PPLR2015 -- Secondary Sources

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Pennsylvania Practice- Oriented Legal Research Examples of secondary sources

Transcript of PPLR2015 -- Secondary Sources

1. Examples of secondary sources 2. Print resources Alumni & members of the bar have check-out privileges Electronic resources Online databases available only through public access terminals Except BloombergLaw, Lexis, Westlaw, and other databases that require an individual account to access 3. Comprehensive Practice Sets Ex. Standard Pa Practice 2d Comprehensive Form Books Ex. Dunlap-Hanna Pa Forms Concise Practice Manuals Ex. Pa Civil Practice Subject/Practice-specific Books Ex. Pa Child Custody Law, Practice & Procedure 4. Search the catalog 5. Click on the title 6. determine if Harrisburg has a copy 7. For alumni For bar members Six books for three weeks 8. Goodrich Amram 2d: Organized by rule number Standard Pa Practice 2d: Organized by subject Wests Pa Practice: Organized by practice area 9. CD table of contents 10. Dunlap-Hanna & Pa Transaction Guide are the Gold Standard! Difficult index Comprehensive coverage Wests Pa Forms dated Commentary helpful 11. Client Determination Form 12. VERY concise explanation of a civil case. Footnotes provide helpful rule, statute and case citation PA Civil Practice: organized by trial procedural matter. PA Civil Practice Handbook: organized by case type. 13. Pa Benchbook for Criminal Proceedings Pa Trial Guide: Criminal Wests Pa Practice Series: Pa Criminal Practice 14. PBI: The publishing arm of the Pa Bar Assoc. Widener has standing order for most PBI publications. PBI appears in publisher field of catalog search results. 15. Many practice areas have detailed treatises. Often with updated supplements Authored/edited by judges or attorneys in the field Footnotes contain helpful case & statute citations 16. Table of Contents Text/Supplement Secondary source leads to: commentary, opinions, and statute! 17. BNA Databases Tax & other practice areas HeinOnline Law journals Law Journal Press Practitioner resources LexisNexis Academic Cases & Statutes Loislaw Cases & Statutes & practice resources ProQuest Congressional Fed. legis. history SmartLitigator Local Rules http://harrisburglaw.widener.edu/current-students/law-library/resources/database-list/