Patricia Ferraris O'Neill
Business Law
Information on remote access for the legal databases.
These web sites were found using Evaluative Web Sites like Librarian's Internet Index and Legal Research Workshops & Articles. *Denotes better web site
Databases:
General Law Metasites Top
*FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/ The best single starting point on the Web for doing legal research. Full text searchable database of all law reviews and journals on the Internet. Links to court decisions, government agencies, court forms, just about anything legal. Good law web meta site. Updated nigh
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Lawcrawler -http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ LawCrawler, helps you focus your search on legal issues on the Web. Nice search results for different topics. Good for finding specific sites and meta-sites.
*Cornell's Legal Information Institute Legal Information Institute (LII) - http://lii.law.cornell.edu/ Extensive materials on the law. Links to primary source materials such as laws and regulations by topic. Law About has overviews of more than 100 legal topics, with links to the laws and related Web resources; Constitutions & Codes has both state and federal; Court Opinions, available judicial opinion, federal and state.
Law Internet Law Library - http://www.lectlaw.com/inll/1.htm Contains links to over 7,500 law related resources in subjects such as U.S. federal laws, state and territorial laws, international laws, laws of all jurisdictions arranged by subject, attorney and legal professional directories, law school library catalogs and directories, and reviews of law books. The current US Code and Code of Federal Regulations can also be searched from the home page.
WashLaw WEB - http://www.washlaw.edu/ Besides case law, the this searchable site provides a variety of features for people interested in the law, including state and federal codes, international law, discussion groups, law journals, directories and much more including lawyer jokes.
Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org - Includes many legal resources by topic including international law and lawyers.
CataLaw http://www.catalaw.com - This resource provides an index to legal meta sites on those that focus on particular legal topics.
Meta-Index for US Legal Research - http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/ Links to most of the searchable legal indexes on the Web and many of the searchable US legal sources available. To make it easier many searches for case, statuary, and regulatory law can be performed directly from this site. From the Georgia State University College of Law.
Special Law Databases: Top
Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia - http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm This site has legal information in non-legal language in seventeen subject areas: small business; employment; patent, copyright & trademark; wills & estate planning; retirement; elder care; real estate; landlords & tenants; debt & credit; tax problems; consumer; marriage & living together; divorce; caring for children; courts & mediation; personal injury; and criminal law. In addition, there are annotated lists of recommended Internet resources related to each subject. Great content from Nolo Press, the major publisher of self-help law books and software.
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl Guide from the Law Library at New York University. Foreign database by jurisdiction.
Internet Legal Resource Guide - http://www.ilrg.com/ Designed as a subject-oriented index of over 4000 Web sites around the world (but with an emphasis on the United States), this site attempts to be a comprehensive source of information on law and the legal profession for the lay person as well as the professional. The legal forms section, mostly free and easily reproducible, is especially helpful as are the law school rankings and the law-related search engines. There are links to publications, tax sites, government law sources, and two lawyer locator services - one from West Publishing and the other from Martindale-Hubbell
Guide to Law Online- http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html An annotated guide to online sources of information worldwide on government and law. It includes links to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations. Prepared by the US Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN). See also their database of national laws from contributing countries around the world. The database consists of legal abstracts in English and some full texts of laws in the language of the contributing country. Currently covers 46 countries, with other countries being added on a continuing basis.
Forms:
Legal Forms Room ('lectric Law Library) -http://www.lectlaw.com//form.html Contains generic collections of legal forms, split into two overlapping categories - Business and Law Practice. The Business forms deal with things like Real Estate, Corporate, and Employment Matters, Wills, etc., while the Legal ones focus on Law Practice Management and Litigation Matters.
Legal ResearchTop
*The Virtual Chase - http://www.virtualchase.com/ Use links in the left column like Legal Research. TVC Alert Research News on right side is excellent for keeping up to date .Other helpful links from this site include the following links:
*Key Resources for Web Research - includes many sites for legal research.
Legal and Factual Research on the Internet gives research strategies for finding information on the Courts Click on Understanding the Federal Courts (PDF file need Adobe Acrobat to access,) Statutory Law , Legal Commentary, and Focusing on International or Foreign Law.
Information Quality: Includes a checklist for Determining the Value of Information Retrieved from Internet.
LLRX.com http://www.llrx.com Online legal research news. Five years worth of articles on legal research topics, including many International research guides. Archive is organized by topic.
Locating the Law - For basic information on legal research
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/locating.htm An entire book of 12 chapters for non law librarians on legal research. This 4th edition book is from the Southern California Association of Law Libraries. It contains a chapter on California law.
Lawguru.com-Legal Questions, Answers and Research-http://www.lawguru.com/ The highlight of this site run by a law firm is the Legal Research Page, which provides direct links to the search engines for more than 400 law-related sites. Examples of these sites include state court opinions, codes, legislation, with some federal and topical sites included. The Multiple search tool page give links to law search engines. Also includes more than 4,000 Questions and Answers on topics such as: Small Claims Court, Auto Accidents, Sexual Harassment, and Disability Discrimination.
Basic Legal Citation Cornell http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation.table.html
Maryland Law Web Sites:Top
*Maryland Legal Links http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/mdgen.html
Code of Maryland Agency Regulations (COMAR) http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/
Maryland Code compliments of Lexis-Nexis. Word searching of Code available.
Maryland Statues http://mlis.state.md.us/cgi-win/web_statutes.exe
Maryland State Courts http://www.courts.state.md.us/ Maryland courts, appellate opinions, court services, publications...
Maryland State Law Library http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/
People's Law Library of Maryland http://www.peoples-law.org/
A public legal information resource that is divide into topics and sub topics such as small business law, real estate law,estate planning and tax law.
Maryland General Assembly Home Page http://mlis.state.md.us/
Legal Resources for Maryland http://www.courts.state.md.us/legalsites.html Libraries Sailor, a project of Maryland Public Libraries, provides comprehensive links to a variety of subjects,including Maryland references to legal issues
State Information: Legislation, Agencies ,Regulations, Administrative Codes and Registers: Top
*ALSO!: American Law Sources Online http://www.lawsource.com/also State Legislation Search for U.S. state law resources, Canada & Mexico.
Full Text State Statutes & Legislation on the Internet http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm list of links
Locating a State Agency Web Site By State: (top)
*State And Local Government on the Web Lots of links on this page http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm or
Library of Congress State and Local Governments http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
GovEngine.com This directory consolidates links to official federal, state, and local government information sites for the United States, Guam, American Samoa, Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Browse by type of government--federal, state, or local--or by state.
Federal Sites Top
*Thomas - US Congress on the Internet - Legislative Resources at THOMAS http://thomas.loc.gov Federal Legislative History .The EASY way to compile a legislative history, bills before they become law.
FedLawhttp://www.firstgov.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf.shtml#Laws A guide to online Federal laws, rules, regulations and judicial decisions from the GSA.
Federal Agencies:
FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov FirstGov.gov, is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Includes a collection of topical and customer-focused links which connect to millions of web pages–from the federal government, local and tribal governments and to foreign nations around the world.
LSU Libraries' U.S. Federal Government Agencies Page http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html Same directory used by GPO Access. The directory is a partnership of Louisiana State University and the Federal Depository Library Program
Federal Regulations:
*Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.htmlSearchable C.F.R. latest regulations
Federal Register at GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html Follow the links to the online Federal Register. (everyday new legislation)
Judicial Information & Caselaw
United States Supreme Court
U.S. Courts Government site on the different courts: U.S. Supreme Court, Courts of Special Appeals, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts.
Supreme Court - FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Recent Supreme Court Decisions to cases from 1893. Volume 150 of the United States Reports to the most recent volumes.
Supreme Court - current & historic http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html Cases from 1990 to the present & selected historic Supreme Court decisions from the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. Archive of decisions by topic, author and party.
Supreme Court - Oral Arguments http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage Audio & multimedia files of recordings of selected Supreme Court oral arguments form Oyez Oyez Oyez: A Supreme Court WWW Resource
Federal Courts:
PACER Service Center http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov
Using GPO AccessTop
Search Systems: Public Record Locator http://www.searchsystems.net/ Find sources for free public records information on the web. A high percentage of this information is the invisible web.
GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Allows online search for full text information from over 70 databases, including the Federal budget, Congressional bills, the Congressional Record, Federal Register, GAO Reports, GILS records, Government Manual, Congressional calendars, Public Laws, Unified Agenda and the United States Code.
Federal Register search page at GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
Code of Federal Regulations National Archives and Records Administration http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
AssociationsTop
National Associations of Legal Assistants http://www.nala.org/ Professional association for legal assistants
American Association of Law Libraries http://www.aallnet.org
American Bar Association http://www.abanet.org
Law Periodicals & Reviews Top
LLRX.com http://www.llrx.com/index.htm It is a free Web journal dedicated to providing legal professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet legal research and technology-related issues.Includes court rules and encyclopedias.
Internet Legal Resource Guide http://www.ilrg.com/journals.html - Legal portal with law journals
*University of Southern California http://law.usc.edu/library/resources/journals/subject.cfm Brief descriptions and links to online law reviews
FindLaw http://lawschools.findlaw.com/journals - Includes Coalition of Online Law Journals and List of Journals by topic. Law review editors and legal academics throughout the world bring legal publications and information to the Internet.
Database of Law Journals & Reviews
Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html Searchable database of the current three months' worth of contents pages from over 750 law reviews and scholarly journals received by the Tarlton Law Library
Search Engine Strategies: Top
Google's Government Search http://www.google.com/unclesam
Google Advanced Search http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Searching of PDFs is extremely important to legal researchers. Use the pull down menu for File format to search PDFs
Also use the site searching capability in Advanced searching to search within sites without their own search engines.
List of some Search Engines list of popular search engines
Searching the Web Tips and techniques for searching the Web.
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