2. 1)Types: Primary Secondary Helpers 2)Library Books 3)Internet NY Courts Website Tanbook Citation Services 4)Computer Assisted Legal Research Resources for Legal Research

3. Types of Sources A.Primary B.Secondary C.Helpers 1

4. PRIMARY This is the actual law Constitutions Statutes Rules and Regulations Cases

5. Constitutions Federal New York Constitutional Law Case Law Courts’ interpretation of the constitution) PRIMARY

6. Statutes Federal United States Code United States Code Annotated United States Code Service PRIMARY

7. Statutes New York McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of NY, Annotated Consolidated Law Service PRIMARY

8. Rules and Regulations Federal Code of Federal Regulations New York New York Code, Rules and Regulations PRIMARY

9. Federal Cases Supreme Court Court of Appeals District Court PRIMARY

10. Federal Cases Supreme Court United States Reports Supreme Court Reporter Lawyers’ Edition 1st Series 2d Series PRIMARY

11. Federal Cases Court of Appeals Federal Reporter 1st series 2d series 3d series PRIMARY

12. Federal Cases District Court Federal Supplement 1st series 2d series PRIMARY

13. New York Cases Court of Appeals Appellate Division Appellate Term Trial Courts PRIMARY

14. New York Cases Court of Appeals New York Reports 1st series 2d series 3d Series PRIMARY

15. New York Cases Appellate Division Appellate Division Reports 1st series 2d series 3d Series PRIMARY

16. New York Cases Appellate Term & Trial Courts Miscellaneous Reports 1st series 2d series 3d Series PRIMARY

17. Secondary Sources of Law These are not the law (The law is found in primary) They explain the law They come from Legal Writers/Commentators Lawyers Professors

18. Secondary Sources of Law A.Encyclopedias B.Restatements C.Hornbooks SECONDA RY

19. Secondary Sources of Law A.Encyclopedias American Jurisprudence New York Jurisprudence Corpus Juris Secundum SECONDA RY

20. Secondary Sources of Law B.Restatements Contracts Torts Other areas SECONDA RY

21. Secondary Sources of Law C.Hornbooks Siegel’s New York Practice SECONDA RY

22. Helpers Law Dictionary New York Digests

23. New York Cases are published in New York Reports (NY, NY2d, NY3d) This is the official reporter New York Cases are also published in New York Supplement (NYS) Published by West This is unofficial But it contains more than just the case…. HELPER S

24. New York Digests The West editors take a case and adds headnotes Headnotes are a summary of a legal point made in the case There can be one to many headnotes per case it depends on how many legal points there are in a particular case HELPER S

25. New York Digests What do they do with all those headnotes? Each headnote gets a keynumber based on similar rules They organize them into topics and publish them in Digests Use them to find similar cases HELPER S

27. Books in Our Library General Federal New York 2

28. Books in Our Library General Corpus Jurisprudence Secundum Law Dictionary Law Thesaurus Text Books

29. Books in Our Library Federal US Reports & Lawyers Edition US Supreme Court Digests Code of Federal Regulations US Code & US Code Service

30. Books in Our Library New York McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated New York Supplement New York Digests

31. The Internet

32. NY Courts Website Search Engines 3

33. The Internet NY Courts Website New York Style Manual (Tanbook) Citation Services

34. The Internet Search Engines Google Bing

35. COMPUTER- ASSISTED LEGAL RESEARCH

36. On line Legal Research Services LexisNexis Westlaw 4