Legal Research
- target specific topic or legal question
- sources are books, texts, law and supreme court cases. They give idea to answer legal question.
- justifying circumstance or self-defense for example. Have the set of facts then do research about it
and find related cases to support it.
Legal Writing
- making research presentable
- presenting what you have researched and making it legally presentable
- your writing will be read by opposing council and especially the judge.
- if research is sound and correct, the opposing council will have a difficulty in rebutting it.
- presentability of the stand is important
- digesting supreme court cases are also important
- books needed:
a. book of rodriguez
b. book of ong
c. legal writing by justice abad - helps in properly presenting the case