Citation Champion
The source to consult when you want to know the proper way to cite when practicing in an Ohio court.
What is the Supreme Court of Ohio Writing Manual?
The best way to search for a case when you only know the party names?
What is using the name segment or segment searching?
The name of the Ohio specific legal encyclopedia.
What is Ohio Jurisprudence 3d?
The type of document created when you summarize what happened in a particular case decision. These documents can be extremely useful for those of you going on to law school.
What is a case brief?
A movement within the legal world to make legal writing more comprehensible to the average reader.
What is the Plain English movement?
The way you cite to section 3109.051 of the Ohio Revised Code using the Supreme Court of Ohio Writing Manual formula.
What is R.C. 3109.051?
The best place to go when you want to get information about what segments you can search in particular sources? Remember - there is a place to go where you can find assistance on Lexis searching in LexisAdvance itself.
What is Help section of Lexis Advance (top right hand corner)?
The two publications of Ohio statutes. Neither of these are official.
What are Baldwin's and Page's?
A document that is submitted to a court to persuade the court to rule in favor of your client's position.
What is a legal or court brief? (Trial and appellate are sub-types)
The result when you fail to include a complete subject and a complete verb in your sentence?
What is a sentence fragment or an incomplete sentence?
Using the Supreme Court of Ohio's Writing Manual, this is the order of sources you should use to when citing an Ohio Court of Appeals case decided after May 1, 2002, that has been published in both the Ohio Appellate Reporter and the Northeastern Reporter and has a WebCite.
What is the Ohio Appellate Reporter, the Webcite number, then the Northeastern Reporter?
The very first place you should turn to validate case law on LexisAdvance.
What is Shepard's?
The name of the current leader who has issued executive orders in the state of Ohio regarding COVID-19, such as the 'stay-at-home' order.
Who is Governor Mike Dewine?
The person who must sign an opinion letter providing legal advice to a client.
Who is the attorney?
The process by which you identify and address counter-arguments that may be made by opposing counsel.
What is analysis and counter-analysis?
The official reporter for Ohio trial courts.
What is Ohio Miscellaneous?
The character you want to use at the end of root word to broaden the search terms appears in your results. It is also known as the root expander.
What is the exclamation point (!)?
The name of the most recent case decided by the Ohio Supreme Court and available on Lexis. HINT: This will require a LexisAdvance search.
What is - it honestly depended when you searched. Search for a term such as 'the', narrow your search results down to Ohio, source as Ohio State Reports (Supreme Court of Ohio cases from 1821) and then sort from newest to oldest?
A type of document sent to a debtor in order to collect a debt. You must be very careful not to run afoul of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
What is a demand letter?
The two most important places in a legal memo or trial brief to put your best arguments?
What is at the beginning and the end of your Law & Argument?
The source of law where Federal District Court cases are published in the law library.
What is the Federal Supplement?
The best method to use when searching for specific words and language in your search results. Use this method instead of a Natural Language search.
What is Boolean searching or Terms and Connectors searching?
The publisher of Ohio's Domestic Relations Manual published on Lexis. HINT: Remember, there is information on the sources contained on LexisAdvance.
What is Anderson's?
An internal document, not subject to discovery, that objectively identifies the legal issues and tries to predict the best course of action for a client to take.
What is a legal memo?
The writing issue that results when you hide the actor of your sentence, reducing readability and clarity. This often happens when you stray from the Subject/Verb/Object structure in your writing.
What is passive voice?