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LEGAL 215 Legal Ethics and Role of Legal Professional

Information Literacy Assignments

Information Literacy and the Legal Professional/Information Literacy Survey

Legal Research: Overview of Resources (Traditional and Electronic), Citation systems

Reading:

Brooke Gladstone, The Influencing Machine (2011), pages 47-55

Citation Handouts

Continue Legal Research: Methods and Updating/Legal Citators

New Assignment (Assignment 7): Researching court opinion

• Instructions: Using Lexis-Nexis Academic, locate an opinion from the Alaska Supreme Court or Alaska Court of Appeals discussing the unauthorized practice of law. Print the first page of the case, and the pages on which the UPL discussion appears. Highlight the references to UPL.

Library Work Session on Legal Research

New Assignment (Assignment 8): Legal resources in print scavenger hunt