May 12, 2024  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

LGS 1051 Legal Research & Writing I


Lecture: 4 Lab: 0 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
This course is designed to familiarize the student with primary and secondary sources of law, judicial reports, statutes, citations, digests, annotated law reports, and legal treatises and periodicals. It enables the student to undertake, under the supervision of a lawyer, legal research and preparation of memoranda and briefs. The course also includes an introduction to WESTLAW, CD-ROM, and other computer-based legal research tools.

Prerequisite(s): LGS 1011  or concurrent enrollment