Legal Abbreviations

Robert Hudson at the Novalawcity blog identifies three good sites for finding legal abbreviations:

• The University of Washington Law Library provides an alphabetical listing which focuses on U.S Legal Abbreviations. URL: http://lib.law.washington.edu/pubs/acron.html
• Cardiff University in Wales provides a larger list and a search by title feature covering world legal abbreviations. URL: http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/
• Monash University in Australia also provides a comprehensive list of world legal abbreviations including U.S. cites. URL: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/legal-abbreviations/abb-a.html

I have primarily used Cardiff for my legal abbreviation needs, but I plan to take a look at the others Robert recommends.

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