PAR101 Legal Research & Writing I

This course is designed to teach students how to use a law library, to perform legal research, to analyze legal problems, to write legal analysis in a variety of different formats, and to use computers as a research tool. Focus is on how to find legal materials, including federal and state case, constitutional, and statutory law. Students will learn to use digests and other finding tools, and will learn to update their research by shepardizing. Students will prepare case briefs, written analyses of several legal problems using the IRAC method, and an objective interoffice memorandum.