The responsibility for finalizing a brief or a memorandum of law is often delegated to a junior attorney. Generally, this will require her to utilize skills developed as a first-year law student, such ...

Every law school student knows “shepardizing.” It is the process by which one learns how and in what ways to research a legal case that may have been affected by subsequent cases. Shepardizing is a ...

Law review editors, lawyers, and paralegals are trained to check whether cited legal authorities have been overruled or otherwise abrogated. This is the right thing to do, but it's also the smart ...