Announcing the 2017 LLNE Legal Research Instruction Program
Six weeks of hands-on instruction in the basic skills and materials of legal research, taught by experienced law librarians from the membership of the Law Librarians of New England (LLNE)
Days: Six Tuesday evenings
Dates: March 14 to April 25, 2017 (excluding April 18th)
Times: 5:45 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Place:
Suffolk University Law Library
120 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02108
Topics covered include:
- Overview of the US legal system
- Introduction to legal research methods, including using secondary sources
- The role of case law, the courts and case finding tools, such as digests
- The organization of statutes and conducting a legislative history
- Finding regulations and geting an understanding generally of administrative law
- Finding transactional law documents
- Finding information about businesses and people
- Putting everything together with legal research strategy
Course Fee: $150. Payable by check (see registration form) or credit card.
Registration deadline: Friday, March 7th, 2017
Registration form is available in PDF or Word format
If you have any questions, please email Brian Flaherty
Syllabus coming soon