A "legal memorandum" is a document that lawyers create to summarize and analyze legal issues in a case. It helps lawyers understand and explain their legal arguments to themselves, their colleagues, or the court.
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LegalEase staff attorneys research and
draft legal memoranda for each project, allowing the managing attorney to quickly make strategic decisions on cases.
She also observed various judicial proceedings and prepared
legal memoranda on relevant issues.
Performed extensive research and
prepared legal memoranda on employment discrimination issues; researched issues in estate planning and marital property rights, intellectual property and civil procedure; prepared deposition summaries.
Research and drafting
of legal memoranda are important lawyer tasks and should be required, as these skills are important to the competent handling of legal matters.
Several attorneys failed to adequately supervise the work of subordinate attorneys and forwarded shoddy
legal memoranda regarding the definition of torture to the White House and Department of Defense.
Even if you do not use social media as part of your marketing campaign, lawyers should strive for stylistic perfection in briefs and
other legal memoranda.
Yet neither the CPP nor EPA's
legal memorandum acknowledges that EPA previously affirmed the correctness of the House amendment and § 111 (d) as published in the U.S. Code, under which the CPP is plainly unlawful.
[He] was always available; friendly and supportive; intensely interested in the case; available to prepare numerous
quality legal memoranda which were well written, well reasoned, and well documented; creative but relevant in his approach and recommendations in dealing with very difficult issues; very timely with responses to my requests; able to prepare me for trial on all issues; and able to provide me with thorough, accurate, and winning case law and convincing legal arguments.»
Bloomberg Law, Justis, the
Carswell Legal Memoranda Collection and Court Documents, and Halsburys Laws of Canada and Juris Classeur Quebec published by Lexis Nexis, can expect to benefit from this development.
First, the factual predicate upon which a lawyer bases such an analysis depends primarily upon the accuracy of the client's story, at least at the preliminary stages of a dispute,
when legal memoranda are widely used to assess the viability of potential lawsuits.Second, the law itself is frequently uncertain when applied to the facts of a particular dispute.
In his appearance at the BC Law campus last May, Mukasey acknowledged the controversy but nonetheless defended the former government lawyers
whose legal memoranda condoned waterboarding.
Connie's passion for legal research and legal writing has produced innovative and
effective legal memorandums and factums, that have been submitted to all levels of Courts, in the areas of unreasonable search and seizure, arbitrary detention, the right to a fair trial, the right to counsel, unreasonable delay, and drinking and driving offences.
The White House
requested legal memoranda to support its use of torture and it received those authored by a host of attorneys, including John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Stephen Bradbury.
NLRG's legal research attorneys can provide you with
unbiased legal memoranda for trial and appellate preparation, case evaluation, strategic planning or any other purpose prior to or in support of litigation or transactional analysis.
Our team of attorneys can assist with preparing
persuasive legal memoranda complete with the applicable legal arguments, binding authorities, and citations to ensure acceptance into the courtroom.
He taught me that it wasn't about me, but rather about producing the
best legal memorandum or brief that could be written in a particular case.
NLRG can provide you with
objective legal memorandum for case evaluation, trial and appellate preparation, strategic planning or any other purpose prior to or in support of litigation or transactional analysis.
Reviewed petitions, motions, and briefs that had been filed to determine the issues involved and arguments made, and
prepared legal memoranda for the Judge, including appropriate suggestions.
Legal Assistant — Joseph Soffer, Esq., NY 1993 — 1996 Provided all legal assistance to busy legal office, prepared documents from Dictaphone recordings, created and revised motions, summonses, and complaints, bill of particulars, and
other legal memorandum and documents.
Our skilled attorneys provide objective
legal memoranda for case evaluation, trial and appellate preparation, strategic planning or any other purpose prior to or in support of litigation or transactional analysis.
As a law clerk I read dozens of motions, briefs, and
legal memoranda on a daily basis and constantly see the same errors.
The keyboard is comfortable to use and I can see its appeal for anyone who regularly
writes legal memoranda and briefs.
Grinders spent their days in the office
drafting legal memoranda, performing research, and reviewing documents and evidence.
For a fixed annual fee of $ 3 — 4,000 per jurisdiction, you can access a database
of legal memoranda to complete the task without hiring outside law firms.
This is not
a legal memorandum.
On the same day EPA proposed the CPP, it also published
a legal memorandum that examines, among other issues, the § 112 exclusion.
EPA's
legal memorandum is based on a legal analysis the agency conducted for its Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) in 2005.
As I explained when it launched last July, CARA is an automated research assistant that finds cases relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.
The legal research service Casetext is unveiling a new service today that automatically finds cases that are relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.
As I explained in a post here last summer, CARA — short for Case Analysis Research Assistant — is a tool that automatically finds cases that are relevant to
legal memoranda and briefs.