A guide for non-lawyers researching legal problems

Cocky Law Blawg brings us this note:

The Legal Information Services to the Public (LISP) Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) just com­pleted its lat­est ver­sion of How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-​​Lawyers. It’s avail­able in PDF and Word for­mats from the LISP web­site.

via How to Research A Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-​​Lawyers « Cocky Law Blawg.

The mis­sion of LIPS is to improve access to legal edu­ca­tion and to pro­mote legal infor­ma­tion ser­vices to the pub­lic. In addi­tion to the Guide for Non-​​Lawyers, they also pro­vide a toolkit for pub­lic librar­i­ans.

Now that access to case law is even eas­ier for the gen­eral pub­lic to access (via Google Scholar), this kind of Guide is crit­i­cal to avoid mis­un­der­stand­ings of the unique com­plex­i­ties and chal­lenges of legal research.