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| Publication year | 2022 |
| Pages | 0050 |
BY SHEILA BALDWIN
Fastcase Secondary Sources: An Often-Overlooked Treasure
Free online legal research is available to all Bar members. Learn how to effectively use and navigate Fastcase. In-person training sessions are currently not being offered, but you may still sign up for a webinar hosted by Fastcase at www.fastcase.com/blog/free-fastcase-webinars.
Members typically log in to Fastcase to do primary legal research within cases, statues and regulatory law as these have binding authority. This article will cover secondary legal research content within Fastcase. Secondary sources provide persuasive authority to support your legal argument. They also can be a suitable place to begin a search because they clarify a topic by explaining the key issues and provide analysis of legal concepts. Secondary sources can also expand your research and help generate key words or phrases to use when searching for cases. Fastcase includes an abundance of secondary resources making it convenient to do all your legal research in one place. These libraries are available at no cost to Georgia members. This article will cover the content that is free with your Bar subscription.
Law Journals and Reviews
Fastcase offers Georgia law school journals and reviews as part of your Bar subscription. They can be searched individually or by browsing in an index format (see fig.1) When you search by the browse mode, you will notice that you are spontaneously seeing only Georgia and federal content. In browse mode, scroll down to Law Journals and Reviews and you will notice a magnifying glass icon, which allows for global searching, or you can open the indexed list to view one issue at a time based on chronological order (see fig. 2). You have access to Emory Law’s three journals: the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal, the Emory International Law Review and Emory Law Journal, as well as the Georgia State University Law Review and the Mercer Law Review. The University of Georgia’s four law reviews recently were added after popular request. They consist of the Georgia Law Review, the Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and the newest publication, the Georgia Criminal Law Review. The inaugural edition of the Georgia Criminal Law Review will be a welcome addition to those who specialize in this area of law as its integrated into...
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