Welcome to your legal research homework. Please complete the exercises that follow by class on September 30th.

This exercise takes you through your brief's research and the use of secondary sources to come up to speed on a subject. There are very specific instructions to follow. Please follow each step, even if you know the outcome. These steps will help you remember how to use the different databases available to you for all of your legal research and the thought process on choosing the right secondary source in your research.

After the secondary sources, the exercise will then take you through finding primary sources for your brief.

Keep track of your research in a research log or trail. You will be directed throughout the exercise what to put in your research trail. You will turn this in via email to Dean Patrick.

You need Westlaw and Lexis access to complete the steps. If you do not have access to one or more of these, please fill out this form.

This exercise will give you practice on the Kite Method of legal research.

• Analyzing the prompt
• Making a plan
• Getting up to speed
• Finding a primary source
• Updating your sources

Use the tabs to move through the exercise. You will start with a memorialization, then create a plan, then move from a familiarity ranking of 1 to a familiarity ranking of 4 with the different resources.

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