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Re: Michigan Bankruptcy Laws re: Correspondence Law Students
Posted by -- on 11/01/08

    I think you owe me a report (memo) on what you find in your future research on whether the Rittenhouse case
    [291 F.3d 925 (2002)] is still good law. You may have to go to the law library to do your research or you may
    be able to use the "Find Law" free site to do some of your research (probably not all of your research
    though). I gave you the Shepard's report so 90 percent of your work is done in finding out if Rittenhouse
    [Id.] is still good law. In your memo (if you choose to honor me) please use pin cites in Blue Book format.

    Research is the most important part of the practice of law. It looks cool to see the lawyers on Boston Legal
    get up and wing it in court with a great speech which wins their case. That is TV. In a real practice you do
    research until your eyelids can no longer be held open before you open your mouth. You may have to go to a
    university or supreme court law library to do research even if you do have a Lexis or Westlaw subscription
    because not everything you need is there. Books are cool. Hours go by and you find you learn much more than
    with the click of a mouse.

    Have you ever Shepardized a case by book? It is tedious and time consuming. It is the way lawyers did it
    until a few years ago and many still do. In law school we had to do manual Shepardizing even though we had an
    electronic version. It was really good training. But of course you need a law library to do that, something
    that WCSL doesn't have for you.

    Finally--I want to point out that the research you requested was available online through free search engines
    except for the Shepard's report I decided to include for you. In the real practice of law, the guy you ask for
    help on research paid his/her dues to learn how to research and they will most likely tell you to do your own
    research. You are a student so I helped you.

    Let me know what you find.

     
     

 
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