that
support client and minimizes any weaknesses in the argument
Three critical reading skills - correct answer ✔✔Get context (5 W'' and H), skim the
text(overview), read the text critically (purpose and relevance)
Deductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔Deductive reasoning, also known as top-down
reasoning, starts with a general statement (the rule) and works its way down to a conclusion
based on evidence
Syllogism - correct answer ✔✔1. All mammals have backbones
2. Humans are mammals
3. Therefore, humans have backbones
Five types of rule structures - correct answer ✔✔1. Simple
2. Elemental
3. Factor
4. Alternative
5. Rules with exceptions
answers
How attorney's approach a legal problem - correct answer ✔✔Objective analysis: neutral
assessment of a clients problems (both strengths and weakness) to predict the most likely
outcome
Legal research steps - correct answer ✔✔Pprepare to research, look at secondary sources,
examine positive law, examine case law, examine administrative law, examine legislative intent,
then organize, analyze, read and update everything
Steps of a memo/email - correct answer ✔✔Know your client and their question
Research thoroughly
Organize
Write and revise
Edit and Polish
Primary Authority - correct answer ✔✔The law
The Legislature - Statutes, Executive Branch - Regulations, Executive Orders.
The Judiciary - precedent, interpreting a constitutional state or regulatio
Secondary Authority - correct answer ✔✔Commentary on the law.
Law review/journal articles
Legal dictionaries and legislative history
, Mandatory Authority - correct answer ✔✔Law within governing jurisdiction, binding on the
parties
Persuasive Authority - correct answer ✔✔Any legal authority or source of law that a court may
look to for guidance but need not follow when making its decision. (other jurisdiction law and
secondary sources)
Predictive (Objective) writing - correct answer ✔✔neutral assessment that discusses strengths,
weaknesses, and predicts the likely outcome
Persuasive writing - correct answer ✔✔Encourages the reader to focus on arguments that
support client and minimizes any weaknesses in the argument
Three critical reading skills - correct answer ✔✔Get context (5 W'' and H), skim the
text(overview), read the text critically (purpose and relevance)
Deductive reasoning - correct answer ✔✔Deductive reasoning, also known as top-down
reasoning, starts with a general statement (the rule) and works its way down to a conclusion
based on evidence
Syllogism - correct answer ✔✔1. All mammals have backbones
2. Humans are mammals
3. Therefore, humans have backbones
Five types of rule structures - correct answer ✔✔1. Simple
2. Elemental
3. Factor
4. Alternative
5. Rules with exceptions
