Legal research
Subtitle: step by step
By: Margaret Kerr, JoAnn Kurtz & Arlene Blatt
Contributors: Kurtz, JoAnn, 1951- author; Blatt, Arlene, author
Edition: Fourth edition.
Series: Working with the law; Working with the law
Publisher: Emond Montgomery Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781552396483
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Legal research; Textbooks; Droit; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Recherche documentaire
Description: "This text-workbook helps paralegal and law clerk students identify legal issues, analyze fact situations, and navigate various legal resources in both paper and computerized forms. The text has been updated and revised to incorporate recent changes to computerized legal research sources and discusses effective keyword searching -- an essential skill for using online sources to find legal information. The fourth edition now includes many precedents and screenshots to help readers easily navigate secondary sources such as Halsbury's Laws of Canada. Also new to the fourth edition is a step-by-step guide on how to answer a legal problem -- from start to finish -- using paper and computerized sources"--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The basics of legal research; title: Statutes; title: Regulations; title: Cases; title: How to analyze a fact situation; title: Preparing for and performing research; title: Working with legal research sources; title: Computerized sources; title: Computer searches using keywords; title: Legal encyclopedias : paper; title: Legal encyclopedias : computerized; title: Finding and updating statutes and regulations; title: Finding and updating cases; title: A sample research problem : from start to finish; title: Legal writing.