Legal Information and Legal Advice
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- Legal advice is interpreting what statutes and case law mean or how it applies to a specific set of facts
Legal Advice Questions
- How do I find out what case law applies to a situation?
- How do I interpret case law relevant to a legal situation?
Examples of Legal Information
- Reading the legal definition of words. E.g.: Community property actions are civil claims that divide the property obtained during a marriage between divorcing spouses.
- Identifying procedural definitions such as who the people are in court and what steps take place. E.g.: A plaintiff is the party who files the complaint or
petition. A defendant is the party against whom a complaint is made. There are three ways to respond to a complaint: file an answer, file a demur, or do nothing.
- Showing persons how to find legislation, court rules, and cases as well as other online and print resources. E.g.: California Forms of Pleading and Practice provides templates to help litigate civil cases. Digests identify cases you can use.
- Directing patrons to online and print resources which contain court forms and instructions. E.g.: The California Judicial Council Forms are a collection of general use legal forms, which includes various pleadings and discovery forms. Form packets are found on the Court’s website.
Legal Info Questions
- What is the best resoruce on legal definitions of words?
- What is the best resource on how to understand procedures? (not what the actual procedures are, but how to derive procedures)
- How does a lay person find the laws and cases etc surrounding a specific situation or case?
- How does one identify the elements of a specific cases? This is just a shopping list for a given case type.
- How do you identify what type of case you have in front of you and how to you formulate a specific case?
- What is the most comprehensive source of legal forms and templates?
Automation
- How do you create a Legal Form Construction Set? Ie, what are all the critical elements of a form, template, or contract.