Electronic Legal Research: An Integrated Approach Review

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(More customer reviews)I found this book to be helpful in conducting Internet searches in general, although it is written primarily for those in the legal profession. It is well-written, concise, and it appears the author went out of her way to put as much valuable information as possible into a small package.

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Electronic Legal Research: An Integrated Approach, second edition,is dedicated to fully explainingthe rationale of legal research, guiding readers through the individual steps necessary to develop their own research strategies.Through exploration into the topic of legal database searching with substance and depth, Electronic Legal Research facilitates long-term learning. Since new products are introduced every day and the market leaders constantly change, this text takes the approach of one set of skills, Boolean searching. This approach will enable the beginning researcher to do research in nearly any electronic database, specifically training students to research paid legal databases and the Internet. Electronic Legal Research: An Integrated Approach, second edition,is based on the concept of critical thinking allowing for intelligent decisions about how to find information through effective resource selection and query construction. Rather than a traditional how-to book, Electronic Legal Research: An Integrated Approach truly facilitates learning by presenting up to date information and challenging exercises that focus on critical thinking skills and practical skill implementation. This practical approach is a useful research guide for both students and working professionals, in both paralegal and attorney roles.

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Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law Review

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(More customer reviews)I am a legal assistant and I use this book constantly! It gives you great strategies to work more efficiently while getting better results. I had no idea how many legal resources there are online! This book tells you which sites are the most reliable and easy to use. It also demystifies annotated legal codes, case digests, state reports and many other research tools. But most importantly it is extremeley well organized and easy to use. I wish that I had discovered this book when I was a student!

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International Legal Research in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (West Publishing)) Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently reviewed this book for possible use and reference to my international legal research interested students and found it had little to offer that they could not get online, in the first instance. With the sophistication of internet searching tools, as well as specialty link-lists & databases of materials, there is little 'meat' left on this book's bones - at least for me. I do have a related certificate degree in international legal practice. Perhaps useful for the complete novice, but of limited use to those who have done a bit of researching online themselves. And with a growing body of available resources through national and international governments and organizations, the book would give us more if it were be simply a list of example projects and lists of the best links for those. Too many words - too little help. Of course, no book can be an excuse for not reviewing the latest state of the law online in this day and age, especially before tackling a new research theme or case as a lawyer or law student. Just as no general book can 'shephardize' - that is, trace the precedential order of cases consistent and distinguished. Still, too little time spent discussing the theory of cases and how to decide where to start and go - the process of legal research. As for knowing the current state of the law by consulting this work, I would not expect it to do that, either. And it didn't.

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This Nutshell provides a basic introduction to international legal research for the non-specialist. It offers guidance through the unfamiliar pathways of research using international legal materials and demystifies the world of treaties. Since it's aimed at the non-specialist, it provides straight-forward background information on the United Nations and the European Union and includes guidance using the documents and legal materials of these institutions. There are extensive links to the rich world of Web resources, but it also describes paper research tools that remain important in this field. Finally, it sets out a road map for approaching an international legal research problem.

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