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Reflection Paper On "Legal Research, Legal Writing, and Legal Analysis: Putting Law School Into Practice" by Suzanne Rowe

The document discusses a reflection paper on the book "LEGAL RESEARCH, LEGAL WRITING, AND LEGAL ANALYSIS: PUTTING LAW SCHOOL INTO PRACTICE" by Suzanne Rowe. The reflection paper clarifies that legal study involves analysis and research, not just memorization. It also explains how to properly conduct legal research from different sources. The author of the reflection realized that legal study requires perseverance, analysis, and experience, not just memorization. Legal research has become easier with online resources but students must carefully evaluate sources. Legal research is an important foundational subject for law students to learn skills needed in practice like finding solutions through analysis and research.
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Reflection Paper On "Legal Research, Legal Writing, and Legal Analysis: Putting Law School Into Practice" by Suzanne Rowe

The document discusses a reflection paper on the book "LEGAL RESEARCH, LEGAL WRITING, AND LEGAL ANALYSIS: PUTTING LAW SCHOOL INTO PRACTICE" by Suzanne Rowe. The reflection paper clarifies that legal study involves analysis and research, not just memorization. It also explains how to properly conduct legal research from different sources. The author of the reflection realized that legal study requires perseverance, analysis, and experience, not just memorization. Legal research has become easier with online resources but students must carefully evaluate sources. Legal research is an important foundational subject for law students to learn skills needed in practice like finding solutions through analysis and research.
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Pastrana II, Robert Jay Regz M.

Legal Research

Reflection Paper on “LEGAL RESEARCH, LEGAL WRITING, AND LEGAL


ANALYSIS: PUTTING LAW SCHOOL INTO PRACTICE” by Suzanne Rowe

The text entitled “LEGAL RESEARCH, LEGAL WRITING, AND LEGAL


ANALYSIS: PUTTING LAW SCHOOL INTO PRACTICE” was written by Suzanne Rowe
on the year 2009. The text clarifies common misconceptions of aspiring law students
regarding legal study such as “law school is all about memorization”, etc. It explains that
analysis and research, not just mere memorization should be done during the course of
law study. It also gives advice and procedures on how to properly search information
from different sources. It provides the basics of legal research, writing, and analysis as
well as tips on how to pass the subject. It also tackles the importance of legal research
specially after passing the bar examination and performing a lawyer’s job.

Before, when I think of law study, what comes to my mind is that law school is all
about memorizing, word by word, every single text of a case, a law, or any other
readings that one may encounter in the course of study. I am always amazed of how
lawyers give answers to every legal problem and question they face, how they give
legal advice to their clients regarding their concerns, how they give interpretation to
laws, and how they apply jurisprudence in cases and other legal documents. After
reading the text, I realized that study of law is not just about memorizing. No person can
memorize and retain exactly all the contents of books and laws that they studied. It
involves perseverance, intensive analysis, study, research and experience to become
well-versed in the field of law.

I can say that Legal Research nowadays is easier in terms of resources,


compared to the time before the conception of internet. Resources are all over the web,
readily available for the use of student-researchers. All that the students have to do is to
be patient in finding the resources that they need, be careful in determining the veracity
of information they derived and analyze the relationship of such information with the
issue that they are researching for.

Legal Research, in my opinion, is given to first year law students because it is a


foundation subject that teaches students how to research and analyze legal problems,
skills which are necessary in other law subjects. It also gives students a glimpse of a
lawyer’s actual work which includes finding solutions to their clients’ problems through
analysis and research.

The author said, “researching, analyzing, and writing about the law occurs as a
complex, interwoven process” and “process, not magic, is the practice of law”. I agree.
Studying law entails hard work and perseverance. Learning and developing skills in
Legal Research is a continuous process, even when one is already admitted to the bar.
It will be continuously developed as time passes by, through practice and experience. It
is very important specially in the performance of job as a lawyer

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