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| About This Course | ||
This exciting course is designed to teach advanced and specialized approaches to utilize the legal resources available in a law library, and elsewhere. The conceptual differences between computer-assisted legal research and hard copy research will be taught. You will also learn how to formulate WESTLAW search queries and effectively and efficiently use WESTLAW and other online legal research methods as timesaving devices in legal research and legal writing. This course is designed to examine more thoroughly advanced and specialized approaches to utilizing the legal sources available in the law library and online. Successful
graduates of this non-credit course will be awarded a Certificate of Completion
from the college or university of their choice. Lesson 4: Sources of Law, Course Overview. Job search strategies and placement possibilities will also be discussed. Course Objectives:
Participants will be expected to complete reading and homework assignments and will choose or be assigned an advanced legal research project to be submitted in class. Final research projects will be presented for grading to the instructor or The Center for Legal Studies as a prerequisite of course completion. |
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| Live Lecture Format | ||
The
Center for Legal Studies features in a live lecture format the same Advanced
Legal Research Certificate Course that has been offered online for over
10 years at colleges and universities throughout the nation. Classes are
held on campus and instruction in a law library is included. This
course is designed to examine more thoroughly advanced and specialized approaches
to utilizing the legal sources available in the law library and online.
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| Required Course Books | ||
Books required for the Live Lecture format:
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| Highly Recommended Resources | ||
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LEGAL RESOURCES:
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