While your professor can be a huge help when writing your legal memorandums and appellate brief, they are not your only resource. Writing fellows, law librarians, and even this libguide can help you handle the stress that is legal research and writing.
Legal research and writing equips student with the essential tools needed when practicing law; such as analysis and argumentation, research, predictive and persuasive writing, client interviewing, oral advocacy, and professionalism.
Description:
Legal Research, Analysis and Writing I and II:
Introduction to use of a law library, research experience in primary, secondary, and specialized sources of law, practice in proper legal citation form, instruction and practice in legal writing and analysis with primary emphasis on legal memorandum, the research and writing of pretrial motions and appellate briefs with emphasis on preparing and presenting arguments persuasively.
This is a required course for Charleston School of Law full-time 1Ls, along with Contracts, Civil Procedure, Torts and Property.
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