Becoming a strong legal researcher distinguishes you from other law students (and attorneys), saves your clients money, and protects your reputation and career.
A Note About Using This Guide: The iwi kupuna and contract issues that are dissected here throughout this Guide are for illustration. Depending on your research strategy or the authority you are searching, you are likely to rely on and consume the information within each tab in a piecemeal fashion. Where this might apply, the Guide signals whether you might want to scroll only the left-side of the screen, only the right-side, or both, depending on your research strategy. Mahalo.
See also Stanard v. Nygren, 658 F.3d 792, 798, 801-02 (7th Cir. 2011) (ordering the attorney to show cause within 21 days why he should not be removed or suspended from the bar or otherwise disciplined under Rule 46(b) or (c) of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure for relying on "irrelevant, conclusory, and often incoherent arguments" in a brief that cited 81 irrelevant cases, where "rampant grammatical, syntactical, and typographical errors contributed to an overall sense of unintelligibility.").