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Review Of Handbook Of Appellate Advocacy, By M. Josephson., Douglas A. Kahn
Review Of Handbook Of Appellate Advocacy, By M. Josephson., Douglas A. Kahn
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The practice of appellate advocacy may well be the most abused skill in the legal profession. The successful conduct of an appeal can preserve a client's favorable verdict or reverse his losses; and an appellate determination is often dispositive of the case. Yet, while most members of the bar recognize that trial litigation requires specialized training, too many attorneys regard appellate advocacy as commonplace and devote little or no effort to the study of the techniques of brief writing and oral argument. I have personally observed a sizeable number of cases which were lost on appeal, not because counsel failed …
A Language-Normalization Approach To Information Retrieval In Law, Layman E. Allen
A Language-Normalization Approach To Information Retrieval In Law, Layman E. Allen
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An information retrieval system (as distinguished from a document retrieval system) is described for handling statute-oriented legal literature. The Normalized Sentence-Index Matrix (N-SIM) system suggested differs from more traditional retrieval systems for legal literature in three respects: (1) the categories used for classification are normalized versions of sentences from statutes, regulations, treaties, constitutions, case opinions, legal treatises, law review articles, and other documents in legal literature, (2) the classification system is hierarchial and open-ended to evolve with the literature through time, and (3) the organization of the file facilitates some analysis of the literature by computer. A sentence is expressed …
Team Work Planning Of A Comparative Law Research Project, Wencelas J. Wagner
Team Work Planning Of A Comparative Law Research Project, Wencelas J. Wagner
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Annual Survey: 1966, F. Reed Dickerson, Paul R. Beath, Louis F. Del Duca
Annual Survey: 1966, F. Reed Dickerson, Paul R. Beath, Louis F. Del Duca
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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