Employment Law Resources at the Anchorage Law Library

Catherine LemannNovember 2007

clemann@courts.state.ak.us

Library Hours

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Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday noon – 5:00 p.m.

Contact us

Call the Reference Desk: 907-264-0585

Email us: library@courts.state.ak.us

Fax a request: 907-264-0733 NEW Toll-Free Number for Alaska

callers: (888) 282-2082

What are your research needs?

What are the biggest challenges in employment law today?

Do you use a current awareness service?

How do you research issues? What tools and resources do you

use? What tools and resources would you

like to see in the library?

Resources in the Law Library

Things you still can’t get online – Books!

Treatises and Law Reviews can be checked out by Bar members

We can mail them to you if you’re not in Anchorage

Finding Aids

Specialized Legal Research – Hazleton Federal Labor and Employment Law –

Todd Identifies sources of statutes,

legislative history, research tips, key research tools, and common research questions on various topics

Finding Aids

Legal Information Buyer’s Guide and Reference Manual- Svengalis Descriptions and pricing for legal

titles arranged by subject matter

Treatises

BNA Labor Relations Reporter Wage & hour cases Labor arbitration reports Individual employment rights cases

Treatises CCH

Labor arbitration awards NLRB decisions Labor Cases Labor Law Reporter Employment practices decisions

Not all is current

Treatises

Individual Employee rights in a Nutshell

Employee benefit plans in a Nutshell

Workers’ compensation and employee protection in a Nutshell

Treatises

Employment Discrimination Lindemann & Grossman, 4th ed. 2007 Pattern Discovery, Danner Larson, Matthew Bender set

Treatises

Employee Dismissal Law & Practice, 5th ed. Perritt, 2005 (also 3rd & 4th eds)

Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook, Perritt, 2003

Topics?

Age Discrimination ? Age Discrimination, 2nd ed.

Whistleblowing Title VII

? Representing Plaintiffs in Title VII actions, 3rd ed.

Alaska Administrative Material

Alaska State Commission for Human Rights decisions

Alaska Labor Relations Agency orders and decisions

AKOSH standards (old)

Law Journals

Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law

Labor & Employment Law (ABA) The Labor Lawyer Monthly Labor Review

HeinOnline

Over 1,000 full text journals Coverage often begins with volume

1 CFR, Federal Register, Statutes at

Large Only available in the library

FREE Westlaw at the Library All State/Federal cases & statutes Alaska Labor & Employment Cases No administrative decisions USCA, USCCAN ALR 2nd – 5th

Am.Jur., Forms, Proof of Facts and Trials Journals and Law Reviews Key Cite

Alaska Case Law Database http://government.westlaw.com/akcases Alaska Supreme Court and Court of

Appeals All published opinions back to 1960 Unpublished decisions (MOJs) back

to 1991, with older decisions being added

No headnotes, keyciting, or page numbers

Alaska Case Law Database Search by

Case name Attorney Pacific Reporter citation or WL citation Decision date Judge name Opinion type Docket number Word

Alaska Case Law Database Word searchAND, OR, BUT NOT

Truncation ! trust! will find trust and trustee disab! will find disabled and disability

Search by phrase – use quotes “irrevocable trust”

Use the singular form – it will automatically look for plurals

Alaska Case Law Database Once you’re in a case, can use

Control-F to find specific search terms

Space = OR so remember to type AND if you are looking for both terms in a case

Example: Sex! AND discriminat! Sex age AND discriminat!

Casemaker

New Bar Association benefit Alaska Caselaw 348 P.2d (1960) –

current With page numbers

Attorney General Opinions From 1995

Alaska Law Review Volume 14 - current

Casemaker

Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Seward, Kenai Borough Codes

Statutes – no currency indication Court rules – no currency

indication No employment specific resources Citator? Limited usefulness

Casemaker – Federal U.S. Supreme Court 1893 - Current

U.S. Circuit Opinions 1 F.3d - current

U.S. District Courts (F.Supp.2d) F.Supp.2d Vol. 401 - current adv. sheet

U.S. Bankruptcy Opinions Begin: Vol. 334 B.R. (2005)

U.S. CodeTitles 1-41, 46 are complete through 01/02/2006Titles 42-45, 47-50 are complete through 01/03/2005Title 11 USC Bankruptcy Reform Act Contains all changes made by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005

Public Laws Includes laws passed by the 2005-2006 109th Congress and 2007 110th Congress to date

Code of Federal RegulationsTitles 1-16 complete through 1/1/2007Titles 17-27 complete through 4/1/2007Title 28-31 complete through 7/1/2007Titles 32-41 complete through 7/1/2006Titles 42-50 complete through 10/1/2006

U.S. Constitution

Federal Court Rules

Casemaker

Basic search is natural language Advanced Search

Fields: Citation, Docket Number, Attorney, Judge, Date

Word Form – exact , wildcard * Proximity – word, sentence,

document, within 500 or 1000 characters

Need help? Call the library reference desk if you have

questions: (907) 264-0585 or (888) 282-2082

Reference librarians can walk you through searching or finding a website to help

We have thousands of forms available Catalog is on-line: http://

www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm You can check out treatises for 3 days We will mail them to you if you live outside

Anchorage