General, Legal Research Links

Legal Information Institute at Cornell

http://www.law.cornell.edu/  

Valuable web site that contains U.S. Federal legal materials to include the U.S. Code, Supreme Court decisions, the Code of Federal Regulations, state law by topic and material available from other Internet-accessible sites.

Citations to legal authority

http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/front.htm

Format for properly citing legal authority.

Washlaw WEB at Washburn University

http://washlaw.edu/

Contains a broad range of legal topics that link to an assortment of online legal information.

Meta-Index for Legal Research at Georgia State University College of Law

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

This site is different than the above-mentioned menu-type directories at Washburn and Indiana. The Meta-Index gathers search utilities from various web sites, enabling you to run searches in the full text of a number of online legal resources.

Law reviews, journals and periodicals

http://law.com/

This web site connects legal professionals to more national and regional legal publications online including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times.

FLETC Legal Division

http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/legal-division/

The web site of the Legal Division of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Subscribe to the The Federal Law Enforcement Informer, a compilation of briefs and legal articles useful to law enforcement officers.

American Bar Association

http://www.abanet.org/

The web site of the American Bar Association provides important information on membership, committees, publications, officers and events. It also serves as a central resource on the law for lawyers and consumers.

Hieros Gamos

http://www.hg.org/index.html

This web site lists a wide assortment of links to legal resources on the internet. It has an organization section divided into the following directories: world governments, legal associations, law study, law library, prominent law firms, practice areas, employment, publications, free listings, legal directories and other legal sites.

MegaLaw

http://www.megalaw.com/

MegaLaw.com is a collaboration between two attorneys and a software engineering web site design specialist.

National Conference of State Legislatures

http://www.ncsl.org/public/sitesleg.htm

This site contains information from the web sites of all 50 state Legislatures, the District of Columbia and the territories.  Specific web site material such as bills, constitutions, issue reports, statutes, etc. may be viewed from all states, a selected list of states or one state.

The National Institute of Justice

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/welcome.html

The National Institute of Justice is the research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is the only federal agency solely dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, and non-partisan, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice, particularly at the state and local levels.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service.

 http://www.ncjrs.org/

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy and program development worldwide.

AELE – Americans for Effective Law Enforcement

http://www.aele.org/

AELE is a research driven education organization that produces and disseminates police and public safety materials.

The Legal Officers Division of the International Association of Chiefs of Police

http://www.theiacp.org/

The Legal Officers Division of IACP is made up of municipal attorneys, prosecutors and private attorneys who concentrate in police legal issues.

Cybercrime

http://cybercrime.gov/

Contains the current manual on electronic search and seizure and current manual available on prosecuting intellectual property crimes. It also contains cases and policies on computer crime, intellectual property crime, cyberethics documents, and other cybercrime legal and policy issues.

Municipal Code

http://www.municode.com/ 

A common reference for local government attorneys looking for ordinance language.  This web site contains codes for more than 1,000 local governments in searchable online databases.

U.S. Courts

http://www.uscourts.gov/

The federal judiciary web page with links to all federal circuits, which is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

GPO Access

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

The web site of the U.S government printing office has a vast assortment of online federal materials.

USA.gov

http://www.usa.gov

U.S. Department of Justice

http://www.usdoj.gov/ 

Department of Justice homepage that accesses antitrust, civil, civil rights, criminal, environmental, immigration and other appellate briefs, case filings, DOJ publications and the U.S. Attorneys Manual.

Thomas

http://thomas.loc.gov/

Legislative information on the internet including roll call, committees, bill activity, and more from the Library of Congress.

Prosecutors Online

http://www.prosecutor.info

Find links to more than 1,500 websites of prosecutors, attorney generals, and U.S. attorneys as well as legal search engines and sites providing investigation aids.

Google Uncle Sam

http://www.googleunclesam.com/

If searching for government-only web sites a good place to begin is Google Uncle Sam, which restricts queries to .gov and .us domains. It also includes some .com domains that provide government information.

FindLaw

http://findlaw.com/

FindLaw, owned by West Group, combines a vast directory of sites, a law-oriented web search engine (LawCrawler), a full text library of case law, and a variety of communication forums, such as message boards, free individual web sites, and free e-mail. LawCrawler allows users to do simple Boolean searches in law related resources. FindLaw provides the most complete free database of U.S. Supreme Court opinions on the web, going back to 1906. Researchers can use FindLaw to do full-text searches of law reviews and journals that are available on the Internet.  Free newsletters are also available at the FindLaw site in almost any subject area.

Lexisone.com

http://www.lexisone.com/

A free (requires registration) service of LexisNexis, the online legal research service, includes free U.S. Supreme Court and selected federal and state court searching, forms, and other services. To use premium options such as Shepard’s, you may pay as you go.

Electronic Clipping Services

Both WestLaw and LexisNexis have electronic clipping services that allows you to follow the developments of topics of interest. Searches can be automatically updated daily, weekly, or monthly. Results may be viewed online or can be e-mailed to you.

Loislaw.com

http://www.loislaw.com/

Materials include state professional library and the national collection which are organized by case law, statutes and acts, administrative code/regulations, court rules, other libraries (attorney general opinions, ethics opinions, jury instructions) and Bar/CLE publications. Other services include LOIS LawWatch, which is an electronic clipping service for cases and statutes using your search terms and the Daily Opinion Service which is a clipping service for slip opinions by topic. Free trial subscription.

National Institute of Ethics

http://www.ethicsinstitute.com/

A non-profit organization promoting ethics and integrity. The Institute provides training that prevents unethical acts by law enforcement and corrections officers.

Institute for Law Enforcement Administration

http://www.theilea.org/

The Center for Law Enforcement Ethics was organized to focus attention on ethical issues that go to the heart of policing.

Legalethics.com

http://www.legalethics.com/

This site was created in 1995 to help lawyers understand the unique ethical issues the internet posed. It tracks state and local ethics rulings relating to the internet, and maintains a comprehensive collection of ethics-related links.

The Cornell Legal Information Institute’s American Legal Ethics Library

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics

The digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis.

U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Commission

http://www.eeoc.gov/

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov/

Employment Law Case Headlines

http://www.eeonews.com/

Counter-terrorism Training and Resources for Law Enforcement

http://www.counterterrorismtraining.gov/

This web site was formed to examine counter-terrorism tools available to law enforcement  and first responder communities. It serves as a single point of access to counter-terrorism training opportunities and related materials available from the federal government as well as private and non-profit resources.

Presentations

http://www.presentations.com/

Articles, columns, information on the very latest trends for presenters. Free magazine and a weekly e-newsletter of timely news for presenters.

Training Magazine

http://www.trainingmag.com/

Excellent resource for trainers and presenters.

Legal and Technology Articles and Resources

http://www.llrx.com/ 

A web site that contains law and technology resources for legal professionals. This site is updated regularly with articles and columns on legal research, technology and management. Contributors include law librarians, attorneys and legal technology consultants.

Lawsource.com

http://www.lawsource.com/also/

Lawsource.com is the home of American Law Sources On-Line which provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.

Internet Tools for Lawyers

http://www.netlawtools.com/

Internet Tools for Lawyers is a web site designed to help legal professionals use the internet.

LawGuru.com

http://lawguru.com/

This site combines legal research resources with online community resources, such as free home pages and law-related chat rooms.

American Lawyer Media’s law.com

http://law.com/

The web site connects legal professionals to more national and regional legal publications online including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Legal Times.  Anyone may register for the free newsletter which delivers top legal news electronically.

National Center for State Courts

http://www.ncsconline.org/

Links to state court web sites, which contain state Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions.