Investigation

Investigation gets the kind of detailed treatment most casebooks omit, covering both legal investigation (research strategy, secondary sources, treatises, technology-enabled research, choice of law) and fact investigation (sources of information, internet and social-media research, documents and physical evidence, witness interviews, and the ethical limits on contacting represented parties). Long sections on interview technique, witness statements, and the use of experts give students concrete tools they can practice. The chapter pairs naturally with a clinical or pretrial litigation course where students must develop a real or simulated case file from scratch — it is the rare casebook chapter that treats fact-gathering as a teachable craft rather than a tacit skill students are expected to absorb.