Katherine Raup O'Connell Legal Writing Professor Office:  LC2006F Campus Phone: (419) 530-2964 Email: koconne2@utnet.utoledo.edu Secretary: Jennifer Fitzgerald; (419) 530-5114

Fall 2008

Legal Research

Syllabus

Course Guidelines

Week of August 25th – Intro to U.S. Legal System and Legal Research:

Writing and Analysis book
Read Chapter 1, pp. 3-38 - Intro to the Legal System and Legal Writing. Be prepared to discuss Exercise 1-A, 1-B, 1-C and 1-E.

Legal Research Workbook   Read  pp. 1-26.
Use Assigning Memo 1A * to complete Assignment Sheet 1  “Using Secondary Sources” (workbook pages 39-54).  Turn in completed assignment in class on Tuesday, Sept 2.

Prior to class:  Think of a legal topic you would like to begin to research.

Bluebook Citation Manual and Interactive Citation Workbook (ICW)  Discuss in class.

*You may read through the Assigning Memo and Assignment Sheet before class on Tuesday, but you may want to wait until after Tuesday’s class to begin the research for the assignment.

 

Katherine Raup O’Connell, is a graduate of Wittenberg University, B.A. English, cum laude, 1979, and The Ohio State University College of Law, J.D., 1984.

Ms. O’Connell has practiced law for 20 years. From 1984 to 1987, she was an associate in the Columbus office of Peck, Shaffer & Williams, a Cincinnati law firm specializing in tax-exempt finance.  From 1988 to 1991, she was an associate at the Toledo law firm Cooper & Walinski.  In 1991 she became a founding partner of the Toledo firm Stockwell & Cooperman, where she is presently Of Counsel.  Her practice areas include real estate, general business and corporate law.

She has been an active member of the Toledo Bar Association, Real Estate Committee, serving as Secretary from 1993-1994, and is presently a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, Real Estate and Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law Sections.  Formerly, she was a member of the Ohio Division of Securities, Registration and Exemption Advisory Committee and of the American Bar Association.

Since 1997, Ms. O’Connell has been a member of the Ottawa Hills Planning and Zoning Commission.  She was a Trustee of the Girl Scout Council of Maumee Valley from 1992 to 2002, serving as Treasurer from 1995-1996.

Publication:

“Can Ohio Avoid the Wake of MITE:  An Analysis of the Constitutionality of the Ohio Control Share Acquisition Act,” 46 Ohio State Law Journal 203 (1985).