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When faced with a request for a form, HCLL staff members often first turn to the encyclopedic, multi-volume form sets in the collection.
West’s Legal
Forms, Am Jur Legal
Forms, Rabkin’s and Johnson’s Current Legal
Forms, and Nichols’ Cyclopedia of Legal Forms are comprehensive form sets, each offering a different focus, a different indexing approach, and different forms for similar topics.
But the library also has a rich and varied collection of smaller form titles. Some of these titles are in more than one volume and contain mostly forms, but, unlike the general sets, focus on one subject. Some representative subject-oriented form sets:
Business Organizations
Advising Small Businesses: Forms
Fletcher Corporation Forms Annotated
Commercial
Banking and Lending Institution Forms
Structuring and Drafting Commercial Loan Agreements
Construction
Construction Industry Formbook
Design-Build Contracting Formbook
Criminal
Complete Manual of Criminal Forms
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry Contracts
Lindey on Entertainment Publishing and the Arts
Intellectual Property
Patent Law Practice Forms
Trademark Law Practice Forms
Real Estate
Commercial Real Estate Forms
Modern Real Estate and Mortgage Forms
Still another resource for forms are the classic legal treatises. Bogert’s
Law of
Trusts, Page on the Law of
Wills, Couch on Insurance 3d, and
Williston on Contracts all have accompanying separate forms volumes with indexes.
There are also many single volume treatises that include forms specific to their subjects. The American Bar Association has issued several narrowly focused monographs with excellent forms.
Complying with
FIRPTA: A Manual of Forms, Forms Under Revised Article
9; and Internet Forms and Commentary: A Practitioner’s Guide to E-Commerce Contracts and the World Wide Web are just a few examples of recent ABA titles with forms.
Other publishers also recognize the value of including forms in their specialty monographs: from Aspen Publishing
Settlement Agreements in Commercial Disputes and
Drafting License
Agreements; from Matthew Bender Commercial and Consumer
Warranties; from West Group Computer Software
Agreements, Securities Litigation Forms and
Analysis, and the Uniform Commercial Code Transaction
Guide; from Business Laws Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Web Site
Agreements; and from Law Journal Press Franchising Realities and
Remedies. Some of these forms are also available in electronic format.
(See
a list of all titles with accompanying disks or CDs)
The number of resources containing legal forms may at times seem finding the title with just the form you need overwhelming. But the HCLL catalog is a great place to start. A subject search for
FORMS will retrieve a list of entries further subdivided by subject or jurisdiction or both. And, as always, reference librarians are available to help you with your form research.
An upcoming HCLL Alert will feature pleading and litigation forms in the collection.
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