Legal research made simple!  If you're searching for information in a real or virtual law library as a paralegal, law student, legal assistant, journalist, or lay person, finding and accessing the laws that you need to read can be a challenge. Turn to Legal Research, which outlines a systematic method to find answers and get results.In plain, readable English, Attorney Stephen Elias explains, with plenty of examples and instructions, how to: . read and understand statues, regulations and cases . evaluate cases for their value as precedent . use all the basic tools of legal research . practice what you've learned with "hands-on, library exercises, as well as hypothetical research problems and solutions This easy-to-use and understand book has been adopted as a text in many law schools and paralegal programs. This edition has been condensed to be more readable and includes an expanded discussion on the use of new legal research tools on the web.          

Provides guidance for using legal reference materials, and includes review questions and practice exercies.

Product Description: Doing your own legal research can seem like an overwhelming task-especially after you set foot into a law library for the first time. Legal Research Made Easy simplifies the research process, and explains everything from statute research to case law to online databases...read more

Provides guidance for using legal reference materials, and includes review questions and practice exercies.

Product Description: Now, at last, there is a comprehensive and readable guide designed to help librarians, scholars, and the general public quickly find the legal information they need. While most legal research books focus on the needs of beginning law students or litigants, Legal Information takes a broader view of the law, including its value in other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Doing your own legal research can seem like an overwhelming task-especially after you set foot into a law library for the first time. Legal Research Made Easy simplifies the research process, and explains everything from statute research to case law to online databases...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Prepared for the Bureau of Land Management Branch of Survey and Mapping Development, Denver Service Center. Recommended Publications for Legal Research "B" Rated, Legal Research/Writing, 1986, Page 120