NOTE: Please visit Legal Research: Step by Step, 5th Edition for the latest edition.
The revised fourth edition of Legal Research: Step by Step is the newest update of this bestselling title. This comprehensive text-workbook helps paralegal and law clerk students identify legal issues, analyze fact situations, and navigate various legal resources in both paper and computerized forms.
The text incorporates recent changes to computerized legal research sources and discusses effective keyword searching—an essential skill for using online sources to find legal information. It also includes many precedents and screenshots to help readers easily navigate secondary sources such as Halsbury’s Laws of Canada. Students will further benefit from a step-by-step guide that demonstrates how to answer a legal problem—from start to finish—using paper and computerized sources.
This revision primarily tackles changes to the interfaces of LawSource and Quicklaw with updated figures and descriptions that accurately reflect how these databases function. This text also now covers Lexis Advance Quicklaw, an entirely new platform with a different interface and method of finding information.
Part I: Introduction to Legal Research
Chapter 1: The Basics of Legal Research
Part II: Sources of Canadian Law
Chapter 2: Statutes
Chapter 3: Regulations
Chapter 4: Cases
Part III: Thinking About Legal Research
Chapter 5: How to Analyze a Fact Situation
Chapter 6: Preparing for and Performing Research
Part IV: Working with Legal Research Sources
Chapter 7: Paper Research Sources
Chapter 8: Computerized Sources
Chapter 9: Computer Searches Using Keywords
Part V: Using a Legal Encyclopedia to Find a General Statement of Law
Chapter 10: Legal Encyclopedias—Paper
Chapter 11: Legal Encyclopedias—Computerized
Part VI: Finding and Updating Statutes, Regulations, and Cases
Chapter 12: Finding and Updating Statutes and Regulations
Chapter 13: Finding and Updating Cases
Part VII: Putting It All Together
Chapter 14: A Sample Research Problem: From Start to Finish
Chapter 15: Legal Writing
Appendixes
Appendix A: Standard Abbreviations for Commonly Used Report Series and Statutes
Appendix B: Law-Related Internet Sites
Glossary
Index