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Fundamentals of Legal Research: Finding the Law
Find and Use Cases, Statutes,
Rules and Regulations
This course shows your staff how to efficiently locate and use legal information including case law, statues, rules and regulations.
This program helps you
locate and use legal documents quickly and effectively.
You'll learn:
- The fastest ways
to find and use legal documents in
print or online
- Different case types
(state-federal, trial-appeal), primary and secondary
sources, and citators
- The case citation system
(Please note, this course discusses federal, not state, law.)
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Sample Agenda |
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Basic overview of the U.S. Legal System and Secondary
Sources
10:15 Break
10:30 Statutory and Code Research
Constitution, Public Laws, U.S. Code, Online
Sources for Statutory Research
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Case Law Research
Supreme Court, Appeals Courts, Trial Courts, Other Federal
Courts (Bankruptcy, Claims, Tax, Military), Online
Resources for Case Law Research
2:45 Break
3:00 Regulatory Law Research
Federal Register, CFR, Administrative Decisions, Online
Resources for Regulatory Research
4:15 A Working Example
4:45 Conclusion and Evaluations
Online Tutorials, Legal Listservs, Current
Awareness Notification
5:00 Complete Evaluations and Conference Concludes
All custom training is
tailored for each organization and audience. Topics from
this program can be combined with topics from our other
programs and with topics from your existing training
programs.
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Sample Agendas
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Sample agendas of
different versions
of this program tailored for previous custom clients are available
in
Adobe
pdf format:
See our Sample
Agendas page for more.
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Audience Level |
Basic
research skills.
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Audience Size |
This
program is most effective for between 15 and 30
attendees.
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Previous Clients |
Our selected
client list includes clients who have purchased
custom training, sent staff to our public programs
and who have purchased our publications.
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Faculty |
This
course is taught by two faculty
members. One has more than 20 years experience
as a legal and legislative research specialist, and
the second is an attorney who served government and
public clients as a legal reference specialist
for ten years and has instructed seminars on legal
research and legislative history research for
congressional staff for more than 10 years.
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Rave Reviews
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"Research ability
increased. Love the
links @ the end of the presentation: I'm going to go
back and use them!" Director, Government
Affairs, Appraisal Institute
"When I'm
presented with a project involving legal research, I
will know where to look." Legal Technician,
FBI
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Course Materials |
Course
materials can include copy of The
Process of Legal Research, and a course
manual of over 200 pages that includes Internet
Resources for each attendee.
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Length and Location |
Usually requires 1 day.
This program is usually held in
Washington, DC. It can be presented anywhere in the
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Internal Marketing |
To
help you
publicize and market a custom program to your
organization's audience, we can provide printed
materials and language for your own internal
promotion and publicity.
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Fee |
The
fee for this program depends on the location, number
of attendees, length, and training materials.
Call us for details, or complete our custom
program information request for more
information.
If you
don't have enough people for a custom, on-site program,
you can still train your staff at our public
course.
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What is included in the fee? |
TheCapitol.Net
tailors each program to meet your training and
educational objectives. Before we issue a cost
proposal, we will work with you to tailor a program
to meet your training objectives. We provide
all course materials and faculty chosen for your
topic and your audience at the time and location you
choose.
Our
custom program clients provide the classroom/meeting
space, all audio visual equipment, any food and
beverages, all registration functions, and travel
arrangements for attendees. When the program is held
outside the Washington, DC metro area, travel
arrangements for faculty can be made by the client
or by us.
We can also provide meeting space,
audio visual equipment, food and beverage,
registration, and travel arrangements, though this
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FAQs |
See
FAQs
About Our Custom On-Site Training.
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Payment |
TheCapitol.Net
accepts all forms of payment for its custom
training, including credit cards (VISA,
MasterCard,
Discover,
American Express), government procurement cards,
checks, EFT, and purchase orders.
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About Us |
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Inc., is a non-partisan small business,
and a Virginia corporation. We are registered
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About Us page for more details.
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Last updated:
January 13, 2010
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