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Locating Free And Low-Cost Secondary Sources In Michigan, Cody James
Locating Free And Low-Cost Secondary Sources In Michigan, Cody James
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Secondary sources are all the legal resources that describe what the law is without actually having the force of law. For example, treatises, law review articles, and practice series are secondary sources while statutes, regulations, and cases are primary sources. Although secondary sources are not binding authority, they provide valuable, up-to-date insight and commentary about existing laws. These insights are especially useful when handling matters outside of an attorney’s usual areas of practice.
Unfortunately, secondary sources are not cheap — consider that a full set of Michigan Civil Jurisprudence has a retail cost of $25,119. That said, a lot of …
By Any Other Name, Shay Elbaum
By Any Other Name, Shay Elbaum
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The use of names to refer to individuals is probably as old as language itself, but many features of naming in the United States are much newer. For the most part, our naming laws and norms derive from England, where the use of surnames, for example, can be traced back to the Norman conquest and did not become a common practice until the 13th or 14th century. The idea of a surname as a family name, permanent and hereditary, is even newer.
The common law method of changing one’s name — simply using a different name, for non-fraudulent purposes — …
What's In A Number? Basic Statistical Literacy For Lawyers, Cody James
What's In A Number? Basic Statistical Literacy For Lawyers, Cody James
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There is a running joke within the legal profession that lawyers choose to go to law school because they are bad at math. Facially, this proposition makes sense. The bread and butter of the legal profession is written and oral advocacy, not numbers and arithmetic.
But the legal profession has never existed outside of the realm of numbers. And in today’s world of big data where judges’ decisions and opposing counsel’s actions can be quantified and packaged into orderly statistics, basic statistical literacy is a critical part of legal research and practice.