Legal Writing and Research

General Writing and Research: Writing a Seminar Paper (PowerPoint); Plagiarism, Lack of Original Thought, Double-dipping and Students Draft; Overview of LWR Program at the College of Law; Research Links; Law School Web Sites for Legal Writing; Upper Level Writing Requirement Orientation (video) Fall 2006; Upper Level Writing Requirement Orientation (audio) Fall 2006; Upper Level Writing Requirement Orientation (video) Fall 2007; Upper Level Writing Requirement Orientation (video) Spring 2008

Citation Resources: Intro to Basic Legal Citation (Cornell); Short Form Citation (Cornell) (Univ. of Ark.); Legal Abbreviations; Cite-Checking; Universal Citation

CALI Exercies: Research; Legal Research Methodology; Legal Research 101: The Tools of the Trade; Introduction to Secondary Sources; Periodical Indexes and Library Catalogs; Internet Legal Research; Writing; Punctuation and Grammar Basics for Law Students; Issue Statements for Memos and Briefs; How to Brief a Case; Citation Format; Citation forms for briefs and legal memoranda

Dictionaries and Language Tools: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Oxford English Dictionary; Oxford Law Dictionaries; Findlaw Law Dictionary; Roget’s Thesaurus; American Heritage Book of English Usage; Strunk’s Elements of Style; iTools

Legal Search Engines: CataLaw; Findlaw; Hieros Gamos; Law Crawler

Books containing sample legal memoranda

Veda R.Charrow, et al. Clear and effective legal writing, 3rd ed. (Aspen 2001)
RESERVE KF 250.C452 2001.

Linda H. Edwards. Legal writing: process, analysis, and organization, 3rd ed. (Aspen 2002) RESERVE KF 250.E39 2002.

Teresa J. Reid Rambo and Leanne J. Pflaum. Legal writing by design: a guide to great briefs and memos. (Carolina Academic Press, 2001) RESERVE KF 250.R359 2001

Robin S. Wellford. Legal reasoning, writing, and persuasive argument. (LexisNexis, 2002.)
RESERVES KF250 .W447 2002

Books containing sample appellate briefs

Carole C. Berr. Effective appellate advocacy: brief writing and oral argument, 2nd ed. (West Group, 1999) RESERVE KF 251.B43 1999.

Veda R.Charrow, et al. Clear and effective legal writing, 3rd ed. (Aspen 2001)
RESERVE KF 250.C452 2001.

Linda H. Edwards. Legal writing: process, analysis, and organization, 3rd ed. (Aspen 2002) RESERVE KF 250.E39 2002.

Bryan A. Garner. The Winning Brief: 100 tips for persuasive briefing in trial and appellate courts, 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 2004) RESERVE KF 251.G37 2004

Teresa J. Reid Rambo and Leanne J. Pflaum. Legal writing by design: a guide to great briefs and memos. (Carolina Academic Press, 2001) RESERVE KF 250.R359 2001

Edward D. Re and Joseph R. Re. Brief writing and oral argument, 8th ed. (Oceana 1999)
RESERVE KF 251.R4 1999.

Robin S. Wellford. Legal reasoning, writing and persuasive argument. (LexisNexis 2002) RESERVE KF250.W447 2002.

Videos

Robert C. Berring. Legal research for the 21st century. (West Group, 2001) RES AVTP 383

Robert C. Berring. The West Group research universe. (West Group, 1999) RES AVTP 367