1. Elder Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library Janai Powell Lane, JD, MLIS February 2006 jplane@courts.state.ak.us 264-0588

2. 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?

3. Electronic Resources BNA Tax Management Portfolios http://library.bnatax.com/ Available at library

4. 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

5. 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 1949- 2000

6. Resources On-Line Federal Resources –http://Firstgov.gov http://Firstgov.gov Links to agencies Links to U.S. Code Links to CFR –www.findlaw.com www.findlaw.com –Disability Law Center http://www.dlcak.org/

7. State Resources On-line Links to all state legal resources at court website: http://www.state.ak.us/courts http://www.state.ak.us/courts Includes links to state sites for: –Alaska statutes http://www.legis.state.ak.us/folhome.htm –Alaska administrative code http://www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aachttp://www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aac? http://www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/aac –Alaska court rules http://www.state.ak.us/courts/rules.htm

8. New case law database http://government.westlaw.com/akcases Alaska Supreme Court and Ct of Appeals All published and most unpublished decisions back to 1960 No headnotes or keyciting Search by case name, attorney, date, and terms –AND, OR, BUT NOT –Truncation !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”

9. 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