Legal Research Questions

Legal Research Questions

1.  What is the “one good case” theory of legal research?  Your answer should be four to six (4-6) sentences long.  Don’t forget to cite your source.

2.  List and discuss two features on WestlawNext that will help you keep your research organized and help you avoid duplicating previous research.  Your answer should be 4-6 sentences long.  Answer in your own words and do not use quoted material.

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The one good case theory of legal research refers to the situation where a particular researcher has a case and wants to find other cases that are in some way similar to this one good case. This is also referred to as a case in hand. The reason for this is because this case is already one that the researcher has and the researcher will use it in locating other relevant cases which are of similar nature to the one good case (Getting started with online research using Westlaw Next, 2011). The researcher, in finding other relevant cases, uses the headnotes of the one good…

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