Introduction to legal method and process

• Covers reading and briefing cases, and stare decisis and res judicata • Reviews the first interview, analysis of the case, negotiations, and pleadings • Examines pretrial motions, disclosure and discovery, and jury considerations • Discusses cases involving constitutional limitations on jurisdiction • Looks at right to hearing cases involving seizures of property • Explains the roots of constitutional criminal procedure •Explores the role of the federal courts and their power to hear cases Includes new developments, gives emphasis to questions of professional responsibility, and a chapter on the criminal justice system. Also contains sections on materials and methods of the study of law, the anatomy of a legal dispute, analysis and synthesis of judicial decisions, and interpretation of statutes.