Change is good. That's why Advanced Legal Research no longer exists at Pierce Law.

In its place (sort of) is our attempt at 21st Century legal research education: preparing information literate graduates for law practice. We've made it a mini-course (1 credit) so that different aspects of research accomplished by summers and associates can be covered. We hope to provide students with the ability to determine they need information, what information is needed, where to find such information, how to be efficient in retrieving information, and how to analyze the information retrieved. All of this will be in the context of solving client problems, rather than focusing on specific tools.

This Spring we'll offer two variants. A student could take both for credit, but can also take either independently:

LPIL - Fact Research (taught by Tom Hemstock) will focus on items that most law firm research requires, information about companies, etc.(Watch this space for more details)

LPIL- Legal Research (taught by me) (Tuesdays 1-3 starting March 2, 2010) will focus on the kinds of legal research often required in firms, such as legislative history, looseleaf services, 50 state surveys, practice sets, and the like.

   Barry