Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies

by Amy E. Sloan

This best-selling coursebook on legal research is known for its clear, step-by-step instruction in the basics. Using a building-block approach, Basic Legal Research: Tools and Strategies, Eighth Edition breaks material into discrete, readily comprehensible parts. Ideal as a course book or reference, this text emphasizes online research, with targeted coverage of print materials. Its comprehensive coverage and self-contained chapters offer flexibility to fit a variety of course structures. Useful pedagogy throughout the text includes end-of-chapter checklists, clear examples, and summary charts. Helpful sample pages and examples of research sources guide students through the presentation, and an accompanying workbook provides exercises to test comprehension and to apply legal research tools and strategies. New to the Eighth Edition: Professors and student will benefit from:

Genres: Law, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School, Reference, Legal

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2000

Reviews

[Margaret Schachte · Rating 2 out of 5]

Helpful but not enjoyable. I was reading this book for a class and am honestly just impressed that I finished it.

[Julia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Out of all of the books I have had to read for school, this has been the most boring and useless. I stopped reading half way through the class because there was zero helpful information in this. This book simply goes over basics for legal research which is not entirely different then normal research and therefore if you have done any research at all in your past, this is not necessary. The only helpful information was on Shepardizing/Keyciting cases which in the end, the professor explained better and still didn't need this book....

[Toviel · Rating 3 out of 5]

ACTUAL RATING: 3.5

[sologdin · Rating 1 out of 5]

books on legal research really won't be much assistance. one needs to go to law library and learn the stacks. and then promptly forget the law library and learn internet legal research because that's what everybody does now.

[Kersten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked that it included screenshots (for those who either don't have access to the material or aren't doing the steps while they're reading), flowcharts and the checklists at the end of the chapters that pretty much summarized everything. As with most textbooks though, it was still a little dry.

[Anna]

a timeless classic...

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was so exciting I could barely contain myself.

[Edward · Rating 2 out of 5]

Helpful.