Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law

Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands

Legal Research provides everything you need to answer your legal questions at home, work, or as part of your law-related coursework. The easy-to-follow instructions will help you find and understand statutes, regulations, cases, and more.

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 Legal Research shows how to use the web to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions. Even more important, you’ll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites, so you won’t 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 Shepard’s Citations
• the best legal blogs