Includes index.

Contents: Law and sources of law -- Legal reasoning and analysis -- Secondary sources and finding tools -- The judicial branch and cases -- Primary sources: Constitutions, statutes, court rules and administrative law -- Citations -- Overview of the research process -- Computer - assisted legal research -- The internet in a nutshell -- Cyberlaw: Using the internet as a legal research tool -- Introduction to legal writing -- Transmittal letter and client opinion letter -- Writing contracts -- Pleadings -- Law office memo -- Memorandum of law -- Appellate brief -- Appendix A: Search and seizure -- Appendix B: Citation rules -- Appendix C: Rules for quotations and short form citations -- Appendix D: Mechanical errors -- Appendix E: Problems -- Appendix F: Web bibliography -- Appendix G: Inernet terminology -- Appendix H: Bibliography evaluative criteria web sites -- Appendix I: Legal research ''starting points'' -- Appendix J: Fedral law resources -- Appendix K: State and local resources -- Appendix L: International law resources -- Appendix M: Commercial legal information web sites -- Appendix N: Topical index of legal and government web sites -- Appendix O: Law - related internet discussion groups (lists).