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On-line Sites Offering Free Legal Research
Tools
ADI’s Top Picks For the California Appellate Practitioner
• FindLaw:
The Findlaw site provides links to a wide assortment of legal
resources. However, the reason this site makes the top of
ADI’s list is the vast amount of free legal research
offered and the ease of use of the site’s search features.
At Findlaw, visitors can also set up a personalized homepage,
subscribe to free legal news and case law updates, as well
as establish a free E-mail account: yourname@justice.com.
• Jurist:
The Legal Education Network: Great site!! The site is run
by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The site is
geared towards law professors, students and lawyers. At the
site you can search case law, law review articles, post articles,
read book reviews on legal publications, links to on-line
legal courses, join discussion groups, listen to lectures,
receive free weekly e-mail updates & much more!
• LawRunner:
A site run by the Internet Legal Research Group. The site
uses the Google search engine to search through law related
sites. LawRunner can be used to limit searches to a particular
jurisdiction or to Web sites with a particular domain suffix.
Other Good Legal Research Sites
• American
Law Source Online: ALSO is offered
by LawSource.com and the site provides “source links”
with collections of links pointing to law sources (cases,
statutes, etc.), followed by commentary on the law (law reviews,
other commentary, books), and then practice aids (e.g., court
information, official forms, other resources).
• eLawCentral.com:
eLawCentral claims to be a “one-stop destination for
wired legal professionals.” The site offers relevant,
user-friendly resources for legal professionals and is organized
for easy reference and use. As a benefit of signing up for
the site’s free membership, users can create a customizable
homepage, access custom links just for their practice area,
and add your own custom links.
• EZ
Law Locator: a no frills site offering quick
access to cases and legal information Web site.
• Hieros
Gamos: A “mega” legal site. This
link takes visitors to the Criminal Law speciality area of
the site where you can easily perform free legal research.
However, Hieros Gamos offers information on everything related
to the practice of law. From passing the bar to setting up
your own law office, H.G. has resources for you to review.
• Law.com:
This is primarily a news and information site with a vast
amount of legal resources. A new feature is their “Blog”
collection. Law.com site offers recent decision summaries
from local, state, and federal courts. The site also offers
seminar information, a legal newswire, and a good source of
law related links. A drawback of this site, is that the site
is very slow to load.
• LawGuru:
LawGuru provides links to a wide array of legal resources.
Unfortunately, the “free” legal search tool only
allows you to access the same information available on the
California Court’s Web site (www.courtinfo.ca.gov)
For a monthly subscription, users can do more extensive legal
research.
• LawyerExpress:
The site was designed to save you time and they present information
in a clear, easy to use format. The site is broken into four
broad resource areas: news, research, reference, and leisure.
LawyerExpress also offers free membership which gets you access
to peer-selected & reviewed content, breaking news, an
integrated meta search engine, and access to their 'Great
Sites' Archive. Another great membership benefit is practice
area specific material, including criminal law, and the option
to customize the site to remove links or add your own favorites
to easily create a page of links for reference throughout
your day. Wireless access available.
• Legal
Information Institute: Cornell University School
of Law's Web site provides a large collection of domestic
and international resources. The LII collection of state legal
materials gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources
of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations
for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories
and affiliated jurisdictions.
• LexisOne:
This site is provided by Lexis/Nexis for sole practitioners
and small firms. It provides free case law research of state
and federal opinions issued within the last five years and
U.S. Supreme Court opinions since 1790. Search by key word,
state or citation. If you need to research cases older than
five years, you can access the entire Lexis/Nexis library
service by paying a daily, weekly, or monthly fee. The site
also offers access to judicial council forms and several research
guides. Note: although there is a "login" feature
- you are not required to log in or register to perform the
free legal research.
• Yahoo
Law: A subdivision of the Yahoo Web site is Law
Resources From Yahoo. This site provides access to many different
legal areas including: law journals, court opinions, and law
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