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• Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research Guide to Canadian legal research, focusing on strategy and effective use of primary and secondary sources in both print and electronic formats.
  
• Legal Research Guide A basic introduction to sources of law, how to find them, how to make sure that they are current, and correct citation. Authored by Santa Barbara College of Law Professor Craig Smith.
  
• USC Law Library Research Guide An exhaustive guide to databases, secondary sources, and Internet sites that discuss a wide variety of substantive areas of the law. Also includes brief sections on legal research methodology and Internet research.
  
• LLRX.com Research Guide Andrew Zimmerman's guide to legal research. It is a wonderful site full of helpful information on finding the law. It can be useful to the layperson or even the experienced legal researcher.
  
• UCLA Law Library Research Guides Extremely useful guides to various types of legal research produced by the UCLA Law Library in Portable Document Format. Research topics include California and Federal legislative history, basic case and statutory research. Although written with the UCLA Law Library user in mind (such as call numbers and locations in-house), it can be a great starting point for someone not necessarily there.
  
• The Virtual Chase Guides lawyers and other legal professionals who want to conduct research on the Internet. Offers numerous articles on research strategies, research guides, and teaching tools.
  
• How to Shepardize How to use Shepards citators to determine precedential value of a case, statute, or other legal authority before relying on it in an argument.
  
• Duke University School of Law : Library : Research Guides Concise guides to research in various substantive areas in both the United States and Europe. These include U.S. federal tax, European Union, English Law, treaty research and North Carolina legal research.
  
• Legal Research Guide: an Annotated Finding Aid for Legal Professionals Legal Research Guide, by The Virtual Chase, assists researchers in their quest to find law and factual resources of excellent quality.