Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law

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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 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 youll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites so you wont 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 Shepards Citations the best legal blogs