Articles Tagged with Legal research databases

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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, effective keywords, and other results you find along the way.

2) Search Google or other search engine: You can find official and unofficial statutes, appellate court briefs, law review articles, case law, subject-specialist lawyer and law professor blogs, and much more.

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Lawyers and other legal researchers rely on the West Key Number system and the Lexis equivalent headnote system to find relevant case law.

If you want to know how these indexing systems work “behind the scenes,” here’s an article for you:

“The Case for Curation: The Relevance of Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis,” by Susan Nevelow Mart and Jeffrey Luftig.

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“New Reference Resource: NYU Launches History of Undercover Reporting Database,” filed by Gary Price, InfoDocket, on August 6, 2012:

New York University has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. The archive, “Undercover Reporting,” includes an array of stories, ranging from the slave trade in 1850s to efforts to boycott Jewish-owned businesses in the U.S. in the late 1930s to treatment of soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in the 21st century….” [Link to InfoDocket blog post.]

Link to Undercover reporting dot org.

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There are many free, publicly accessible, legal research databases in Oregon County Law Libraries.  We update the Oregon County Law Libraries Legal Research Databases directory at least twice a year.
It’s called the “Oregon County Law Libraries Legal Research Database Grid,” and you can find it at the Oregon Resources webpage of the Washington County Law Library.
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