Secondary Sources can be incredibly helpful in legal research. These sources are typically used to help you, the researcher, with interpretation or analysis of primary sources. Secondary sources include things like legal dictionaries, law reviews, treatises, and restatements.  If you …

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The Ohio Board of Professional Conduct recently issued four advisory opinions addressing various topics related to the application of ethics rules. Advisory Opinion 2022-08 addressed the question of whether a judge may attend a training course regarding speed detection devices …

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Each year there are about one thousand amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. These briefs seek to communicate information to the justices on how they should decide a given case. Usually the court receives many more amicus briefs …

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