Listed below are the responses to my inquiry asking for recommendations for a dictionary of legal abbreviations that might be suitable for use by a law firm file department to create a controlled vocabulary of abbreviations for identifying and retrieving legal documents. Many thanks to those who responded:
...legal research textbooks--*Effective Legal Research* or *How to Find the Law* for example. Both have appendices that list abbreviations.
...Black's Law Dictionary, the *6th* ed. which has a Table of Abbreviations starting on p. 1623...The current edition of
Black's dropped this table.
...We use the Bluebook almost exclusively here, but I know that there was a short piece on legal abbreviations posted last summer on LLRX: http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference37.htm
The Cornell site has a nice tabular arrangement of citations based upon the 17th edition of the Bluebook, you can link to it from the Jenkins Law Library or go directly: http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
...There is a "World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations" by Kavass & Prince, published by Hein & Co.(3 vols) looseleaf!
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