***COURTESY OF TWOBEARS BOOKS*** The purpose of this book is to provide law students, attorneys and others doing legal research a simple step-by-step guide to the basic research processes. The book is not designed as a text book to give an in-depth explanation of the law and its sources. Rather, this guide should be used when the research processes are unfamiliar to the researcher either through inexperience or insecurity. To underscore the common patterns in legal research, as well as to simplify comprehension of each research process, checklists are located thoughout the text and are separately indexed to allow the reader instant access to particular procedures. Specific problems are also used to illustrate each process, enabling the reader to relate better to each step or to follow the process through by using the problem for actual research. Since legal issues are rarely so straightforward as to involve only one research process, some sample problems are used in more than one chapter to demonstrate the interrelationships amongst research procedures. An appendix provides additional practice problems, accompanied by a brief outline of the research sources. While commputer assisted legal research gains increased acceptance and will become a more common feature of day-to-day research, tasks are still more efficiently completed by traditional research methods. The focus of this book, therefore, remains the efficient use of the manual research processes. In this edition, however, there are brief "Computer Note" references meant to indicate those options separate from the checklists for manual research.