Final Quiz Study Guide

 

Legal Research Process

Process of Legal Research

Process of Legal Research Continued

Research Finding Methods - Checklist

Keeping Track of Your Legal Research

Finishing Your Legal Research

 

Finding Aids

The Importance of Using Finding Aids

What is a Subject Index?

What is a Subject Index Continued?

What is a Table of Contents?

 

Week 1

 

Class Goals

Goals for the Introductory Class

The Importance of Legal Research

 

Review

The Law

Common Law

American Government Review

 

Research Tutorials

WestlawNext Tutorials

Lexis Advance Tutorials

 

Read for Week 2 (Red Links Only)

 

Authority

Primary v. Secondary Authority

Mandatory v. Persuasive Authority

 

Secondary Sources

What is a Secondary Source?

Types of Secondary Sources

Types of Secondary Sources Continued

Secondary Source Formats

Locating Secondary Sources

Locating Secondary Sources Continued

Finding Print Secondary Sources

Finding Secondary Sources on WestlawNext

Updating Secondary Sources

Considerations in Selecting Secondary Sources

 

Read for Week 3 (Red Links Only)

 

State Statutes 

Legislative Process

What is an Act?

Codification of Statutes

Arizona Revised Statutes

Annotated v. Unannotated Codes

Parts of a Statute

Finding Statutes

Sources of Statutes

Finding Statutes in Print

Finding Statutes on WestlawNext

Finding Statutes on the Arizona State Legislature Website

Finding Adjacent Statutes

Updating Statutes

Updating Statutes in Print

Updating Statutes on the Arizona State Legislature Site

Updating Statutes on WestlawNext

Updating Statutes on LexisNexis

Effective Dates

Finding Effective Dates

Finding Effective Dates Continued

State Statutes Overview

 

Read for Week 4 (Red Links Only)

 

Court Rules

Arizona Court Rules

Federal Court Rules

 

Legal Forms

Legal Forms

Examples of Legal Forms

Sources of Legal Forms

Use Wisely

 

Read for Week 5 (Red Links Only)

 

State Case Law

Arizona Court Structure

What is an Opinion?

What is an Opinion Continued?

Precedent

Publication of Opinions

Publication of Opinions Continued

Sources for Cases

National Reporter System

Case Citations

Parts of a Case

Statutory Annotations

 

Read for Week 6 (Red Links Only)

 

Finding State Case Law

Case Finding Methods

West Key Numbers

West Key Numbers II

West Key Numbers III

One Good Case

Statutory Annotations

 

Read for Week 7 (Red Links Only)

 

Keyword Searching Basics

Databases

Search Engines

Silly Analogy

Different Types of Searching

Natural Language

Terms and Connectors

Terms and Connectors Searching

Two Step Process

Don't Rush In

 

Choosing Terms and Using Connectors

Concepts to Keywords

Identifying Useful Keywords

Using Alternative Keywords

Search Strategy

 

WestlawNext Examples

OR Connector

Singular and Plural

Truncation

Phrases

AND Connector

Proximity Connectors

Advanced Searching

 

Simplification

What Do I Really Need to Know

 

Tipsheets

WestlawNext Searching Tipsheet

 

More Advanced

Order of Operation

Noise Words

Field Searching

 

Read for Week 8 (Red Links Only)

 

Updating with KeyCite/Shepard's

What is a Citator?

One Good Case Revisited

History of Case Citators

What is a Citator (For Cases)?

What is a Citator (For Statutes)?

Citator Tutorials

Case Citator Purpose One - Direct Case History

Case Citator Purpose Two - Negative Treatment

Case Citator Purpose Three - Research

 

Read for Week 9 (Red Links Only)

 

Federal Statutes

Federal Legislative Process

Public Laws

United States Code

Finding Federal Statutes

 

Federal Cases

Federal Court Structure

District Courts

Courts of Appeals

Supreme Court

Finding Federal Cases

Case Citations - Federal

 

Read for Week 10 (Red Links Only)

 

Updating with KeyCite/Shepard's

Citator Tutorials - Watch these two Shepard's tutorials

 

Read for Week 11 (Red Links Only)

 

Arizona Administrative Law

What is a State Regulation

Arizona Administrative Code

Arizona Administrative Register  

Updating Arizona Regulations (WestlawNext)

 

Federal Administrative Law 

Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations

Federal Register

Updating Federal Regulations (WestlawNext)

 

Read for Week 12 (Red Links Only)

 

Goals

Finishing Your Legal Research Revisited