Massachusetts Legal Research
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781611637618
Subjects: Legal research; Law, massachusetts
Description: "[This book] has been extensively revised to outline a process of effective and efficient legal research that may incorporate print resources, free Internet resources, and commercial platforms. Introductory chapters discuss the importance of legal research in legal problem solving, strategies for locating relevant primary and secondary authority, and ways to evaluate research findings. Following these introductory chapters, [the author] discusses legal secondary sources, and then addresses Massachusetts primary sources and techniques for using them with chapters on judicial opinions, statutes, administrative law, constitutions, and rules of court. An additional chapter discusses the legislative process. The book includes concise descriptions of federal sources and appendixes on full-text searching and citation."--