"Missouri Legal Research is designed to teach legal research skills to law students, paralegals, and undergraduate students researching the law generally and Missouri law in particular. While focusing on the process of learning and conducting legal research, the book also serves as a reference book on Missouri legal research and is therefore useful to practitioners and those already knowledgeable about legal research. The fifth edition focuses on finding and using Missouri sources of law (statutes, cases, administrative rules and regulations, and Missouri legislative history) and exposes the reader to those sources in both free access and fee-based online databases like Westlaw Edge and Lexis+ and in print media. This book provides guidelines for how to make judgments about which medium to access and when to access it. Complex ideas and research processes are presented in a straightforward, accessible manner. Outlines of the research process and short excerpts from Missouri and federal resources make the book easy to use. New to this edition is an extensive chapter on the appropriate use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in legal research, an explanation of the ethical responsibilities of lawyers using AI to conduct legal research, and a step-by-step explanation of how to use and evaluate generative AI resources"-- Provided by publisher.