Legal Research

How to Find & Understand the Law

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NOLO
31 August 2021

Reference works; Education; Jurisprudence & general issues; Constitutional & administrative law; Primary sources of law

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.

By: Editors Of Nolo
Imprint: NOLO
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 19th Nineteen ed.
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 175mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781413328882
ISBN 10: 1413328881
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 31 August 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

- 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.

Reviews for Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law

Getting around the law library can be easy--if you just know where to look-and Legal Research the place to begin. Library Journal The 16th updated edition of Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law tells how to locate key laws and cases either online or in a law library, how to draft legal memoranda, and how to make the most of the Web and a legal library to locate statutes, cases, background information and answers to specific legal issues. Chapters offer keys to organization, shepardizing, prioritizing, using indexes, and analyzing the effect of a case on your particular issue: in short, it outlines the basics of an attorney's research and judgment process and will help users save hundreds of dollars in attorney fees just by doing some of the legal legwork that anyone can do. Very highly recommended! The Midwest Book Review The simplest, most concise and articulate description of the legal research process available. Tom Holm, Director of Lawyering Skills Clinical Program UCLA School of Law