A Short and Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research

A Short and Happy Guide to Advanced Legal Research
Author: ANN W. LONG
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781640207486

Legal research can be costly for students and practitioners in two ways: time and money. A SHORT & HAPPY GUIDE TO ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH identifies available free and fee-based legal research options as good, cheap and/or fast. This book can streamline the process of legal research involving any subject matter and during any stage of civil litigation. An overview of the litigation analytics and artificial intelligence features available from Bloomberg Law, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw Edge is also included, in the likely event you graduated from law school before 2019. Ann Walsh Long is the Head of Research & Digital Collections/Assistant Professor of Law at the Lincoln Memorial University School of Law. Ann has also worked at the Environmental Protection Agency's Headquarters Library and in four "Big Law" firms. As a former law firm librarian, Ann taught hundreds of summer and new associates how to conduct cost-effective legal research, and advised firms on how best to recover those costs from clients.

A Short and Happy Guide to Contracts

A Short and Happy Guide to Contracts
Author: David G. Epstein
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Contracts
ISBN: 9780314277930

This efficient and exceedingly effective guide to Contracts will help you see the big picture. The authors focus on making the key concepts of contract law, and the relationship among those concepts, easier to understand and retain. The authors have also infused the book with humor, believing there is nothing inconsistent between a rigorous academic experience and having a little fun. Each of the authors is nationally-renowned law teacher who has taught Contracts for decades. Based on that experience, in this book they have set forth understandable techniques for mastering the law governing each critical aspect of the contract relationship, including, contract formation (offer and acceptance), enforcement (consideration and defenses), interpretation, performance, breach, and remedies.

A Short & Happy Guide to Property

A Short & Happy Guide to Property
Author: Paula Ann Franzese
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Property
ISBN: 9780314282415

This efficient and effective Second Edition takes difficult subject matter and makes it understandable, enjoyable and easy to remember. Professor Franzese provides an immensely accessible framework and invaluable techniques for mastering the top ten themes of Property law, adverse possession, the rule of capture, the law of finders, estates and future interests including the dreaded rule against perpetuities), concurrent estates, landlord-tenant law, servitudes, land transactions, the recording system, zoning and eminent domain. This indispensable book also includes helpful exam-taking techniques and some healthy perspectives on converting peace of mind while in law school. Learn from this nine-time recipient of the Professor of the Year Award and nationally acclaimed teacher and become a Property connoisseur! Book jacket.

A Short & Happy Guide to Torts

A Short & Happy Guide to Torts
Author: Roger E. Schechter
Publisher: West Academic Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9780314277879

Softbound - New, softbound print book.

Point Made

Point Made
Author: Ross Guberman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199943850

In Point Made, Ross Guberman uses the work of great advocates as the basis of a valuable, step-by-step brief-writing and motion-writing strategy for practitioners. The author takes an empirical approach, drawing heavily on the writings of the nation's 50 most influential lawyers.

Elements of Legal Writing

Elements of Legal Writing
Author: Martha Faulk
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-05
Genre: Legal composition
ISBN: 9780028608396

This easy-to-use primer lays out 135 principles of clear writing, dictation, tone, grammar, syntax, organization, and format. Filled with before-and-after examples and illustrations from the legal world, the book is both a welcome refresher for the practicing lawyer and an indispensable reference for anyone in the legal profession.

A Short & Happy Guide to Civil Procedure

A Short & Happy Guide to Civil Procedure
Author: Richard D. Freer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2019
Genre: Civil procedure
ISBN: 9781684677238

"This book unlocks civil procedure by explaining doctrine and rules and placing them in context - showing what each doctrine is doing and how each doctrine relates to the others. It includes a chapter on how law school differs from college and what that means for class- and exam-preparation. It provides concrete analytical frameworks for resolving exam questions. And throughout, scores of examples allow you to apply the law to fact patterns."--