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LAW 102 Legal Research (3)
3 hours lecture per week
Prerequisite(s): Credit in or qualification for ENG 100 or ESL 100.
Comment: LAW 102 may not be audited
LAW 102 provides a working knowledge of the major techniques of legal research and writing. Students will complete assigned problems in legal research and will prepare an office memorandum.
Upon successful completion of LAW 102, the student should be able to:
- Locate relevant authority in law libraries, public libraries and on the Internet for use in drafting case memoranda and briefs;
- Utilize basic Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR), including legal databases (e.g., Lexis or Westlaw, etc.);
- Apply accepted legal citation form (e.g., ALWD or Blue Book);
- Use printed and online citators to find, verify and update cited case law, statutes and other legal authority (e.g, Shepard’s Citator or West KeyCite);
- Research and associate federal and state legislative, statutory, and case materials to one another and legal research problems;
- Prepare an office memorandum exploring both sides of a legal issue.