Practitioner Materials

These are treatises and form books which provide a basic explanation of an area of law–often with step by step approaches and advice for handling a case along with recommended forms (find out more about legal research). They provide references to the basic authority such as leading cases or essential statutes (find out more about legal research). They tend not to provide explanations on the development of the law or argue for the direction the law should be developed in the future (find out more about legal research). California’s Continuing Legal Education series and New York’s Practicing Law Institute are strong examples of publishers providing the field with respectable and essential how-to resources (find out more about legal research).