Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, 19th Edition
- Length: 368 pages
- Edition: 19
- Language: English
- Publisher: Nolo
- Publication Date: 2021-08-31
- ISBN-10: 1413328881
- ISBN-13: 9781413328882
- Sales Rank: #834981 (See Top 100 Books)
Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands
Do you have legal questions at home, at work, or as part of law-related course work? Legal Research provides everything you need, laying out easy-to-follow research methods that will help you find the right answers. Find out how to:
- locate and understand statutes, regulations, and cases
- make sure your research is 100% up to date, and
- organize your research results into a memorandum of law for use at school, at work, or in court.
Completely updated for the 19th edition, Legal Research shows you how to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions online. Even more important, you’ll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites, so you won’t drown in an information flood.
Lots of examples and easy-to-understand instructions teach you how to master all the basic legal research tools, including:
- online search engines
- reliable free legal websites
- legal encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises
- annotated legal codes and statutes
- published reports of state and federal court cases
- case digests and Shepard’s Citations, and
- the best legal blogs.
Your Legal Research Companion 1Understanding the Basics of the Law What Is the Law? Sources of Law State Versus Federal Law The Court System 2Finding Legal Resources Locating Legal Information Primary Sources and Secondary Sources Looking for Legal Resources Online Legal Research Websites 3Identifying Your Legal Issue How to Approach Your Research Step 1: Is the Issue Civil or Criminal? Step 2: Figuring Out the Area of Law You’re Researching Step 3: What Resources Will Help You Find What You Need? Step 4: Figure Out Your Legal Research Question 4Finding and Using Secondary Sources Online Resources Self-Help Legal Books Legal Encyclopedias Form Books Practice Manuals Continuing Legal Education Publications Law Reviews and Other Legal Periodicals Specialized Loose-Leaf Materials Treatises and Monographs Restatements of the Law 5Finding and Using Constitutions, Statutes, Regulations, and Ordinances Finding and Using Constitutions Finding Federal Statutes Finding State Statutes Understanding and Using Federal and State Statutes Finding and Using Regulations Finding and Using Procedural Statutes and Rules Finding and Using Local Laws or Ordinances 6Finding Cases Using Citations to Find Cases Finding Cases Online Finding Cases in the Law Library The Next Step 7Using Case Law What Is a Case? How Cases Are Published How Cases Affect Later Disputes 8Validating Your Research Making Sure It’s “Good Law” How to Shepardize a Case Shepardizing Statutes Using Shepard’s for Research 9Organizing and Putting Your Legal Research to Use Organizing Your Research How to Write a Legal Memorandum Going to Court Finding and Working With a Lawyer Glossary Appendix Topic-Specific Research Sites Index
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