>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 10:21:27 -0500
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>Subject: Any Tips on Ending Research?
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>The question below will be featured in the "Our Question--Your
>Answers" column of the Winter 1997 issue of "Perspectives: Teaching Legal
>Research & Writing" (to be published in January).
>
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>So here's the question:
>
>In law school, research exercises are often designed to lead to an answer.
>In "real world" legal work, however, there may be no answer. New attorneys
>and summer associates often have difficulty knowing when to stop in
>situations where answers aren't clear--even when they have been thorough in
>their research. What tips can you offer the inexperienced researcher for
>determining when to end a research project?
>
>
>Thanks for your help.
>Frank Houdek, Editor, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research & Writing
>
>Frank G. Houdek
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