The reference collection includes sources for finding case decisions, as well as code and statute information for both the federal and state levels of government.

If you wish to find check out books in our library collection, use the Library Catalog and type is subject words:

Legal Assistants--United States.

Legal Assistants--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Legal Research--United States

In the alternative, you can browse the shelves in the Library.  Generally, books aimed at paralegals are located on our 2nd floor, at call numbers KF320

Reference

The following titles are up-to-date

• Black's Law Dictionary (Reference KF 156 B53)

• The Bluebook: uniform system of citation ( Reference KF 245 U55 )

• California Jurisprudence (Ref KFC 80 C34)

• California Jury Instruction (BAJI)

• West's Advanced Legislative services

• West's Annotated California Reporters

• West's' Annotated Codes

• Rules of Court - Local San Diego Courts

• West's California Digests

• Wests Encyclopedia of Law

• Witkin's Summary of California Law

• Wests Legal Forms  2d ed. (West, 1981- ). A somewhat business-oriented set covering: business organizations; domestic relations; debtor and creditor relations; commercial transactions; estate planning; real estate transactions; employment, agency, and service agreements; patents, trademarks, and copyrights; and specialized formsCovers the Supreme Court, the courts of appeal, the district courts (by Rule), bankruptcy, and admiralty. Includes forms geared to specific claims and actions)

The following titles are not up-to-date

• Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS)
• U.S.C.A. (stopped subscription as of 1991)
• U.S.C.A.A.N.(stopped subscription as of 1991)
• ALR Digest 3rd and 4th Federal
• ALR Quick Index
• Federal Practice Digest
• Federal Reporter
• Federal Supplement
• Hornbooks: Prosser and Keaton, Torts, 5th edition (1984)
• Hornbook: Clark, Domestic Relations (1988)
• Hornbook: Cunningham, Property (1981)
• Hornbook: Boyer, Survey of Property (1981)
• Hornbook: Bogert, Trusts (1987)
• Hornbook: Atkinson, Wills, 2d edition (1953)
• Hornbook: Nowak, Constitutional Law (1986)
• Hornbook: Friedenthal, Civil Procedure (1985)
• Hornbook: LaFave, Criminal Law (1986)
• Hornbook: LaFave, Criminal Procedure (1985)
• Hornbook: White, Uniform Commercial Code (1988)
• Hornbook: Reuschlein, Agency and Partnership (1990)
• Hornbook: Hein, Corporation (1983)

• Shepard's Case Citations and Statute Citations