Weathering the Stormy Economic Climate:
Strategies for Conducting Online Legal Research Using Free and Low Cost Sources
1.5 NY CLE Skills Credits
June 5, 2009
Strategies for Conducting Online Legal Research Using Free and Low Cost Sources
1.5 NY CLE Skills Credits
June 5, 2009
HANDOUT
Initiating Your Research:
Research Guides
- UCLA Online Legal Research: Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw
- Georgetown: Free and Low Cost Legal Research
- Cornell Law Library Online Sources
- Cornell Law Library Research Guides
Search Engines
- Cornell Law Library Legal Research Engine
Free Online Legal Sources:
- Justia
- AltLaw.org
- PreCydent
- Public Library of Law
- FindLaw
- LexisONE
- Cornell's Legal Information Institute
- Cornell Wex
Alternative Subscription Sources:
Government Sources:
- GovEngine
- Firstgov
- GPO Access
- FDsys (replacing GPO Access)
- PACER
- Thomas
- U.S. Code Classification Tables
- U.S.Courts.gov
- Library of Congress Guide to Law Online - US States and Territories
- State and Local Government on the Web
Foreign & International Sources:
- Legal Systems in the World Today
- Cornell Law Library - Foreign and International Law Guide
- International Research Tutorial
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) - Guide to Electronic Sources for International Law
Local & Municipal Law:
- The Seattle Public Library - Municipal Codes Online
- LexisNexis/Book Publishing Corporation
- American Legal Publishing Corporation
- Municipal Code Corporation
- General Code
Practice Materials:
- Court Rules Online
- WashLaw Forms
- LawyerExpress
- LexNotes Legal News
- HG.Org
- PACER
- LLRX
- PLOL Forms
- Martindale-Hubbell
- International Law Office
- Findlaw Forms
Finding People:
Ethics:
- American Legal Ethics Library
- ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
- Cornell Law Library - Legal Ethics: Selected Resources
Some Final Tips:
- In New York, Supreme Court Libraries provide free Lexis and limited Westlaw
- Jureeka - Firefox add-on
- Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask
- Basic Legal Citation
- Still can't find what you need? Pay per transaction by credit card using Westlaw. (Or simply go to your local law library for free.)
- For further reading: Lisa Smith-Butler, Cost Effective Legal Research Redux: How to Avoid Becoming the Accidental Tourist, Lost in Cyberspace, 9 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 293 (Spring 2008)