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 18th 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.

Categories: Jurisprudence & Law

Year: 2018

Edition: 18

Publisher: NOLO

Language: English

Pages: 368 / 369

ISBN 10: 1413325645

ISBN 13: 9781413325645

Series: Legal Research

File: PDF, 6.68 MB