Take the law into your own hands
Do you have legal questions at home or work or as part of law-related coursework? Legal Research is the go-to book when you need the right answers fast. You’ll learn simple research methods and standard legal writing styles that will help you quickly and efficiently:
- locate statutes, regulations, and case law
- ensure your research is current, and
- organize results into a legal memorandum for school, work, or court.
Completely modernized for the 20th edition, Legal Research covers both traditional research approaches and techniques for answering legal questions online. The examples and easy-to-understand instructions will help you master essential legal research tools in a snap, including:
- legal encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises
- annotated and unannotated codes and statutes
- published state and federal court cases
- case digests and Shepard’s Citations, and
- online search engines, free legal websites, and blogs.
Importantly, you’ll also learn to narrow your results so you won’t drown in an information flood when researching reliable, user-friendly online websites or in the local law library stacks.
Inhoudsopgave
Your Legal Research Companion 1. Understanding the Basics of the Law 2. Finding Legal Resources 3. Identifying Your Legal Issue 4. Finding and Using Secondary Sources 5. Finding and Using Constitutions, Statutes, Regulations, and Ordinances 6. Finding Cases 7. Using Case Law 8. Validating Your Research 9. Organizing and Putting Your Legal Research to Use 10. Research Hypothetical and Memorandum Glossary Appendix Index
Over de auteur
Nolo’s editorial department includes more than a dozen legal editors and full-time legal researchers, who collectively have more than 150 plus years’ experience turning legal jargon into plain English. Most of our editors gave up careers as practicing lawyers in favor of furthering Nolo’s mission: Getting legal information into the hands of the people who really need it. All Nolo legal editors specialize in certain areas of the law, and many are recognized as national experts in their field. They write books, edit books by outside authors, and write online articles and blogs, develop legal forms, and create the legal content of Nolo software.
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