Kern County Law Library - Virtual Branch

The Kern County Law Library has placed a computer station in the Cerro Coso LRC for general public use in the Library only.  It is not accessible from remote computers.  It is available during the regular hours of the LRC.

The available resources are as follows:

Westlaw:

California Codes	Supreme Court Reporter
California Court Rules	ALR 3rd, 4th, 5th, Federal
United States Codes	Rutter Group Practice Guides
Federal Cases	Codes and Cases for all 50 states
California Cases

HeinOnline.org

Legal Classics	World Trials
Law Journal Library	U.S. Congressional Docs
U.S. Supreme Court Library	Session Laws
Foreign & International Law Resources Database	Treaties and Agreements Library
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library

Lexis.com:

All of Shepard's and the ability to retrieve a document with the exact citation.  The document can be a case or Law Review article.

BNA Tax and Accounting Center:

Comprehensive, authoritative content of the BNATax Management Library and Accounting & Policy Practice Center, along with the rest of BNA's peerless tax and accounting resources, including the Tax Portfolios, Accounting Portfolios, Daily Tax Report, all news & commentary, and more is delivered in a completely integrated new platform.

Self-help books:

How to do your own divorce	How to adopt your step child
Neighbor vs. Neighbor	Fight your ticket
How to make a CA will	Guardianship book
Represent yourself in court	Conservator ship book
How to probate and estate	And many other titles...

Other books:

Black's Law Dictionary

California rules of court-State and Federal

Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations

Internet access for legal research: 

Sites that are used often are saved in Internet Explorer's "Favorites".  When doing your own research, using "Google.com" is recommended as a search engine.

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