Texas Legal Research: General Resources

• Texas Litigation Guide & Forms
• Texas Transaction Guide & Forms
• Texas Jurisprudence: encyclopedia containing over 400 separate titles on a broad range of legal topics

•      Handbook on Texas Discovery Practice
•      Texas Jurisprudence: encyclopedia containing over 400 separate titles on a broad range of legal topics
•      Texas Practice Series: “black letter” law

•      Texas Form Finder
•      Texas Forms Legal & Business (11 areas of law)
•      Texas Jurisprudence Pleading & Practice Forms
•      Texas Legal Practice Forms
•      Texas Practice Guides: practice & procedure instruction through step-by-step analysis forms, checklists, and tips; contains citations to leading & most recent case law
•      Westlaw eforms: Texas State & Federal Courts & Agencies
•      West’s Texas Forms

There are practice treatises available on FastCase through the Loislaw Libraries. In addition to topical libraries such as Bankruptcy, Family Law, and Real Estate Law, there are more general resources including:

• General Litigation Library: discovery, judgment enforcement, jury selection, motion practice, witness preparation, etc.
• Law Practice Resources Library: lawyer mobility, memos, The Law of Lawyering, etc.

• Legal Information Reference Center: legal forms searchable by state or area of law
• Texas Reference Center: law journals, newspapers, statistics, etc.

The Greenbook: Texas Rules of Form is a citation guide to complement The Bluebook for citation questions that are unique to Texas. At the Chickasaw Nation Law Library, The Greenbook is located in the general collection. The Thirteenth Edition is the most current edition.