The 2026 iteration of LLNE’s legal research instruction program will be entirely remote this year. It will be a combination of synchronous and asynchronous instruction, using zoom, the various google tools, video instruction, and the imagination of the great teaching librarians of the Law Librarians of New England.
The class will be run on six Wednesday evenings from March 18th through April 22nd. The sessions will be 1.5 hours each Wednesday, though there will be some pre-work and some optional homework with each class. To register, please fill out this form.
Instruction will 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
· Understanding administrative law
· Finding transactional law documents
· Finding information about businesses and people
· Putting everything together with legal research strategy
For the course, you will have access to some of the more important legal research tools in the profession, however we will also cover how to do effective legal research without some of the more expensive resources.
Course Fee: $150. You can pay using the Jotform, however if you need to pay by check please contact Brian at the email below.
Any interested public librarians can also apply for a scholarship to cover the registration cost. The deadline for the scholarship application is 3/15.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, March 18, 2025.
If you have any questions, please email Brian Flaherty.