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About our resources

This guide is designed to help you find resources of interest to paralegals. Our collection contains law and legal resources, especially for the federal and Illinois court systems. Highlights of our collection include:

Location

Law resources can be found in Reference and General Collections and begin with "K" call numbers.

K
Law
KF
Law of the United States
KFI
Law of Illinois

FAQs

The easiest way to access Black's Law Dictionary is through the legal database, Westlaw.

Follow these steps:

  • Go to Westlaw
  • Click on "Secondary Sources"

  • Click on "Black's Law Dictionary"

  • Start your search.

No, but we do offer Westlaw for legal research.  

Form books are available in the legal database, Westlaw. We have access to:

  1. Illinois Forms Legal & Business
  2. Nichols Illinois Civil Practice with Forms
  3. Personal Injury Forms: Illinois

Follow these steps to access them:

  1. Access Westlaw
  2. Click on "Secondary Sources"
  3. Click on "Illinois"
  4. Choose the form book you want to search.
     

We have 3 available online.

  1. DCBA Brief: Available online on the DuPage County Bar Association website.
  2. Facts & Findings: Available online in the database, Associates Programs Source Plus.
  3. National Paralegal Reporter: Available online in the database, Associates Programs Source Plus.

The North Eastern Reporter is a regional reporter for Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New York & Ohio.

Common legal abbreviations found for this reporter include:

N.E.
N.E.2d 
N.E.3d

The COD Library does not have this title in print in reference, but users can access the content using Westlaw.

 

 

No.

Some public libraries provide access to public records through Record Information Services. This database compiles public information from DuPage and surrounding counties and includes records for Misdemeanors, DUI's, Divorce, Felony, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies and others.

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  • Last Updated: Oct 28, 2024 3:44 PM
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