Legal Research: Cases and Legislation

This legal research exercise book helps students master efficient legal research skills through challenging in-depth problems. The 10th edition contains all new problems and a new format covering both print and electronic resources. Assignments have two variations using print materials, one variation for Westlaw, and one variation for LexisNexis. This format provides instructors more flexibility in what exercises they assign and when they assign them. The assignments cover basic legal research, including reporters, digests, citators, statutes, and advanced materials including federal legislative history and federal administrative law.

The book is written in a conversational style, and the language is accessible and simple, with flowing examples that users can relate with. Practical legal questions are raised and application of individual research methods, strategies, approaches and philosophies are demonstrated. The book starts with a clear definition of legal research method to justification and importance.

For more than a century, Black's Law Dictionary has been the gold standard for the language of law. This edition contains more than 50,000 terms, including more than 7,500 terms new to this edition.

Defines over two thousand legal terms, from abatement and bad faith to yellow dog contract and zoning.