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 16th 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. With this book, you get access to a unique web page at nolo.com where you can: Stay current with legal updates to this book Access podcasts and blogs And at nolo.com, you'll find even more help from the experts: Hundreds of valuable articles and FAQs In-depth profiles of lawyers in your area Book jacket.