Find a news story or current event that involves a legal proceeding or dispute and research the underlying legal issues, including a summary of the proceeding or controversy, identifying the relevant laws using primary sources, critical legal issues involved in the dispute, and what the resolution of the dispute means both to the parties and to businesses at large. The audience for this assignment would be a supervisor at your workplace who wants to understand the issues around a particular law to make a business or management-level decision about an issue related to your topic and is considering retaining legal counsel for a more detailed discussion. This assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to identify and summarize significant legal issues related to current events, research legal issues using a combination of primary and secondary sources, and explain those legal concepts in terms accessible to persons familiar with business issues and the legal system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Substantive Requirements: Your paper should identify the legal issues related to a legal event and provide sufficient context and analysis to make the legal issues understandable and accessible to a non-legal professional. The paper must include a bibliography that cites a variety of both primary (such as cases, statutes, or regulations) and secondary (scholarly articles, periodicals, websites, and blog posts) sources. You may use the citation style of your choice (e.g., APA, Chicago Style Manual, MLA) The paper should be between 2,500 and 3,500 words in length (excluding the bibliography)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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