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Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001
by Sam Rutherford
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2001, page 18
by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind
Filed under:
Reviews,
Court Access,
Law Library Access/Adequacy.
Location:
United States of America.
Legal Research does exactly what its title indicates; it explains how to find and understand the law. The book is written in easy to understand language, while imparting a vast amount of information in a comprehensive manner.
The book is broken down into sections ...
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