Basic Legal Research Workbook, Revised Third Edition

Revised and updated for its Third Edition, Basic Legal Research Workbook utilizes a well-chosen range of exercises and assignments to familiarize students with basic research sources. Whether used with Amy Sloan’s Basic Legal Research text or another book, it gives students the opportunity to develop and refine their skills.

Basic Legal Research Workbook, Third Edition, addresses the needs of both students and instructors:

• a complete set of exercises gives students in-depth practice with all the key print and electronic sources
• organization mirrors Sloan’s successful text, Basic Legal Research, covering all the main research sources studied in the typical first-year course
• each chapter incorporates questions at four levels, progressing from basic source features to advanced research skills includes both print and electronic sources in each chapter, allowing flexibility
• assignments contain multiple fact patterns and can be worked in multiple jurisdictions, reducing the demand on single library sources

The Third Edition reflects user feedback as well as developments in legal research:

• updated exercises reflect changes in research sources including developments in electronic research
• exercises fine-tuned based on classroom experience with the problem sets