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Consider what you've learned about each of the following legal analysis skills:

Element Identification

Identifying/Phrasing Legal Issues

Identifying/Applying Definitions

Factor Analysis

Case Law Application

IRAC/IFRAC

1 please specifically discuss how these skills assist the paralegal in determining what requires investigation, what requires legal research, and what sources of law/legal authority would be helpful.

I would like to know if I need to break down what each of these mean in my own words Element Identification

Identifying/Phrasing Legal Issues

Identifying/Applying Definitions

Factor Analysis

Ex. Element Identification Gives you an understanding of the law or rule. Something that the paralegal will figure out on paper or their head. Nothing that needs to be reviewed.

Identifying/Phrasing Legal Issues: Once you understand the elements of a rule the next step would be to immediately show what the issue(s) are. There are two different main categories Factual issues and legal issues