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This 5 page paper discusses the classic legal textbook, “Gilbert’s Law Summaries, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Gilberts Law Summaries as being one of several "background resources" that provide "concise law summaries" of various areas of law; these books are intended as "study guides for law students"
(Elias, Levinkind and Stim, 2005, p. 5/4). Other such books include Legalines and the Black Letter Series and such materials can be found in law libraries and legal bookstores (Elias,
Levinkind and Stim, 2005, p. 5/4). Gilbert and other such references all do the same thing: they provide an "up-to-date framework or overview of a legal subject area, making
it easier to understand the law you are researching" (Elias, Levinkind and Stim, 2005, p. 5/4). These books in general are very "dense," so a student will need to
determine which is best for the legal research he or she is doing; in addition, they appear to be most helpful as tools for review of an area of law
with which the student is already familiar (Elias, Levinkind and Stim, 2005, p. 5/4). Another source describes Gilberts Law Summaries and Emanuel Law Outlines as examples of what it calls
the "classic style of law school outlines-thicker, detailed, comprehensive texts that take a specific legal topic and cover it from top to bottom in a strict outline format" (Law school
outlines). This format has both drawbacks and benefits; the benefits include the fact that outlines keep information organized and provide a model for students to use when they write their
class outlines, which are "usually the grand culmination of a semesters worth of class notes" (Law school outlines). The drawbacks to this format are that outlines provide their information in
words and phrases that often seem unconnected, making them difficult to read through smoothly (Law school outlines). They are thus not the easiest way to see the "big picture" that
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