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On Specialized Legal Research, Mary Whisner Jan 2016

On Specialized Legal Research, Mary Whisner

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Ms. Whisner describes what specialized legal research is and how students are initially exposed to the various topics that fall within the category, including taxation, intellectual property, and health law. She then provides strategies for learning about specific bibliographic sources and about the specialized vocabulary used to perform the necessary research.


Data, Data, Data, Mary Whisner Jan 2016

Data, Data, Data, Mary Whisner

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The legal profession often requires extensive data for everything from simple statistical questions to large-scale empirical research projects. Ms. Whisner discusses some of her favorite sources for finding and evaluating statistics.