Table of Contents


Top of The 5 Hour Law School :-)


Questions and Comments

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Glossary of Legal Germs


Part 1


Q: Why do lawyers need our books?

Q: Which set of books does a lawyer look at first?

Q: Where do the CD-ROM products fit in?

How does one of our clients become a lawyer (and how to avoid the same fate)?

Q: What classes does a first year law student take?


The "THREE PRIZES" of law school
Q: Why isn’t the 5 Hour law School written in a more "Tom Clancy-ish" writing style?

The Bar Exam

A special note concerning personal injury lawyers


Part 2


How does someone identify a set of books just by looking at the outside cover?

Case Law

Q: How do I identify a set of books that contains case law?

Q: How does a judge's written opinion for a case end up in one of our sets of case reporters?

Q: What is a "case cite" or "citation"?

Q: What is a "parallel cite(s)"?

Q: What is a pinpoint cite?

The Federal Court System


Statutes or Code or Laws

Q: What is an "Annotated" Statute?

Q: What is a "Case Blurbs"

Q: What do the words "Annotated" or "Annotated Statute" mean?


Jurisprudences

Q: What is a Jurisprudence?


Forms Books

Q: What are Forms Books?


ALR Articles or Annotations

Q: What is ALR?


Rules or Regulations

Q: What are Rules and Regulations and how are they different from laws?


Digests

Q: What is a digest

Q: "I am not impressed, what is the big deal about Key Numbers, again"?



Part 3

Miscellaneous Topics

Q: What is Westlaw and LEXIS/NEXIS?

Q: Why do Instacite, Shepards, and Auto-Cite exist and of what use is it?

Q: What is the Harvard Bluebook?

Q: What is the difference between "In re" and "In the matter of" when they are part of a case name?


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