Internet Legal Research on a Budget - Judy K. Davis, Carole A. Levitt

Internet Legal Research on a Budget

Free and Low-Cost Resources for Lawyers, Second Edition
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2020
American Bar Association (Verlag)
978-1-64105-606-9 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
"No matter what you're looking for, this book will help you find it. And best of all, most of the resources discussed in this 365-page guide are low-cost or free!"
-- Nicole Black, MyCase


With cost-conscious clients scrutinizing legal bills, lawyers cannot afford to depend on expensive legal research databases, especially when reliable free resources are available. This updated edition of Internet Legal Research on a Budget will help you quickly find the best free or low-cost resources online and use them for your research needs. The authors share the top websites, apps, blogs, and crowdsourced resources that will save you time, money, and frustration during the legal research process.


This book will help you locate and use:





Legal portals and directories (government, academic, and commercial);

Case law databases (government and commercial);

Federal Statutory research;

Federal, legislative, and congressional materials;

Starting points for state, local, territorial, and tribal law;

Foreign, international, and comparative law resources;

And more!

Judy K. Davis is a law librarian and adjunct assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Prior to coming to USC, she worked at the University of San Diego Pardee Legal Research Center. Earlier in her career, she also practiced law before a wise person showed her that her true calling was to be a librarian. She currently teaches legal research to USC law students, works in the law library's Reference Department, and gives lectures and training sessions on legal research and related topics. When not writing books about legal research or imparting knowledge to future attorneys, she likes to spend as much time as possible outdoors in beautiful Southern California. Carole A. Levitt, MLS, JD, is the founder and President of Internet For Lawyers (www.netforlawyers.com) and Vice-President of CLE webinars.com. She is a nationally recognized CLE seminar speaker and best-selling American Bar Association Law Practice Division (ABA LPD) author. She is an expert on Internet investigative and legal research; social media research; social media ethics; Google search and Cloud Apps; and technology for lawyers. Carole has been presenting CLE seminars full-time since 1999 throughout the United States. Carole co-authored Internet Legal Research on a Budget in 2014 for the ABA LP Division, with Judy Davis. The second edition was published June 2020. She has also co-authored six ABA LP Division books with her husband/co-speaker, Mark Rosch, including (1) Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers (2013); (2) Find Info like a Pro Volume 1 (2011), (3) Find Info like a Pro, Volume 2 (2011), (4) Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools (2010), (5) The Lawyers Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (3rd edition 2006), and  (6) The Lawyers Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (2d edition 2004). She has also co-authored fourteen editions of The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet with Mark Rosch (http://bit.ly/cyberabalp).  Previously, Carole was a California attorney, a law librarian in Chicago and Los Angeles, and a Legal Research and Writing Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. She graduated with distinction from UIC John Marshall Law School in Chicago and was a member of the school’s law review. Carole has a Masters in Library Science and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois. Carole is an active member of the ABA Law Practice Division, serving on its Publications Advisory Board since 2003 and on its Executive Council from 2006 to 2011. Carole is past Chair of the California State Bar’s LPMT Executive Committee and in 2013 became the second recipient of LPMT’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Recently, Carole was nominated as a Fellow to the College of Law Practice Management and was a recipient of the 2013 “Fastcase Fifty” award, recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Chicago, IL
Sprache englisch
Maße 177 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management
ISBN-10 1-64105-606-1 / 1641056061
ISBN-13 978-1-64105-606-9 / 9781641056069
Zustand Neuware
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