Publisher's Synopsis
Casenote(R) Legal Briefs PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, Keyed to Courses Using Gillers's Regulation of Lawyers, Thirteenth Edition, is designed to help you save time by providing the facts, black letter law, and holding and decision for the principal cases covered in your casebook. Used as part of a rigorous study regimen, Casenote Legal Briefs can help you spend more time analyzing and critiquing points of law than on copying bits and pieces of judicial opinions into your notebook or outline.
New to this edition:The following cases (new in the Thirteenth Edition of your casebook) are included in Casenote(R) Legal Briefs PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY, Keyed to Courses Using Gillers's Regulation of Lawyers, Thirteenth Edition:
- Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Baldwin
- Disciplinary Counsel v. Holmes & Kerr
- Yeschick v. Minetta
- State v. Bagby
- Maslowski v. Prospect Funding Partners LLC
Casenote(R) Legal Briefs breaks down the major cases in your casebook into a succinct, readable, and uncluttered format that details:
- the nature of the case,
- the issue,
- a summary of the facts,
- the rule of law,
- detailed facts,
- the holding and decision, including dissents and concurrences, and
- a brief comment or analysis of the case.
- Quicknotes following each case define legal terms used in the brief.
- A Glossary in the back of the book lists and defines Latin words and phrases commonly found in the language of the law.
- Quick Reference Rules of Law pages open every chapter and list the rules of law that apply in each case in that chapter.
- How to Brief a Case provides step-by-step instructions on how to format, organize, and write your own case brief with the greatest efficiency.
