Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constitutions, statutes, administrative law, and court rules -- Case law-research -- Secondary authority and other research sources-encyclopedias, treatises, American law reports, digests, shephard's -- Secondary authority- periodicals, restatements, uniform laws, dictionaries, legislative history and other secondary authorities -- Internet and computer research -- Commercial Internet research -- The research process for effective legal research -- Issue identification-spotting the issue -- Case law analysis-is a case on point? -- Legal citation.