Looseleafs
Looseleafs in the One-L Dictionary
A frequently supplemented tool that specializes in a particular area of law and often contains primary legal sources, finding aids, and secondary source material. There are two major kinds of looseleaf services. cumulating and interfiling. Cumulating services add additional pages at the end of the set as new cases are published or new materials are developed. Interfiling services are updated by replacing superseded documents with revised pages.
Note: This Looseleafs definition in the One-L Dictionary for new law students is from Harvard Law School (HLS).
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Because of the need for currency and the amount of time involved in publishing books, the legal system relies extensively on looseleaf format for materials in some areas of law (find out more about legal research). These come in two major types (find out more about legal research). First, is the type in which additional pages are added at the end of the set as new cases are published or new materials are developed (find out more about legal research). United States Law Week, which reports activities of federal courts and publishes Supreme Court opinions, is an example (find out more about legal research). The majority of looseleaf sets, however, consist of binders of pages in which new pages are interfiled in the set at the point in the text where the changes have been made (find out more about legal research). This allows for materials to be updated on a regular basis, often weekly (find out more about legal research). Looseleaf sets may provide secondary source material or they may contain primary materials such as cases, regulations and statutes (find out more about legal research). Some sets contain almost everything a practitioner in that field would need (find out more about legal research). For example, the CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter has the internal revenue code, the tax regulations, cases, digests of cases, finding tools, and even a citator (find out more about legal research).
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