Most lawyers learned about legal research from law school professors, and most of those professors learned from Bob Berring, the granddaddy of legal research. When people say that Bob Berring wrote the book on legal research, they mean that he literally wrote the book on legal research. Two of them, actually: Finding the Law and the Legal Research Survival Manual. He also created the award-winning video series Legal Research for the 21st Century. In 2006, the American Association of Law Libraries named Professor Berring’s writing the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship of the past 50 years.
Bob Berring, Jr.
Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law