Free Legal Research and Writing Guide

This website provides a free guide on legal research and writing. The legal research and writing guide is called “Win More Cases: The Lawyer’s Toolkit” (version 1.2) by Troy Simpson, with a foreword by former High Court Justice Michael Kirby.

The Toolkit comprises 10 easy-to-follow steps divided into 3 main parts:

• Part A: Probe the Problem
• Part B: Lay Out the Law
• Part C: Use the Tools of Persuasion

The Toolkit also comes with 10 optional worksheets, which you can preview as a PDF ( 220kb) or download as editable Word documents in this .zip file (120kb).

At the right of most pages, you will see a list of “things to try next”. Explore these links for further information about a topic.

• Start reading the Toolkit.