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Legislative History
Regulations
Miscellaneous
Corporate Research
Secondary Sources
100
Official transcript for Congressional proceedings and debates, published daily when Congress is in session.
What is the Congressional Record?
100
Free government database where the CFR is constantly updated; however, debate is ongoing over whether it should be considered 'official'.
What is the e-CFR?
100
Firms are beginning to make informed decisions about trial strategy based on compiled data, essentially employing "Money Ball for lawyers." What is this field called?
What is Legal Analytics?
100
Section of a company website which typically has company information like stock performance, annual reports, and corporate governance documents.
What is investor relations?
100
Law review articles written by students.
What are notes or comments?
200
Legislative history document which is generally considered to be the most indicative of intent and which accompanies the bill to the floor to be voted upon.
What are Committee Reports?
200
Website where you can comment on proposed regulations and proposed amendments to current regulations.
What is regulations.gov?
200
This is the best place to conduct a federal docket search because of the ease of searching, variety of search methods and you don't have to pay per search or per view of results.
What is Bloomberg Law?
200
Abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market.
What is a ticker symbol?
200
Source which provides in-depth treatment on a subject and is typically considered 'definitive' on a particular subject area.
What are treatises?
300
A source which contains the best compiled legislative histories.
What is ProQuest or CIS Indices?
300
Utah's version of the Federal Register where notices of proposed rules and notices of rule effective dates are published.
What is the Utah State Bulletin?
300
This database provides local (Utah, Wyoming & Nebraska) settlement information by case type.
What is Rocky Mountain Jury Verdicts and Settlements?
300
System which performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
What is EDGAR?
300
Shepard's Causes of Action and AmJur Trials are examples of this type of resource.
What are practice guides? (Are also called practice sets.)
400
Four types of documents one looks at in compiling a legislative history.
What are bills, hearings, floor debates, and committee reports?
400
Legislation passed by Congress that defines an agency's mission and allows it to promulgate rules to implement and enforce regulations.
What is enabling legislation?
400
One way to see if the United States is party to a treaty.
What is either (1) look at Treaties in Force or (2) look at the treaty in the treaty depository to find a list of parties?
400
An annual report required by the Securities and Exchange Commission that gives a comprehensive summary of a company's financial performance.
What is a 10-K?
400
Written by practitioners and available on a variety of topics, these newsletters summarize recent developments including cases and regulatory actions and are a key current awareness resource in practice.
What are BNA Law Reports?
500
This website allows you to locate bills and Congressional votes, as well as allowing you to search Federal bills by Congressional sponsor.
What is Congress.gov?
500
Name three things you will find as part of the publication of a proposed or final rule in the Federal Register. (There are 7 possible things, but we will give you credit if you can name at least 3)
What are (1) summary of the rule or action, (2) enabling authority, (3) contact information (if proposed rule), (4) hearing information (if applicable), (5) rule itself, (6) citation to where rule will appear in the CFR, (7) effective date (if final rule).
500
This is where you go if you want to find information about a specific parcel of land in Salt Lake County.
What is the Salt Lake County Recorder's Office website ("Interactive Parcel Search")?
500
Standard code used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. economy.
What is NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) or SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)?
500
Courts often respect these compilations of principles derived from common law rules as nearly as authoritative as court decisions.
What are Restatements?