workers’ compensation resources at the anchorage law library catherine lemann january 2008...

Workers’ Compensation Resources at the Anchorage

Law Library

Catherine LemannJanuary 2008

clemann@courts.state.ak.us

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Library Hours

Monday – Thursday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Sunday noon – 5:00 p.m.

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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

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What are your research needs?

What are the biggest challenges in workers comp 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?

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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

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Finding Aids

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

titles arranged by subject matter Workers’ Compensation Good for cost saving tips

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Alaska Resources

Legislative history 1988 Act AK workers compensation board

Superior Court decisions 1983-1992

AK Workmen’s compensation board decisions and orders 1989 – present No paper index

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Alaska Division of Workers’ Compensation

www.labor.state.ak.us/wc/legaldir.htm

Bulletins, forms Employee/employer information BAD links: statutes (old version),

admin code (wrong place)

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Alaska Division of Workers’ Compensation

Workers compensation board decisions & orders: Searchable/browsable (clunky)

Workers compensation appeals commission decisions: www.labor.state.ak.us/WCcomm/home.htm - not searchable

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Treatises – Workers’ Comp Larson, The Law of Workmen’s

Compensation The Law of Maritime Personal Injuries,

5th ed. Workers’ Compensation in a Nutshell Guides to the Evaluation of

Permanent Impairment, 5th ed. (6th expected soon)

Understanding the AMA Guides in Workers’ Compensation, 3rd ed.

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HeinOnline

Law journals – 1,100+ Coverage often begins with volume

1 CFR, Federal Register, Statutes at

Large Only available in the library But, we can email law review

articles

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FREE Westlaw at the Library

All State/Federal cases & statutes USCA, USCCAN ALR 2nd – 6th, Journals and Law

Reviews Am.Jur., Forms, Proof of Facts, Trials Keycite AK workers compensation board

decisions: AKWC-ADMIN

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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

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Casemaker

Alaska Caselaw 348 P.2d (1960) – current With reporter page numbers

Attorney General Opinions From 1995

Alaska Law Review Volume 14 – current

No Alaska Administrative decisions

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Casemaker

Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Seward, Kenai Borough Codes

Statutes Court rules Citator? Identifies cases, you

analyze them

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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

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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

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Free PACER access

All law library locations Two year trial project

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Need help? Call the library reference desk:

(907) 264-0585 or (888) 282-2082 Email: library@courts.state.ak.us Reference librarians can walk you through

searching or finding a website to help Interlibrary loan 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