Legal Research and Writing

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Legal Research and Writing

• Fall 2007

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Starting with a Statute

• Once you find a relevant statute, a good place to
  begin research is with the annotations

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Lexis Statute annotations
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Lexis Statute Annotations

• Include
• Citing treatises
• Analytical materials
• Cases

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Lexis Components of a Case

• Some parts written by Lexis editors
• e.g. Summary (procedural posture, overview,
  outcome, core terms)
• Headnote components

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Lexis Caselaw Search

• Now search cases, limiting search to headnote
  field
• Search in Legal gt States Legal U.S. gt Texas gt
  Find Cases gt TX State Cases, Combined

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