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Bundle: The Legal Research and Writing Handbook: A Basic Approach for Paralegals, Ninth Edition and Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition

Authors
  • April G. Dawson 
  • Andrea B. Yelin
  • Hope Viner Samborn
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Print Bundle - This bundle includes both print and digital versions of ISBN 9781543826180 and a printed version of ISBN 9798889066941.

Digital Bundle - This bundle includes a digital-only version of ISBN 9798889063964 and a digital-only version of ISBN 9798889066958.

 

More aboutThe Legal Research and Writing Handbook, with clear explanations, examples, and visual aids, the Ninth Edition offers complete coverage of a complex subject in a student-friendly, accessible text.  In this thoroughly updated new edition, Yelin and Samborn continue to keep pace with legal research, citation, and technology in today’s law firms.  This practical text focuses on efficient research processes and techniques for both traditional and electronic sources, along with step-by-step instruction through each stage of the legal writing process, from prewriting strategies, to revising.  The authors provide in-depth coverage of the IRAC method, as well as how to write legal memoranda and legal correspondence.  Throughout, the text focuses on the practical skills paralegals need to know.   The text is enhanced with examples and visual aids, expert writing and practice tips, hands-on exercises, ethics alerts, up-to-date web resources, and easy-to-navigate page design.  Excellent exercises are provided to reinforce student learning.

Bundle also includes Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, First Edition, which is Aspen’s concise primer intended to increase student awareness of the protocols, possibilities, and ethical implications of using AI systems in their legal education studies, while also giving professors assurance that their students are informed of the same.

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About the authors
April G. Dawson

Widely regarded as an expert on the role of technology in legal edu- cation, April Dawson is Associate Dean of Technology and Innovation and Professor of Law at North Carolina Central University School of Law, where she oversees the NCCU Technology Law & Policy Center. Dean Dawson graduated cum laude from Howard University in 1994, where she was on the editorial board of the Howard Law Journal and a member of the National Moot Court Team. After law school, Dean Dawson joined the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she argued cases before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. In 1996, Dean Dawson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, after which she joined a Washington, D.C., law firm as a litigation associate and was a legal writing adjunct at the George Washington University School of Law. In 1999, Dean Dawson moved to North Carolina to start a private practice dedicated to representing employees in cases involving sexual harassment, discrimination, and related disputes. In 2006, she joined the faculty at NCCU and has taught a wide range of classes, including Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Legal Technology Equity and Leadership, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court Seminar, Torts, Administrative Law, and Voting Rights. Dean Dawson has been voted Professor of the Year multiple times. Dean Dawson has presented several American Association of Law Schools (AALS) webinars such as Teaching with Technology for Maximum Student Engagement, Tech Productivity Tips for Law Faculty, and The Paperless Law Prof. She has served on the ABA TECHSHOW pan- els Skills Building: Best Practices for Teaching Tech to Law Students, and Tech Forward: New Jobs for New Lawyers. Dean Dawson was the recipient of the 2021 AALS Technology, Law and Legal Education Section Award, and was a 2022 ABA Women of Legal Tech Honoree. Dean Dawson’s interest in technology can be traced back to her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Bennett College and her work as a computer programmer prior to law school. Dean Dawson is a member of the ABA Center for Innovation Governing Council, cohost of the ABA Innovation Network Podcast, vice chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee, and immediate past chair of the AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education. She is also a member of the North Carolina Governor’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, and vice chair of the Board of Directors for Democracy NC. Dean Dawson cohosts Legal Eagle Review radio show with her col- league, Irving Joyner, on WNCU 90.7 FM, in which weekly interviews shed light on law-related concerns for people in the local community, as well as at the state and national level.

Andrea B. Yelin
Director, Legal Writing Workshop
Loyola University Chicago Law School

Andrea Yelin served for several years as a Legal Reference Librarian at Loyola's Law Library and taught the legal research class for entering law students at Loyola. She attended Vassar College and earned her B.A. degree at Rice University in Houston, and her J.D. and M.S.L.S. degrees at Case Western. She taught legal research and legal writing for Loyola's Institute for Paralegal Studies. She is the co-author of The Legal Research and Writing Handbook (7th ed. Aspen Publishing, 2014); Basic Legal Writing (4th ed. Aspen Publishing, expected 2013); and Contract Law for Legal Professionals (Pearson, 2011). She is a writer for Pearson and Aspen Publishing. Andrea currently teaches courses at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Department at DePaul University.

Hope Viner Samborn

Hope Viner Samborn is a lawyer and freelance writer in Chicago. She earned her J.D. degree at the University of Toledo College of Law and her B.A. degree in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She is the co-author of The Legal Research and Writing Handbook (8th ed. Aspen Publishing, 2018) and Basic Legal Writing (5th ed. Aspen Publishing, 2016.)

Product Information
Edition
Ninth Edition
Publication date
2023-10-23
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
112
Print Bundle
9798892071116
Digital Bundle
9798892071642
Subject
Legal Research , Legal Writing
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