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What You Always Wanted to Know
About Legal Research *
*But Were Afraid to Ask
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Overarching Themes
• Update• Take
advantage of the work of others
• Use help services
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Acronyms & Words
• Bieber’s• Bluebook• Black’s &
general dictionaries
• Words & Phrases
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Leave It to Bieber’s
• Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations
• Dictionary of Legal Citations
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The Bluebook• Blue pages• Tables &
abbreviations• Jurisdiction-
specific• Courts,
documents, states, periodicals, services
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Words and Phrases
• Judicially defined• Nationwide• Annual pocket
parts• Westlaw: search
cases or statutes, field WP (term)
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Unfamiliar Topic
• Find a research guide
• Consult a treatise
• Check ALR or Causes of Action
• Read a law review article
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Treat-ises
ScholarlyComprehensiveAuthoritative• Corbin on
Contracts• Nimmer on
Copyright
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Washington
• Wash. Practice• Wash. Lawyers
Practice Manual• WSBA deskbooks
(Loislaw)• Wash. Legal
Researcher’s Deskbook 3d
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Fact Pattern
•American Law Reports
•Causes of Action (tort-based)
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Law Reviews
• Index vs fulltext• Hein Online for
“historic” articles
• Shepard’s & Keycite
• Annotated codes
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Forms
• Formbook collections
• LexisNexis & Westlaw databases
• Office boilerplate
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Facts
• Public libraries–Seattle Public
– Internet Public Library
• Almanacs
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Constitutions
• Initial volumes of statutory codes
• Annotated codes cite to law review articles & cases
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Statutes
• Easier to read in print
• Easier to update online
• Popular names
• Tables
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Effective Dates
Washington• 90 days after
adjournment• Laws of Wash.• RCWA tables &
pocket parts
United States• Presidential
signature OR as stated in the act
• Statutes at Large
• USC, USCA & USCS
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Legislative History
Shortcuts• USCCAN• LexisNexis
Congressional• LexisNexis &
Westlaw• Bibliographies
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50 State Surveys
• M-H Law Digest• National Survey of
State Laws• Subject
Compilations of State Laws
• Uniform Laws Annotated
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Caselaw
•One good case
•Secondary sources
•Update online
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Missile - any
• Admin. decisions• Court rules• Ethics opinions• Judicial
biographies• Jury instructions• Jury verdicts
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Bag ‘O Tricks
• How to use a new source
• Smaller, targeted databases
• System as a citator
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Paper Trail
•CALR searches
• Internet finds
•Citator checks
•Dead ends
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Stop When . . .
• You have found the answer
• The cost exceeds the benefit
• Multiple sources cite the same authorities
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Kindness of Strangers