Elder Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library Janai Powell Lane, JD, MLIS February

Resources in the library Print Materials –Books & Law Reviews can be checked out –We get BNA Tax Management Portfolios –Representing the elderly or disabled client: forms and checklists with commentary –Advising the elderly or disabled client: legal, health care, financial, and estate planning –Elderlaw, advocacy for the aging –Uniform Laws Annotated –Restatements –What other resources do you wish we had?

Electronic Resources BNA Tax Management Portfolios Available at library

Westlaw at the Law Library Free All states and all federal statutes All states and all federal case law Keyciting – update the statutes or cases Am.Jur. Legal Forms Law Review articles

Heinonline at Library Heinonline is an online database available in the law library Includes participation by over 1100 journals usually back to volume 1 Federal Register back to 1936 CFRs back to 1938 Compilation of Sections Affected

Resources On-Line Federal Resources – Links to agencies Links to U.S. Code Links to CFR – –Disability Law Center

State Resources On-line Links to all state legal resources at court website: Includes links to state sites for: –Alaska statutes –Alaska administrative code –Alaska court rules

New case law database Alaska Supreme Court and Ct of Appeals All published and most unpublished decisions back to 1960 No headnotes or keyciting Search by case name, attorney, date, and terms –AND, OR, BUT NOT –Truncation ! E.g., negl! –quotations are available e.g., “adverse possession”

Case law Database Searching No locate but can use Control F to find terms within a case Space = OR so remember to type AND Search example – “environmental impact statement” and neighborhood Search by case name – instructions are incorrect. Need to type in one name or both names with And in between