LSC-North Harris Library Research Guides: Legal Research: Finding Cases, Legislation, and other Legal Material: Secondary Sources

Finding Articles from Law Journals

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Complete historical full text of all issues of peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of humanities and social science fields. Articles are typically more than 5 years old. Video Tutorial

Legal database that provides online access to U.S. federal and state law sources including secondary material like legal encyclopedias, dictionaries, and law reviews and journals. (NOTE: Access limited to current LSC paralegal students).

Legal Reference & Overviews

American Jurisprudence 2d
Call Number: online via Westlaw
Topical encyclopedia covering all fields of American law. It collects, examines, and summarizes the broad principles of American law and provides leads to supporting cases, related annotations, forms, proofs, and trial techniques.
Texas Jurisprudence 3d
Call Number: online via Westlaw
Texas legal encyclopedia. Provides a comprehensive A-to-Z statement of Texas law. Includes an analytical treatment of all law established in Texas and federal courts, as well as by acts of the legislature.
Black's Law Dictionary 11th Edition by Bryan A. Garner (Editor)
Call Number: Legal Reference, KF156 .B53
ISBN: 9781539229759
Publication Date: 2019
Legal Dictionary, provides definitions for legal terms, abbreviations and acronyms

PLEASE NOTE: The print series available in the Library are no longer being updated and are for Teaching Purposes Only. For the latest information, see Westlaw.

Highlighted Journals

American Bar Association (ABA) Journal
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A magazine for lawyers published by the American Bar Association. Articles on substantive law, practice tips and lifestyle for the practicing lawyer.
Facts and Findings
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Aims to provide educational articles on work related subjects and challenges to paralegals.
GPSolo
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Publishes articles on topics of interest for general practice, solo, and small firm practitioners, such as practice management, professional responsibility, and quality of life.
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
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Original articles, research articles, practitioner essays, comment and reviews on all aspects of criminal law and criminology.
National Paralegal Reporter
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Covers career issues, time management, how to balance work and life and includes contributions about areas of legal practice expertise including military paralegals.
Texas Bar Journal
Publication of record of the Supreme Court of Texas, a scholarly legal journal, and the association magazine for the State Bar of Texas. Free to access online.

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Westlaw

Only currently registered Lone Star paralegal students can access Westlaw. Current paralegal students will receive an email to their MyLoneStar student email from Thomson Reuters with details on how to activate their personal account. For problems with this, please contact the Paralegal department.

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