Elder Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

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Elder Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

• Janai Powell Lane, JD, MLIS
• February 2006
• jplane_at_courts.state.ak.us
• 264-0588

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Resources in the library

• Print Materials
• Books Law Reviews can be checked out
• We get BNA Tax Management Portfolios
• Representing the elderly or disabled client
  forms and checklists with commentary
• Advising the elderly or disabled client legal,
  health care, financial, and estate planning
• Elderlaw, advocacy for the aging
• Uniform Laws Annotated
• Restatements
• What other resources do you wish we had?

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Electronic Resources

• BNA Tax Management Portfolios
• http//library.bnatax.com/
• Available at library

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Westlaw at the Law Library

• Free
• All states and all federal statutes
• All states and all federal case law
• Keyciting update the statutes or cases
• Am.Jur. Legal Forms
• Law Review articles

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Heinonline at Library

• Heinonline is an online database available in the
  law library
• Includes participation by over 1100 journals
  usually back to volume 1
• Federal Register back to 1936
• CFRs back to 1938
• Compilation of Sections Affected 1949-2000

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Resources On-Line

• Federal Resources
• http//Firstgov.gov
• Links to agencies
• Links to U.S. Code
• Links to CFR
• www.findlaw.com
• Disability Law Center
• http//www.dlcak.org/

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State Resources On-line

• Links to all state legal resources at court
  website http//www.state.ak.us/courts
• Includes links to state sites for
• Alaska statutes
• http//www.legis.state.ak.us/folhome.htm
• Alaska administrative code
• http//www.legis.state.ak.us/cgi-bin/folioisa.dll/
  aac?
• Alaska court rules
• http//www.state.ak.us/courts/rules.htm

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New case law database

• http//government.westlaw.com/akcases
• Alaska Supreme Court and Ct of Appeals
• All published and most unpublished decisions back
  to 1960
• No headnotes or keyciting
• Search by case name, attorney, date, and terms
• AND, OR, BUT NOT
• Truncation ! E.g., negl!
• quotations are available e.g., adverse
  possession

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Case law Database Searching

• No locate but can use Control F to find terms
  within a case
• Space OR so remember to type AND
• Search example environmental impact statement
  and neighborhood
• Search by case name instructions are incorrect.
  Need to type in one name or both names with And
  in between