Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law

Stephen Elias, Editors of Nolo

NOLO, Aug 13, 2018 - Law - 376 pages

Legal Research: Take the law into your own hands

Do you have legal questions at home, at work, or as part of law-related course work? Legal Research provides everything you need, laying out easy-to-follow research methods that will help you find the right answers. Find out how to:

locate and understand statutes, regulations, and cases

make sure your research is 100% up to date

organize your research results into a memorandum of law for use at school, at work, or in court.

Completely updated for the 17th edition, Legal Research shows how to use the Web to find statutes, cases, background information, and answers to specific legal questions. Even more important, you’ll be guided to the most reliable and user-friendly sites, so you won’t drown in an information flood. Lots of examples and easy-to-understand instructions teach you how to use all the basic legal research tools, including:

Internet search engines

reliable free legal websites

legal encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises

annotated legal codes and statutes

published reports of state and federal court cases

case digests and Shepard’s Citations

the best legal blogs

About the author

Until his death in late 2011, Stephen R. Elias was a practicing attorney, active Nolo author, and president of the National Bankruptcy Law Project. He was an important part of Nolo for more than 30 years, and was the author or coauthor of many Nolo books, including Bankruptcy for Small Business Owners. Other titles include Special Needs Trusts: Protect Your Child's Financial Future, How to File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, and Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law. Steve held a law degree from Hastings College of Law and practiced law in California, New York, and Vermont before joining Nolo in 1980. He was featured in such major media as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Good Morning America, 20/20, Money Magazine, and more. The blog he began on bankruptcy and foreclosure law continues at Nolo's Bankruptcy & Foreclosure Blog.

All Nolo legal editors specialize in certain areas of the law, and many are recognized as national experts in their field. They write books, edit books by outside authors, and in their spare time write online articles and blogs, develop legal forms, and create the legal content of Nolo software.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law
• Authors: Stephen Elias, Editors of Nolo
• Edition: 18
• Publisher: NOLO, 2018
• ISBN: 1413325653, 9781413325652
• Length: 376 pages
• Subjects: Law / General; Law / Reference; Law / Research