PLA 3309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: West American Digest System, Corpus Juris Secundum, American Law Reports
6 Apr 2016
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Can be used to understand basic legal terms and general concepts. Are tools used to find primary sources. Note: digests and citators are neither primary nor secondary authority and are never cited. Legal encyclopedias the two widely used national legal encyclopedias are. American law reports, case reporter with selected important cases chosen by the editor. Attorney general opinions, opinions on certain areas of the law. Restatements of the law, scholarly, forward thinking comments on the law. Legal dictionaries the two major legal dictionaries used in the u. s. are. Words and phrases is a judicial legal dictionary. Legal directories, where you find information about lawyers and firms. Formbooks, look at other lawyers files in similar cases. Legal periodicals, if you are a member of the fl bar it has information about what is happening throughout the state, judgeship openings, job postings, who has been disciplined by the bar, where people are moving around, etc. monthly.
