Legal Research and Writing

This book is also available in print

The Importance of Legal Research -- Step-By-Step Legal Research Process -- Use Commentary to Define and Understand the Issues -- Guidelines for Online Research -- Researching Canadian Federal and Provincial Legislation -- Searching Canadian Case Law -- Restate the Issues and Refine Your Strategy -- Review and Assess the Case Law -- Stare Decisis and Techniques of Legal Reasoning and Legal Argument -- If You Get Stuck -- When to Stop -- Preparing a Legal Memorandum -- Legal Citation -- Appendix 1: Sample Memorandum of Law -- Appendix 2: Suggested Textbooks -- Appendix 3: Glossary.

Legal Research and Writing, Third Edition seeks to explain the practical skills needed for print and online legal research and for legal writing. It provides a current and comprehensive look at the topic, consolidating information on legal research and writing into one handy, easy-to-use resource.

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Writing to Win focuses on the writing of lawyers, not judges, and includes dozens of examples of effective (and ineffective) real-life legal writing—as well as compelling models drawn from advertising, journalism, and fiction. It deals with the challenges lawyers face in writing, from organization to strengthening and editing prose; offers incisive ways of improving arguments; addresses litigation and technical writing in all its forms; and covers the writing attorneys must perform in their daily practice, from email memos to briefs and contracts. This is an eBook.

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In Professor Sankoff’s Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing, Peter shares years of accumulated tips, tricks, and guidance to take your writing to the next level. Designed with busy students and lawyers in mind, the book is filled with practical guidance, examples, and checklists to ensure tips can be easily understood and applied by readers.

This work is a practical legal analysis and writing handbook. Designed for first-year students, it is also a valuable refresher text for more advanced students, and for practitioners. This easy-to-read book features fundamental advice on how to communicate written and oral legal analysis from a problem-solving perspective. It features illustrative examples and templates. The fifth edition includes additional examples and models, and appendices with practice exercises and sample answers, all created in collaboration between one author with recent practice experience and one who has been teaching for over twenty years. It also incorporates professional ethical and technological considerations throughout, while providing learning objectives for each chapter.

Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Writing in Canada, 4th Edition is an effective legal writing tool designed for students entering the legal profession, and for practitioners looking to refresh their legal writing skills

The author provides readers with practical commentary on effective legal research in the context of the complete legal problem solving process, and offer a structured framework to efficiently navigate paper-based resources and online databases.

This is a print book.

Chapters include: The basics of legal research -- Statutes -- Regulations -- Cases -- Analyzing a fact situation -- Preparing for and performing research -- Print research sources -- Online research sources -- Online searches -- Legal encyclopedias : print -- Legal encyclopedias : online -- Finding and updating statutes and regulations -- Finding and updating cases -- A sample research problem : from start to finish -- Legal writing. This is a print book.