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Legal Questions?

Legal Questions?. How To Locate More Information Using: Lexis-Nexis. Primary Sources of Law . Statutory Law Case or Common Law Administrative Law. Statutory Law. Laws enacted by federal or state legislatures Federal- United States Code State- General Laws of Massachusetts.

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Legal Questions?

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  1. Legal Questions? How To Locate More Information Using: Lexis-Nexis

  2. Primary Sources of Law • Statutory Law • Case or Common Law • Administrative Law

  3. Statutory Law • Laws enacted by federal or state legislatures • Federal- United States Code • State- General Laws of Massachusetts

  4. Case or Common Law • Decisions issued by federal or state courts • Federal- U.S. Reports, F. 3d, F. Supp. 2d • State- Massachusetts Reports, Massachusetts Appeals Court Reports

  5. Administrative Law • Rules and regulations issued by federal or state administrative agencies • Federal- Federal Code of Regulations • State- Code of Massachusetts Regulations

  6. Secondary Sources of Law • Law Reviews, Legal Periodicals • Legal Encyclopedias • American Law Reports • Treatises

  7. Lexis-Nexis • Lexis-Nexis contains more than 300 full-text law reviews and over 200 legal newspapers and periodicals

  8. Go to Library Homepage

  9. Select Lexis-Nexis

  10. Select Legal Research

  11. Select Law Reviews

  12. Searching Law Reviews

  13. Select a Law Review

  14. Find A Relevant Section

  15. Locate Case in Footnotes

  16. Get A Case

  17. Read and Brief Case

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