LILRC Webinar: Legal Research for Beginners

Learn about the process of legal research in this beginner webinar on law librarianship. This informative session will discuss where to find the law including primary sources such as constitutions, statutes, court opinions and case law, regulations, and administrative decisions as well as important secondary and scholarly sources which may be cited as persuasive authority such as treatises, law reviews, specialized periodicals, annotations, and restatements, as well as legal encyclopedias. Both free and commercial sources will be demonstrated and discussed.

Webinar participants will learn:

• How to track down a legal citation

• How to distinguish between statute and case law citations

• Where to find both Federal and State statutes

• Where to find both Federal and State court opinions

• Where to find specialized legal materials such as regulations, dockets, forms, and reporters

• How to check the validity of a case before citing it

Ellyssa Kroski is the Director of Innovation & Engagement at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 77 books including Law Librarianship in the Age of AI for which she won the AALL’s 2020 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University, and an international conference speaker. She received the 2017 Library Hi Tech Award from the ALA/LITA for her long-term contributions in the area of Library and Information Science technology and its application. She can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa

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