Contents:
Finding the law;
The federal and state court systems;
Statutory law;
Case law and judicial opinions;
The use of digests, annotated law reports, and words and phrases;
Encyclopedias, periodicals, treatises, and restatements;
Miscellaneous secondary authorities;
Legal citation form;
Updating and validating your research;
Special research issues;
The digital library : Lexis, Westlaw, and nonprint research sources;
E-research : legal research using the internet;
Overview of the research process;
Back to basics;
Strategies for effective writing;
Legal correspondence;
Legal memoranda;
Legal briefs;
Postwriting steps.