1. What You Always Wanted to Know About Legal Research * * But Were Afraid to Ask

2. Overarching Themes Update Take advantage of the work of others Use help services

3. Acronyms & Words Bieber’s Bluebook Black’s & general dictionaries Words & Phrases

4. Leave It to Bieber’s Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations Dictionary of Legal Citations

5. The Bluebook Blue pages Tables & abbreviations Jurisdiction- specific Courts, documents, states, periodicals, services

6. Words and Phrases Judicially defined Nationwide Annual pocket parts Westlaw: search cases or statutes, field WP (term)

7. Unfamiliar Topic Find a research guide Consult a treatise Check ALR or Causes of Action Read a law review article

8. Treat-ises Scholarly Comprehensive Authoritative Corbin on Contracts Nimmer on Copyright

9. Washington Wash. Practice Wash. Lawyers Practice Manual WSBA deskbooks (Loislaw) Wash. Legal Researcher’s Deskbook 3d

10. Fact Pattern American Law Reports Causes of Action (tort- based)

11. Law Reviews Index vs fulltext Hein Online for “historic” articles Shepard’s & Keycite Annotated codes

12. Forms Formbook collections LexisNexis & Westlaw databases Office boilerplate

13. Facts Public libraries –Seattle Public –Internet Public Library Almanacs

14. Constitutions Initial volumes of statutory codes Annotated codes cite to law review articles & cases

15. Statutes Easier to read in print Easier to update online Popular names Tables

16. Effective Dates Washington 90 days after adjournment Laws of Wash. RCWA tables & pocket parts United States Presidential signature OR as stated in the act Statutes at Large USC, USCA & USCS

17. Legislative History Shortcuts USCCAN LexisNexis Congressional LexisNexis & Westlaw Bibliographies

18. 50 State Surveys M-H Law Digest National Survey of State Laws Subject Compilations of State Laws Uniform Laws Annotated

19. Caselaw One good case Secondary sources Update online

20. Missile - any Admin. decisions Court rules Ethics opinions Judicial biographies Jury instructions Jury verdicts

21. Bag ‘O Tricks How to use a new source Smaller, targeted databases System as a citator

22. Paper Trail CALR searches Internet finds Citator checks Dead ends

23. Stop When... You have found the answer The cost exceeds the benefit Multiple sources cite the same authorities

24. Kindness of Strangers