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Administrative Law
Non-Legal Secondary Sources
Lexis/Westlaw
Electronic Searching
Pot Pourri
100
Free government website that contains the Federal Register and CFR.
What is gpoaccess.gov or FDSys.gov
100
A book (or database) that is commonly used to find statistical information.
What is Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. or census.gov?
100
The fastest way to determine if a particular publication or database is on Lexis (or Westlaw).
What is "Find a Source" tab for Lexis and "Search for a Database" box on Westlaw?
100
What you would do if you were in an unfamiliar database and wanted to type in the most effective search you could.
What is check for "help or "search tips", etc. around the search box?
100
Where the Vernal City Code is located.
What is the Vernal City website?
200
Where you would look to update the regulations in the bound volumes of the CFR.
What is the List of Sections Affected?
200
A database that is used to locate financial information on public companies.
What is Hoover's, Standard & Poors, etc.?
200
Best way to formulate a keyword search on Lexis and Westlaw for a personal name.
What is /1 , e.g. Barak /1 Obama?
200
Internet search engine that does metasearches.
What is Dogpile? (there are others such as Metacrawler.com)
200
Attorney directory that rates individual attorneys.
What is Martindale-Hubbell (martindale.com)?
300
Where notices of federal agency hearings are posted.
What is the Federal Register?
300
Where you would go to discover real property owned by an individual.
What is Intelius.com or Accurint.com, or Lexis/Westlaw Public Records, or County Recorder databases?
300
Besides ease of use, this is when you would use Natural Language Searching over Terms and Connectors when searching on Lexis or Westlaw.
What is when you are Searching for Broad Concepts--such as negligence, or you are Retrieving Too Many Results, or you are Not Retrieving What You Are Looking For using a Terms and Connectors search?
300
Database that finds the plural and singular forms of a word automatically when doing a full-text search.
What is Lexis?
300
Place you would look to locate journal articles on non-legal topics.
What is Marriott Library Articles Databases link on Marriott website?
400
Where you can find case annotations to CFR sections.
What is KeyCiting or Shepardizing?
400
A reliable, low-cost source for locating people, performing background checks and obtaining real property information.
What is Accurint or Intelius (among others)?
400
Name of online database that contains the Rocky Mountain Jury Verdicts & Settlements.
What is Lexis?
400
Eight databases that contain the full text of Utah cases.
What is Lexis, Westlaw, Loislaw, Versuslaw, Casemaker, utcourts.gov, LexisOne.com, Findlaw.com, GoogleScholar.com?
400
Four factors you would consider when evaluating a legal web site.
What is Accuracy/Objectivity, Authority, Currency, Coverage?
500
Free government database where the CFR is always updated (not yet designed "official").
What is the e-CFR?
500
A website where you can get information about road construction projects in Utah.
What is www.udot.utah.gov or start at utah.gov, then work down.
500
Order that connectors are processed in on Westlaw and Lexis.
What is phrase "", or, +n, /n, +s, /s, +p, /p, &, % on Westlaw and or, /n, pre/n, not /n, /s, /p, and, and not on Lexis?
500
Database that contains Tribal Court opinions.
What is Versuslaw.com?
500
Three "search tips" to help you find results if you are not finding what you want when searching on the Internet.
What is 1) use more than one search engine, 2) avoid looking at ONLY the top 15-20 search results on the list, 3) avoid using the same search across a number of search engines if you are not retrieving pertinent results, and 4) limit your search to a particular domain if appropriate, e.g. .gov, .edu,etc.)?