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Legal Research - Guide to Basic Sources: General Works & Guides

This guide provides information on resources used for legal research.

General Online resources

AllLaw Legal Information 
http://www.alllaw.com/

American Law Sources On-line 
http://www.lawsource.com/also/

FindLaw 
http://www.findlaw.com/

LII: Legal Information Institute 
http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Use to locate federal and state court decisions, statutes or regulations on many legal subjects.

M.G. Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington 
http://lib.law.washington.edu/

Has many links to research guides are located to the left on the main web page

Nolo Law for All 
http://nolo.com/

     The "Legal Articles" section can be especially helpful

Databases

Casemaker

This online legal research service to case law, statutes, public records and other legal resources, provided by Bannock County, is available at the Oboler Library for use by the public by using the two designated computers in the Law Library on the 3rd floor. Community patrons and local lawyers must ask for a visitor pass for the Law computers at the Circulation Desk on the 1st floor. Make sure to let the staff know that you need a pass for the Law computers.

Books in the Library

Effective Legal Research, by Miles O. Price. 3rd ed. Boston: Little Brown, 1969. 
(KF240.P7 1969b)

Provides an overview to types and sources for legal research. Has list of legal abbreviations and index.

     Fundamentals of Legal Research, by J. Myron Jacobstein. Mineola, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1987. 
    (Law KF240 .J3 1987)

Covers methods for locating legal decisions.

Gale encyclopedia of American Law ebook

Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law, by Stephen Elias. 12th ed. Berkeley: Nolo Press, 2004. 
(Law KF240 .E35 2004)

Legal Research In a Nutshell, by Morris L. Cohen. 8th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thompson/West, [2003] 
(Ref Desk KF240 .C54 2003)

Legal Research Made Easy, by Susan Herskowitz Singer. 3rd ed. Naperville, IL: Spinx Publishers, 2002. 
(Ref Desk KF240 .H47 2002)

An easy to understand guide.

      West's Analysis of American Law. Thompson/West. 
     (Law KF240 .W454, 2010) 

Key number analysis to 400 major topics in American law. Over 100,000 individual Key Numbers are used.
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