LGL 125 - Legal Research
Course Description
Effective: 2016-08-01
Provides an understanding of various components of a law library, and emphasizes research skills through the use of digests, encyclopedias, reporter systems, codes, citations, ALR, and other research tools. May include research through electronic databases, overview of computer applications, and writing projects.
Lecture 3 hours. Total 3 hours per week.
3 credits
General Course Purpose
This course serves as a requirement for the Paralegal Studies AAS.
Course Objectives
- Perform legal research;
- Identify legal resources; and
- Research a legal case or problem.
Major Topics to be Included
- Preliminary procedure in legal research
- Court reports
- Federal court decisions
- State court decisions and the national reports
- Digests for court reports
- Annotated law reports
- Citations