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What is Legal Reasoning: Legal reasoning is a concept of process of thinking to decision relation to the

law. Legal reasoning reveals why and how the court, lawyer or judge came to their decision or argument
on the case. Good legal reasoning requires logical argument. In other words, legal reasoning is often
identified with the intellectual processes by which judges, advocates and researchers reaches in a
conclusion.

Following are the steps of legal reasoning

Issue: It means whether the law has anything to say about a particular issue. For example a client comes
to advocate share his issue, it means client want to know what the law says in this issue.

Facts: Advocate collects fact regarding client's story

Analysis/Apply of Law: After examination of issue and facts then advocate using his legal reasoning that
in this situation which law would be applicable. Whether his issue deals with civil or criminal etc.

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