Table of Contents
Pt. I. Background: understanding your tools. Before you start: sources of the law -- About citations -- Gathering and analyzing your facts, and identifying and organizing the legal issues -- pt. II. Doing legal research. Step one: finding the law -- Step two: reading the law -- Step three: updating the law -- How to take effective notes -- When to stop -- pt. III. Appendices. Computerized legal research -- Other research sources -- Overview of civil procedure -- Case headnotes and the digesting system -- Briefing a case: Brown v. Board of Education and sample brief -- Answers to Shepardizing exercises -- Alphabetical listing of case digest topics (West Publishing Company) -- Subject matter listing of case digest topics (West Publishing Company) -- Titles in the United States Code -- Titles in the Code of Federal Regulations -- Researching legislative history -- Definitions of terms frequently encountered in legal research -- Translations of foreign words and maxims frequently encountered in legal research.