On Legal Research - 01 - Legal Research and Its Objectives
[IMAGE CREDIT: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS] WHAT IS LEGAL RESEARCH? Legal research is the systematic process of identifying, locating, and analyzing legal information to address specific legal issues or questions. According to Black's Law Dictionary, legal research is "the investigation of the law concerning a given issue or question, especially by searching for relevant statutes, cases, and secondary sources, such as legal treatises, that may shed light on the issue". WH Putman defines it as "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making". KC Olson opines that legal research is "the process of find...