- Introduction to Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis
- The Starting Point: Analyzing Facts and Identifying Legal Issues
- Finding and Analyzing Case Law
- How To Read and Summarize a Case Law Decision
- Constitutions, Statutes, and Administrative Regulations
- Statutory and Constitutional Analysis
- Secondary Sources
- Digests
- Validating Your Research: Using Shepard's, KeyCite, and Other Citators
- Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law
- Computer-Assisted Legal Research (CALR): The Freely Accessible Internet
- Basic Legal Writing Skills
- The Memorandum of Law: Predictive Legal Writing
- Writing to the Court: Persuasive Writing
- Motion Practice: Research and Writing Issues
- Legal Correspondence
Appendices
A. Research Case Files
B. Research and Writing Problems Based on Short Stated Fact Patterns
C. Legal Citation
D. Research Strategies: An Overview
E. Case Briefing Practice
F. Supplemental Cases
G. Answer Key to "Test Yourself"
H. U.S. Court System