Legal Research by Stephen Elias
Legal Research: Take the law into your own handsDo 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
organize your research results into a memorandum of law for use at school, at work, or in court.
Completely updated for the 17th edition, Legal Research shows how to use the Web to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions. 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 use all the basic legal research tools, including:
Internet 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
the best legal blogs
Stephen R. Elias is an attorney and former associate publisher at Nolo, as well as current President of the National Bankruptcy Law Project. He is the author of many Nolo books, including recently The New Bankruptcy. Other titles include Special Needs Trusts and How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. He is also one of the original authors/designers of Nolo's bestselling WillMaker software. Steve holds a law degree from Hastings College of Law and was a practicing attorney in California, New York and Vermont before joining Nolo. He has been featured in such major media as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Good Morning America, 20/20, Money magazine, and more.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781413310528 |
| ISBN 10 | 1413310524 |
| Title | Legal Research |
| Author | Stephen Elias |
| Series | Legal Research |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Nolo |
| Year published | 2009-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 386 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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