The Process of Legal Research: Authorities and Options (Aspen Coursebook)

The Eighth Edition finds a sharper focus on the basics, asking and answering the questions, "What are the various forms of legal authority?" and "How does each contribute to resolving a client's legal problem?" A greater emphasis on how to choose the optimal research options for various authorities includes a mix of print and online as well as public and commercial resources. Each chapter includes a table of optimal research options. The Eighth Edition skillfully interweaves smaller employment law problems faced by a firm throughout the text, rather than the single mega-problem of previous editions, and new flow-chart style charts illuminate much of the denser text. Citations are covered in citation boxes, reflecting both the Bluebook and ALWD. In a leaner writing style designed appeal to modern students, the Eighth Edition confronts some of the most current hot topics, such as how people think about research today and what firms find wanting in new lawyers research abilities.

Hallmark features:

• Provides a complete introduction to the process of legal research
• the sources and vocabulary of legal research
• how each source works
• how to combine sources into a research process
• how to resolve legal problems through effective research techniques
• Extensive illustrations and examples of actual research problems
• Teaches the best research practices
• how to choose the appropriate source and media for various types of problems
• Integrates electronic research
• discusses when and how to choose between paper and electronic research
• shows how the choice among media results in different access means, scope, and currency of materials
• Includes extensive, well-researched problems sets