Tips & Tricks of Conducting Legal Research
CPD Hours: 2
Price: R100.00
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Presenters : Lisa Thomas
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Overview
Legal research is not only for Constitutional Court judges’ clerks! Candidate attorneys need to learn the basics of conducting legal research to prepare effectively for clients’ matters. Conducting legal research involves going the extra mile to ensure that case law and general legal information is up to date and correctly applied to clients’ matters. There are various sources of legal information with each having a different value in terms of their usage. They need to know these sources and how to use each source.
Join Adv. Lisa Thomas as she opens the realms of legal research to expose candidate attorneys to one the best habits they can practice for their future careers
Learning objectives
By the end of this webinar the attendee should know:
- The attendee will have a background of all the resources for legal research (free and paid)
- The attendee will know how to ensure accurate case law research
- The attendee will understand the research value of difference sources
- The attendee will understand where and how to use each research source
- The attendee will learn how efficient research leads to efficient argument/drafting
Content
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- Sources of legal research
- The value of each research source
- Researching case law: (lower or higher court/appeal/latest decision on the topic/whether decision overturned or not)
- Researching legislation (validity/tested by cases/repealed/amendments/unconstitutional)
- How to use each type of research source effectively
- Efficient researching and a diligent practiioner