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Legal Research: Step by Step offers students essential guidance for mastering and applying legal research skills. It covers key topics such as identifying legal issues, analyzing a fact situation, and navigating primary and secondary research resources.
With its clear and structured approach, this bestseller leads readers through research methods and tools using straightforward language, defined key terms, screenshots, charts, diagrams, and practical exercises—ideal for students with little to no prior experience in legal research.
The sixth edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect current statutes, online resources, and McGill legal citation. It also features expanded discussion of online research sources while providing a balanced representation to Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta. Building on positive student feedback, this edition includes updated images and tables, expanded discussions on conducting legal research online, and videos and quizzes for students in the online LAW+ component.
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Up-to-date statutes, online sources, and graphics.
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Reflects all changes to legal citations made in the McGill Guide, 10th edition.
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New cases, exercises, and content, updated to include examples for British Columbia and Alberta, as well as Ontario.
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New material and an appendix on case briefing.
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Introduction of the FILAC method.
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Expanded discussion of subject-based searching or browsing as an alternative to keyword searching to the chapter on online research sources.
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Consolidated discussion of print research into a single chapter.
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Emphasis on utilizing online sources, including Justice Laws and Ontario e-Laws, as well as online versions of the CED and Halsbury’s, WestlawNext Canada, Lexis Advance Quicklaw, and CanLII.
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Detailed instructions on how to use research tools, including subject-based searching as an alternative to keyword searching.
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A chapter guiding students through a sample research problem, step by step, from start to finish.