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Interactive Study | Legal Treatises

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INTRODUCTION

Treatises are very powerful. We know you are running on fumes now, but do yourself a favor. Take these exercises to heart! Especially Restatements. There are thousands of possible treatises. Some are a single volume, some are barely more than pamphlets, some are a few volumes, and some are dozens of volumes in length. But none is held in higher regard than Restatements.

Restatements, as one attorney put it, are the closest thing to law without being law. They are written by a private publisher (A.L.I.), and thus are secondary authority.

Restatements are well written, highly respected sets of treatises on multiple areas of law.

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Time Sheets




You are required to keep track of your billable hours when working on legal research and writing assignments and to turn them in with your written assignments. Click on the examples of Time Sheets below to zoom in and compare. Yours should look like the Good example.





The Good

Notice the accurate hours and the detailed descriptions.



The Bad

Not a very accurate time sheet. Very little attention to detail.



The Ugly

Obviously created after-the-fact. Don't let your time sheet look like this!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A TIME SHEET that automatically adds up your billable hours. You should keep track of any research or writing you perform on behalf of your client, including training exercises and assignments in this program.

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Law Library Lab . . .

We recommend that you use the Law Library Lab for Restatements, a form of legal treatise, both before starting the law library exercises and after you have completed the exercises (for review). You can always revisit the Labs.



CLICK HERE for the Restatements Lab (Flash Required)

CLICK HERE for the Restatements Lab (Non-Flash)