Legal Analysis and Communication

After introducing students to the law and the law school experience, this book parses out the steps comprising legal analysis, including determining what law applies, analyzing enacted law, analyzing case law, synthesizing the law, and applying the law to the facts. Multiple opportunities are included for applying the information learned at each step. Once students have learned the component parts of legal analysis, they learn to communicate that information in the form of a legal memorandum. The book includes especially helpful tools for communicating the analytical framework and for developing fully the individual points within that framework. In addition, the book includes several sample memoranda that students can use for comparison, and a checklist that students can use to assure completeness.Jacobson, M. H. Sam is the author of 'Legal Analysis and Communication', published 2005 under ISBN 9780977274000 and ISBN 0977274004.