Please note that this edition is now out of print and has been replaced by the 14th edition, also available through MyiLibrary ... For those determined to conquer a real or virtual law library, here's the book to check out. Comprehensive and user-friendly, it explains how to: [ understand and use all the basic tools of legal research and practice -- legal encyclopedias, case digests, Shepard's Citations and treatises[ decode statutes, regulations and cases[ organize research results into a memorandum of law [ practice with review questions, library exercises and hypothetical research problems.