Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing (6th Edition), William H. Putman, Cengage Learning – Online Instructor’s Manual with Test Bank

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Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing
Sixth Edition

Joanne B. Hames
De Anza College

Yvonne Ekern
Santa Clara University Law School




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, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-455984-1
ISBN-10: 0-13-455984-3
Table of Contents
To the Instructor iv

Syllabi ix

Chapter 1: Introduction to Legal Research, Writing and Analysis 1

Chapter 2: The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues 7

Chapter 3: Finding and Analyzing Case Law 12

Chapter 4: How to Read and Summarize a Case Law Decision 20

Chapter 5: Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations 27

Chapter 6: Statutory and Constitutional Analysis 40

Chapter 7: Secondary Sources 48

Chapter 8: Digests 58

Chapter 9: Validating Your Research: Using Shepards, Keycite and other Citators 65

Chapter 10: Introduction to Lexis Advance, Westlaw, & Bloomberg Law 75

Chapter 11: Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet 81

Chapter 12: Basic Legal Writing Tools 86

Chapter 13: The Memorandum of Law: Predictive Legal Writing 90

Chapter 14: Writing to the Court: Persuasive Writing 95

Chapter 15: Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues 100

Chapter 16: Legal Correspondence 104

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, To the Instructor

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/ssuggested /s sample /sanswers /sfound /sin /san /sAppendix /sto /sthe /stext.




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/sas /sto /sillustrate /stext /smaterial.

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/sanswers /sto /sthe /swriting /sassignment /sare /sgenerally /sprovided /sin /sAppendix /sG.



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