Legal Research
How to Find & Understand the Law
Author: Cara O'Neill and Jessica Gillespie Gillespie
Legal Research empowers readers by explaining how to find accurate legal information, including statutes, regulations, and case law in easy-to-understand language.
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Legal Research empowers readers by explaining how to find accurate legal information, including statutes, regulations, and case law in easy-to-understand language.
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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.
Critic Reviews
"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
Legal Research helps readers take the law into their own hands. When it comes to finding what they need, if it's out there, Nolo editors will help them find it. sirreadalot.org
About the Author
Cara O'Neill is a legal editor and writer at Nolo specializing in bankruptcyand small claims litigation. Cara authors several Nolo book titles,including How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, TheNew Bankruptcy, and Everybody's Guide to Small Claims Court. Shealso coauthors Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law, TheForeclosure Survival Guide, Solve Your Money Troubles,and Credit Repair, and edits several more. Before joining Nolo,Cara practiced law for over 20 years in civil and criminal litigation, bankruptcy,and administrative law. During that time, she served as an administrative lawjudge, took dozens of criminal and civil cases to jury verdict, appeared beforethe California Court of Appeals, and taught undergraduate and graduate lawcourses. She earned her law degree in 1994 from the University of the Pacific,McGeorge School of Law, where she served as a law journal editor and graduatedas a member of the Order of the Barristers--an honor society recognizingexcellence in courtroom advocacy.Jessica Gillespie works at Nolo in several capacities. As Nolo's Research Director, Jessica manages the editorial staff's research needs. She also cocreates many of Nolo's online legal forms, including those used in online LLC and corporation formation services, coauthors Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law, and writes and edits estate planning and personal injury articles. Before joining Nolo, Jessica managed prestigious document collections at New York University's Law Library and provided library research and support at a large Virginia law firm. Jessica's academic achievements include a B.A. from the University of Virginia, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Long Island University, and an M.A. in U.S. History from North Carolina State University. She also did doctoral work on Progressive Era reform movements in the Appalachian South at the University of Tennessee.
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