Strategic legal research
Subtitle: finding the information you need efficiently and cost-effectively
By: Tobin A. Sparling, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Aspen select series; Aspen select series
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781454869894
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Legal research
Description: Strategic Legal Research describes a step-by-step process for achieving effective research results with an eye toward the bottom line. Geared for those entering practice, it guides the reader through each stage of a successful research strategy: receiving the research assignment, analyzing the issue and generating a list of key words, choosing the best research sources for the situation at hand, devising an appropriate search of the resources selected, and analyzing the results. It describes the advantages and disadvantages of the research resources used in practice today. Throughout, Strategic Legal Research emphasizes that, in today's legal environment, successful research is measured not only by its results, but also by the time spent and costs sustained to achieve them. This second edition has been updated to reflect enhancements by electronic providers. -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The goal of legal research; title: Legal research in the practice of law; title: Overview of the research process; title: The steps of strategic legal research; title: Statutory interpretation research; title: Researching court rules; title: Researching administrative law; title: Researching nonlegal authority; title: Appendix; title: The federal legal system; title: The Texas legal system.