Using the same legal issue you worked with in Assignment #1, please answer the following questions:

1. Legal Periodicals: Using MORRIS, select WILP (Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals) and search for periodical articles related to your problem.
1. List the search terms:
2. How many articles were found?
3. Why is it better to begin with word search rather than a subject search?
4. Why are none of the articles found going to be dated earlier than 1980?
5. If you wanted older articles, what index would you use?
6. If you wanted articles published before 1908, what index would you use?


2. Using MORRIS, select LRI (Legal Resources Index) and search for articles related to your problem, using the same search terms employed above.
1. How many articles were found?
2. If the results are different, why do you suppose this is?
3. Are the dates of coverage for LRI significantly different from the online version of WILP?


3. What index would you use for locating law-related articles from non-law journals?



4. What index would you use for locating articles from foreign (non-U.S.) legal periodicals?



5. Texts and treatises: Using MORRIS, search for books at the Lillian Goldman Library pertaining to your problem.
1. List your search terms and indicate whether this was a subject search or a word search.
2. How many records did your search retrieve?
3. How could you make your search more specific?


6. Using ORBIS, use the same search to find books from the Yale University libraries relevant to your problem.
1. How many records did your search retrieve?
2. What research tool would you need to use to find potentially relevant books published prior to 1977 from the collections of the University libraries?


7. Looseleaf services: What is a looseleaf service, and how might one be useful to a legal researcher?
1. How might you discover whether there is a potentially useful looseleaf service relevant to your research problem?
2. If there is a relevant looseleaf, name it.


8. Form books: If you needed to draft a will or a contract, name a general set of form books you might turn to for assistance.



9. If you needed to draft a pleading for use in federal court, name a set of form books that you might use.



10. Court rules: If you needed to locate the Federal District Court rules for the Northern District of Illinois (or any other Federal District Court), name a publication that includes these rules.