Law: Research Effectively with Secondary Sources

Using secondary sources is often the most efficient way to do legal research. They provide analysis by legal scholars and citations to the most important court cases relevant to the point(s) of law you are researching.

Legal Dictionaries

Black's Law Dictionary
Building on the strength of previous editions, this edition includes an extensive appendix on legal abbreviations plus 17000 new definitions, explanation of more than 1000 law-related abbreviations and acronyms, and is enhanced with West Key Numbers for research reference.
Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations
Publication Date: 2001

A comprehensive list (more than 35,000) of abbreviationsused in legal encyclopedias, law dictionaries, lawreporters, loose-leaf services, law reviews, legaltreatises, legal reference books and citators. In additionto providing the meaning of abbreviations and acronyms, thisedition also enables the user to locate the abbreviationsfor titles, terms and names used in legal literature.

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Subjects: Law, Social Sciences

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