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Keys to Legal Research

17 Mar

( From “How to Win in Court” Course )
Click or Call 866-LAW-EASY Toll Free!

Ignorance of the Law is NO EXCUSE!

If “ignorance of the law is no excuse” then knowing how to find official law that will decide the outcome of your case is critical to winning!

Fortunately, the “law of your case” is much simpler than you might imagine and easy to find! Most cases are won or lost on very few “laws”, perhaps a single statute and 3-4 appellate court decisions interpreting how that statute applies to the facts.

If you had to go to court 30 years ago, before personal computers and the internet, you’d have to dig through the dismally dry and boring stacks of thousands of look-alike books in a law library (if you could find one nearby). Back then, winning a lawsuit required litigants to spend hour-upon-hour turning dusty pages, pulling down piles of books to spread on the library table next to their yellow pad in what was often a fruitless search for the legal support their arguments needed.

All that has changed, thanks to the internet and competition between legal research sites that is driving the price down to a reasonable level where pretty much anyone who needs to do on-line legal research can afford it.

But, will you know how?

My course materials on legal research include videos showing actual screen-shots of on-line searches so an average 8th grader with reasonable computer skills will be able to find constitutional provisions, statutes, code, and appellate court opinions to support pretty much any legal argument you can think of.

These days it’s sooo easy to do legal research on-line … an average 8th grader can do it!

Instead of digging through thousands of books differing only by the numbers printed on their impressively formidable spines, you can log-on any of the growing number of competent legal databases and, with the flick of a few keyboard fingers find thousands of cases that deal with the issues of your case in seconds!Learn from Jurisdictionary step-by-step

Google® can get you started … for free!

But, don’t rely on Google® as the final authority. Google® will provide a good start in most cases, but before you go to court to argue how the appellate opinion you found is the final say-so, you need to dig deeper.

My affordable, official, 24-hour step-by-step Jurisdictionary “How to Win in Court” self-help course explains legal research with examples you can try out for yourself. Once you finish the course you’ll know how to find appellate decisions that favor your cause … and you’ll know how to cite them to the court in proper format. You’ll know how to tell the judge why you should win by citing authorities the judge is required by law to obey: court rules, cases, constitutional provisions, statutes and codes.

Clever argument is not enough.

You cannot win without finding and citing the legal authorities that control judges.

Those who don’t know how to find and cite legal authority cannot control judges nor win on appeal so they lose needlessly!

In the heat of your lawsuit battles, you can be certain the other side will cite legal authorities favoring his case.

It’s essential to winning!

You must do the same thing if you want to win.

www.Jurisdictionary.com

 

Browsing On Sunday: Words, Social Media and the Courts, and SCT Opinions

30 Jan

Business Insider highlights the Google Ngram Viewer which searches the Google book database for frequency of words. The viewer can take multiple words and graph their usage between 1800 and 2000. It’s a good way to measure how terms for…

 
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What is a Defense Attorney’s Job? Defend At Any Cost, Confuse Witnesses If Possible

17 Dec

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Google Undocumented Search Operators Out of Date and Updated

07 Dec

In response to the Google undocumented operators post from Monday, Gary Price from INFODocket, as does Carol Ebbinghouse in a comment to that post notes that the Googleguide pages are not up to date. Gary reports that the pages haven’t…

 

Google To Seek Dismissal of the Book Scanning Case

07 Dec

Google is asking the District Court to dismiss the claims brought against it by the Author’s Guild et al. This comes as settlement talks still appear to be ongoing, though nowhere near any agreement. I don’t know if this is…

 

From Point A to Point B: Can a court take judicial notice of the distance as calculated by Google Maps?

06 Dec

According to the recent opinion in United States v. Sessa, 2011 WL 256330 (E.D.N.Y. 2011), the answer is “yes” writes Colin Miller. See his EvidenceProf Blog post for details. [JH]

 

Undocumented Search Operators In Google

05 Dec

Searching Google, or any search engine for that matter, almost always offers relevant results, though with a lot of noise hits thrown in just for the fun of it. I’ve always imagined how Google might benefit from using Boolean connectors…

 

Providing Users with Search Algorithm Information

22 Nov

Matt Cutts, Distinguished Engineer, recaps ten changes to Google’s algorithm implemented during the last couple of weeks on Google’s official Inside Search blog including, for example: Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content: This change helps us choose…

 

Authors Guild Complains About Amazon’s Kindle Book Lending Program

15 Nov

If the Authors Guild hates libraries it hates electronic libraries even more. We know about the suit against the HathiTrust, which is the outgrowth of litigation against Google for scanning books without permission, assuming permission is necessary. No court has…