Brief in 48 hours. Forum

[09042014]

Assuming this is kosher with your honor code or the nature of the assignment - most briefs are based on real conflicts currently pending before the Supreme Court, if you can find the case it is modeled after on westlaw, you should be able to pull up the party briefs and mine them for sources as a shortcut to researching all the issues.

This is against the honor code at most schools.

Good research is against the honor code?!?

[truevines]

Assuming this is kosher with your honor code or the nature of the assignment - most briefs are based on real conflicts currently pending before the Supreme Court, if you can find the case it is modeled after on westlaw, you should be able to pull up the party briefs and mine them for sources as a shortcut to researching all the issues.

This is against the honor code at most schools.

Good research is against the honor code?!?

Yes. at least in my school, we can't pull briefs for similar cases from Westlaw or Lexis. You can't even do a google keyword search.

[bjsesq]

Assuming this is kosher with your honor code or the nature of the assignment - most briefs are based on real conflicts currently pending before the Supreme Court, if you can find the case it is modeled after on westlaw, you should be able to pull up the party briefs and mine them for sources as a shortcut to researching all the issues.

This is against the honor code at most schools.

Good research is against the honor code?!?

Yes. at least in my school, we can't pull briefs for similar cases from Westlaw or Lexis. You can't even do a google keyword search.

Punish people for using directly on point case law. HIGH FIVE!

[Cupidity]

Isn't the whole point of legal writing to copy, paste, and cite people smarter than you? Oh, you made a creative and well reasoned argument? . . . C- ; Oh, you made an unsophisticated argument and cited to the First Circuit, A-!

[merc280]

Isn't the whole point of legal writing to copy, paste, and cite people smarter than you? Oh, you made a creative and well reasoned argument? . . . C- ; Oh, you made an unsophisticated argument and cited to the First Circuit, A-!

well isn't that the whole point of the brief though, to use multiple sources and combine bits and pieces of them to join together and support your argument? our LRW class had a brief writer from the DA's office come and tell us that we're lawyers and not expected to come up with fresh material, just find material smart people have written.

[Cupidity]

Isn't the whole point of legal writing to copy, paste, and cite people smarter than you? Oh, you made a creative and well reasoned argument? . . . C- ; Oh, you made an unsophisticated argument and cited to the First Circuit, A-!

well isn't that the whole point of the brief though, to use multiple sources and combine bits and pieces of them to join together and support your argument? our LRW class had a brief writer from the DA's office come and tell us that we're lawyers and not expected to come up with fresh material, just find material smart people have written.

You must have missed the sarcasm somewhere, we are mocking the fact that schools have honor codes that handicap legal research instead of promoting it.

[NYC Law]

Just finished a 48 hour brief, feels great. It's probably complete and utter crap, but that's a May problem.

[shepdawg]

OP, did you finish?

[NeighborGuy]

How I imagine LRW grading goes:
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That was the funniest goddamn thing I've seen in days. Thank you for that, sir.

[Villanova3]

OP, did you finish?

Almost finished. Need to do citation still. Have five hours left!

[Villanova3]

Finished! At 5:56 am, with two hours left to spare!

[stewie27]

How I imagine LRW grading goes:
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That was the funniest goddamn thing I've seen in days. Thank you for that, sir.

I agree. That was hilarious. And probably accurate.