Basic Legal Research

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Edition: Workbook
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-01
Publisher(s): Wolters Kluwer
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Summary

Organized to complement Amy Sloan's Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, this new workbook can also be used with any of the major research texts. it gives your students in-depth practice with all of the key point and electronic sources, using four-tiered exercises that progress from guided practice to independent research skills. Among the workbook features: each exercise incorporates questions at four levels, progressing from basic source features to advanced research skills includes both print and electronic sources in each exercise, allowing either one to be emphasized in assignments assignments can be applied to different fact patterns and jurisdictions, reducing demand on single library sources the final section shows students how to develop effective research plans throughout their academic and legal careers

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
General Instructions xv
Introduction to Legal Research
1(16)
Problem Set Charts
1(4)
Introduction to Print Research
5(6)
Problem Set Charts
11(2)
Introduction to Electronic Research
13(4)
Generating Search Terms
17(10)
Generating Search Terms
17(2)
Charts 1-8
19(8)
Secondary Source Research
27(30)
Problem Set Charts
27(12)
Researching Legal Encyclopedias, A.L.R. Annotations, and Legal Periodicals in Print
39(6)
Researching Secondary Sources Electronically
45(6)
Problem Set Chart
51(2)
Researching Treatises in Print
53(4)
Case Research
57(18)
Problem Set Charts
57(4)
Researching Cases in Print
61(6)
Researching Cases Electronically
67(4)
Problem Set Charts
71(2)
Researching Cases on Your Own
73(2)
Research with Shepard's Citations and Other Citators
75(26)
Problem Set Charts
75(4)
Shepardizing Cases in Print
79(10)
Checking Case Citations Electronically
89(6)
Problem Set Charts
95(2)
Checking Case Citations on Your Own
97(4)
Statutory Research
101(18)
Problem Set Charts
101(4)
Researching Statutes in Print
105(4)
Problem Set Charts
109(2)
Researching Statutes Electronically
111(4)
Problem Set Charts
115(2)
Researching Statutes on Your Own
117(2)
Federal Legislative History Research
119(24)
Problem Set Charts
119(4)
Researching the Legislative History of a Federal Statute in Print
123(6)
Researching the Legislative History of a Federal Statute Electronically
129(6)
Problem Set Charts
135(6)
Researching Federal Legislative History by Subject
141(2)
Federal Administrative Law Research
143(18)
Problem Set Charts
143(6)
Researching Federal Administrative Regulations in Print
149(4)
Researching Federal Administrative Regulations Electronically
153(4)
Problem Set Charts
157(2)
Researching Federal Administrative Regulations on Your Own
159(2)
Electronic Search Techniques
161(8)
Electronic Search Techniques
161(8)
Research Planning
169(4)
Problem Set Charts
169(4)
Developing and Executing a Research Plan
173

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