How do I write a legal memo for school?

For my legal research class we were assigned to write a one page memo concerning ethical obligations of paralegals and legal secretaries. How would I do this? What would be the correct format?|||to expand on lisa's answer -





the other format for citation is the Bluebook citation manual.





usually, you need to roadmap in your 1st paragraph (section) where you state your stance and what you are going to go through - then you go through the pros and cons (do both equally) then wrap up with your conclusion. If this is a true memo, often your conclusion will be ignored and your analysis is much more important, but you need to make sure to go through and make it as organized as you can! :)





good luck|||Format? Look up the ALWD citation manual. A memo in the legal sense is usually written by a lawyer for colleagues, or a client even, about whether to take a case or not and weighing the arguements for both sides. It is usually a discussion of the facts, issues, general statutes, and precedent case law that would be relevent to the current set of facts. A memo is an analysis of the above mentioned material and a conclusion is drawn on how the attorney feels the outcome of the case might come out.





Maybe you could present your paper with an ethical question and apply the current rules and ethical standards to that problem and how you would deal with it.