CEPL 25120 - Legal Research and Writing

CEU: (4.2 )

Provides knowledge of primary and secondary legal resources: statutes, annotated law reports, statutory indexes, court reports, court rules, digests, treatises, legal encyclopedias, the Index to legal Periodical, Words and Phrases, Shepard’s Citations, restatements and related law finders. Students prepare a legal memorandum, emphasizing analysis of a fact situation, organization and use of plain English. Extensive use of the law library is involved. Assignment deadline is post-term.