Chapter 2: Introduction to Legal Research Platforms

Click through a generic legal database — header tools, the search bar, jurisdiction and content filters, the browse tabs, then a results page — and learn what every part does, so you can find the same features on any platform.

Read a citation as a retrieval address, pull a known source by location alone, and build a live terms-and-connectors search over a sample library — watching results change against natural language.

Short scenarios for the mechanics: where to start in a database, how to change a search to narrow or broaden it, and what a citation does (and does not) need to retrieve a document.