Legal Research

Wisconsin Bookwatch, Sept, 2004

Legal Research

Stephen Elias & Susan Levinkind

Nolo Press

950 Parker St, Berkeley, CA 94710

1413300588 $39.99 www.nolo.com

Now in a completely updated twelfth edition, Legal Research: How To Find & Understand The Law is the collaborative effort of professional and experienced attorneys Stephen Elias and Susan Levinking. One of the Nolo Press series of "do-it-yourself" titles designed specifically for the non-specialist general reader, Legal Research is written in plain terms and as accessible to lay readers as it is to law students, paralegals, and anyone else looking for information in a physical or online law library. Basic instructions for learning to read and understand statutes, regulations and cases, ways to ensure one's research is up to date, how to organize one's findings in a memorandum of law, and much more pack this solid, handy, and useful guide. A must for anyone who needs to separate the gold from the dross amid a flood of information.