Impeccable Research A Concise Guide to Mastering Legal Research Skills (Coursebook)

About this book

Unlike conventional legal research books that limit their focus to teaching students how to find and use the various sources of law this book stresses a systematic practice-oriented approach to acquiring legal-research skills. It presents a simple yet highly effective research strategy that helps students efficiently solve the types of complex legal-research problems they can expect to encounter in the workplace. In addition the book includes a section on the various primary and secondary sources of law and how best to find and use them as well as a section containing tips for summer interns and associates and a Trouble-Shooting Guide to help students overcome the occasional obstacles that may crop up in their research projects. The book also includes a detailed Research Checklist for students to use before turning in their work. For these reasons the book makes an ideal stand-alone text for the first-year legal-research class as well as an excellent supplementary text for advanced legal-research classes.