Louisiana Law Review

Many components enter into the successful practice of law, not the least of which is a knowledge of legal bibliography and research. Yet despite its importance, the average practitioner often has only a rudimentary understanding of the fundamentals of legal research, based perhaps on a dim recollection of a law school legal bibliography course plus haphazard know-how ac-quired through sometimes hit-and-miss use of the books in his library. Indeed, he may not be aware of the full legal resources available for his own state. This can be attributed in part to the fact that the standard texts on legal bibliography, as employed in most schools, naturally tend to emphasize nationally-used law books. Although these texts are invaluable for finding general law or for practice in the federal courts or those of other states, still they do not and cannot effectively acquaint the student (or attorney) with what he must know to investigate adequately