As anyone who has
ever done legal research knows, a good search eliminates noise leaving one to focus on the relevant portion of the results.
Not exact matches
What they have that others
do not are significant databases of secondary
legal -
research materials such as treatises, specialized
legal -
research materials in particular areas of concentration, and
ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.
What follows in this post are some initial thoughts on what I think is a fairly important topic for law librarians and
legal researchers: (a topic I might consider
researching in detail if I
ever were to pursue a doctorate in information studies): what, if anything, can be
done to lessen the anxiety that
legal researchers suffer during the
research process?
With the growing trend of fixed fee pricing, alternative fee arrangements, and other pre-arranged cost structures for
legal work, it is more important than
ever for a researcher to know several things that don't relate to the problem their
research is attempting to answer:...
Be aware, if you come to
do any
legal research at one of the LD libraries in the UK, that whilst we have a broader collection of e-resources than
ever, where and how you use some of it is still constrained.