February is Immigration Law Resource Month at the Harris County Law Library. All month long, we’ll have print materials on all aspects of immigration law on display throughout our downtown location, including treatises like Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook and CLE coursebooks from TexasBarCLE, such as Advanced Immigration Law and Immigration Law 101. You’ll also find immigration law resources in the Law Library’s digital collection, including official immigration forms through Westlaw and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal on HeinOnline. Visit the Law Library in February for more information.
Latest and Greatest - Attorney's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
Attorney’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary
By Ira G. Dox, et al.
West Publishing Company, 1997 (& Supplement 2015)
R 121 .A8 1997
New on the library shelves is Attorney’s Illustrated Medical Dictionary. Written for attorneys, researchers, and anyone looking to understand medical terminology, this dictionary has over 30,000 terms, defined using simple rather than overly technical words that would require an additional resource to decipher. The illustrations are well-delineated with defined terms highlighted with red ink and arrows and lines indicating important aspects of the drawings. Appendices provide useful information such as abbreviations and symbols commonly used in medicine, reference values for laboratory tests of clinical importance, and an index to the illustrations. Various tables and illustrative plates are peppered throughout the book, offering the reader even more assistance with wading through complex medical concepts and terms.
Latest and Greatest - American Law Institute Library on HeinOnline
We are proud to announce our most recent addition to the HeinOnline family: the American Law Institute Library. This collection features ALI’s most well-known publications, including:
- Restatements & Principles of the Law
- Uniform Commercial Code
- ALI Annual Reports
- Proceedings of ALI Annual Meetings
- ALI Reporter
Plus, you can find model penal codes, other ALI-CLE Publications, and links to other scholarly articles found on HeinOnline.
Searching the ALI materials couldn't be easier. Simply connect to HeinOnline in the Law Library and choose the American Law Institute Library from Hein’s database home page. From there, you can browse through the alphabetized title lists or do a simple keyword search. Another option is to select the Advanced Search option and refine and limit your search to section titles, text, document type, and date. On the Results page, search terms are highlighted in yellow for easy viewing. In addition, all highlighted citations to the Restatements and cases are actually hyperlinks so all you have to do is click. How easy is that? Also, HeinOnline features a ScholarCheck tool that keeps track of the number of times a Restatement section has been cited.
So, come on over to the Library and be sure to take a look at the American Law Institute Library.
Latest and Greatest - The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet
The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet
Carole A. Levitt & Mark E. Rosch
Internet for Lawyers
KFT 242 .A1 L478 2015
Do you feel you need the investigative skills of Sherlock Holmes to find free legal resources and information on the Web? If so, then The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch is just the book for you. From the mechanics of Web searching for “newbies” to sophisticated search techniques for more savvy Web users, this book will help you locate public records, assets, vital records, criminal records, and older versions of Web pages. The authors also explain the importance and ethical concerns of searching social network sites, a practice that is becoming more common, especially in family law matters. Other sites for investigative and legal research include: search engines, court dockets, telephone directories, political campaign contribution sites, and case law databases. For those of you willing (and able) to spend the money, there are some pay investigative research databases the authors discuss and recommend.
Happy sleuthing!
Latest and Greatest - How to Manage Your Law Office
How to Manage Your Law Office
Mary Ann Altman & Robert I. Weil
Matthew Bender
KF 318 .A758
As part of Law Practice Management Month, the Harris County Law Library has been offering tips and recommending resources to help solo and small-firm lawyers better manage their practice. Another resource that we have here at the library is How to Manage Your Law Office. Whether you are a solo practitioner, a lawyer in a corporate law department, or an attorney in a governmental law office, this two-volume set is an indispensable tool in opening your office and keeping it running smoothly.
After discussing the organizational structure of the various types of law offices, the authors dive into the issues that affect the day-to-day management of the firm, such as legal fees, accounting basics, the roles of nonlawyer staff members, law office technology, and related ethical considerations and risks. The remainder of the book is devoted to strategic planning and marketing, the hiring of new associates and support staff, and law office design, all matters that can shape the success of your law practice.
