Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach (2nd Edition) – PDF

Legal Research Demystified 2nd Edition (PDF) offers a straightforward and practical way to learn legal research. This ebook expertly guides law students through eight key steps for tackling issues related to common law and ten steps for navigating statutory issues. By using many examples and pictures, these research methods become clear and understandable. Students praise the book for its helpful screenshots, complete checklists, and informative charts, especially those that explain Boolean searching and compare features of citators. Teachers appreciate that this book gives students the necessary skills to do legal research effectively, instead of just showing them tools and resources separately.

The second edition has been updated in several ways:

• Almost every chapter now includes new questions to test understanding of research tools and ideas.
• The chapters about secondary sources, citators, and keyword searching have been updated and made longer.
• The chapters about making research plans and using secondary sources are now in their own section because these first steps in research are important for all legal topics.

When students buy a new copy of the book, they also get free access to the Core Knowledge for Lawyers online learning platform. This platform has interactive questions and exercises that go along with Legal Research Demystified.

• Nearly 200 automatically graded questions are included from the end of each chapter.
• Students get instant feedback after answering each question, similar to Core Grammar and MBIE.
• Instructors have a helpful dashboard to see how individual students and the whole class are doing.
• There are hundreds of interactive questions and explanations that guide students through the steps of researching common law and statutory issues on Westlaw and Lexis+ platforms.

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NOTE: This purchase is ONLY for the digital eBook version of Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach, 2nd Edition, in PDF format (page numbers will NOT be the same as in the printed book). No access codes are included with this purchase.