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Preliminary Investigation: Searching federal court files

The Law, wherein, as in a magic mirror, we see reflected not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been! When I think on this majestic theme, my eyes dazzle. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. … Continue reading

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Preliminary investigation: how to find lawyers’ deskbooks

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. – Henry Ward Beecher. Lawyers desk books are published by legal publishers, of which there are very few nowadays (it seems they’ve all bought … Continue reading

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Preliminary Investigation: Lawyer’s Desk Books

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason … The law, which is perfection of reason. – Sir Edward Coke, First Institute (1628) If you’ve read Before finding a lawyer: What’s … Continue reading

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