Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law - Softcover

Elias, Stephen; Nolo, Editors Of

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413325645 ISBN 13: 9781413325645

Publisher: NOLO, 2018

Synopsis

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 18th 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.

About this title

Book Description:

Legal Research provides everything you need to answer your legal questions at home, work, or as part of your law-related coursework. The easy-to-follow instructions will help you find and understand statutes, regulations, cases, and more.

About the Author:

Until his death in late 2011, Stephen R. Elias was a practicing attorney, active Nolo author, and president of the National Bankruptcy Law Project. He was the author or coauthor of many Nolo books, including How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy. Steve held a law degree from Hastings College of Law and practiced law in California, New York, and Vermont before joining Nolo in 1980. He was featured in such major media as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Good Morning America, 20/20, Money Magazine, and more.

- 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: NOLO
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1413325645
• ISBN 13: 9781413325645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368