…(but no agita), which is: “why isn’t there a satisfactory legal equivalent to The Best American Science Writing?” (I’m working through the 2008 edition now.) Or is there? There…
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Oregon Lawyers: Legal Writing Brevity Challenge
At the end of the April 2015 “The Legal Writer” column in the OSB Bulletin, Suzanne Rowe poses a Brevity Challenge: “How much can you say in just a…
Research Tip on Finding Free & Low Cost Legal Research Databases
LoisLaw is dead; long live Fastcase/Loislaw. Research Tip: Good word searches won’t get you very far if you don’t update your research. (And all good legal researchers know how…
Legal Research in the Time of Covid-19, Part 1: General Legal Resources
…legal research options. The following are free general legal research tools to help you work from home. Case Law & Statutes Fastcase is available to all members of…
Writing and Legal Writers (Readers too) Update
The following legal writing blog has come to my attention: Set in Style. The number of legal writing blogs and web sites is growing. Take a look at…
Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
…Legal research Note-up (noting up) Poor man’s Shepard’s (aka meatball Shepard’s, and vegan versions) Search for subsequent history or negative history Shepardizing Shepcite Treatment analysis Using a citator Validate Validate…
Quick and Dirty (and relatively $$ Cheap) Legal Research
Quick and Dirty Research Strategy: 1) Make an outline of your Quick and Dirty Legal Research strategy and take good notes as you proceed, especially keeping track of citations,…
Free and Low-Cost Legal Research G2G (Guides to Guides) (July 2013 Update)
When The Google isn’t good enough and you need Good Value (i.e. not full-service & not expensive) for full-text, all-cases or statutes (or almost all) legal research database searching:…
Free Legal Forms Templates (NOT fill-in-the-blank forms!)
We’re beginning to compile a list of free, online, legal formatting templates. NOTE: this is NOT a list of “fill in the blank” legal action-specific forms. These are very simple forms templates,…
How Do I Find Help with Legal Research in Another State?
…courthouse or online. Court clerks generally are not allowed to give legal advice, but they may be able to suggest programs their court might have in place, or places to…
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