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  2. IRAC - Wikipedia

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    In the IRAC method of legal analysis, the "issue" is simply a legal question that must be answered. An issue arises when the facts of a case present a legal ambiguity that must be resolved in a case, and legal researchers (whether paralegals, law students, lawyers, or judges) typically resolve the issue by consulting legal precedent (existing statutes, past cases, court rules, etc.).

  3. Legal research in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Once a case has been found, legal researchers must make sure that it has not been overturned by a higher court. Lawyers use citators such as Shepard's Citations to make sure that their case is still "good law." This process is often known as Shepardizing after the name of the service. Citators track resources, written at a later point in time ...

  4. Legal research - Wikipedia

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    Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation."

  5. Paralegal - Wikipedia

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    A paralegal in 2004, photo distributed by NARA. A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant, or paralegal specialist is a legal professional who performs tasks that require knowledge of legal concepts but not the full expertise of a lawyer with an admission to practice law. The market for paralegals is broad, including consultancies, companies ...

  6. Practice of law - Wikipedia

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    Texas law generally prohibits a person who is not an attorney from representing a client in a personal injury or property damage matter, and punishes a violation as a misdemeanor. [9] Some states also criminalize the separate behavior of falsely claiming to be lawyer (in Texas, for example, this is a felony if done to obtain economic benefit).

  7. What NFL games are tomorrow? Thanksgiving Day games ... - AOL

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    Thursday's slate of Week 13 NFL games includes teams with a rich history playing on the holiday. Here's tomorrow's schedule and how to watch each game.

  8. Colts' Tyquan Lewis pays off Ohio State-Oregon bet with ...

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    Buckner was at Oregon from 2012-2015 and was a first-team All-American and Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year in 2015. Lewis played for the Buckeyes from 2013-2017 and was two-time first-team All ...

  9. Case method - Wikipedia

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    A decision-forcing case is also a kind of case study. That is, it is an examination of an incident that took place at some time in the past. However, in contrast to a retrospective case study, which provides a complete description of the events in question, a decision-forcing case is based upon an "interrupted narrative."