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Starting Points for the Legal Researcher
- Find/SVP Legal Research
Group
The Legal Research Group at FIND/SVP provides lawyers and business executives direct
access to a team of expert researchers, lawyers and law librarians who in turn use over 5000
databases, traditional law libraries and other materials to respond to your requests.
- The Internet Advisory
Group
The Internet Advisory Group (IAG) specializes in explaining how you can use the Internet at
work. IAG is managed by Barbara Ferrara.
- United States Federal Courts
The U.S. Federal Courts Home Page is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S.
Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts. The purpose of the site is to serve as a clearinghouse
for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
- National Center for State Courts
The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) is an independent, nonprofit organization
dedicated to the improvement of justice. It provides assistance, information, and support to
the state courts.
- Emory Law Library
An on-line law library, sponsored by Emory Law School. It has recently added searchable
databases for 4th, 6th and 11th Circuit Federal cases on-line, which can be found in
hyper-links at the Law Library Home Page.
- Legal Information Institute
The Grand-Daddy of legal resources on the Internet, this server, sponsored by Cornell Law
School, integrates both the Gopher-based and World Wide Web-based offerings of the
Institute. There are links to recent Supreme Court decisions, the full U.S. Code, the Cornell
Law Review, Menus containing documents and sources by legal topic, and hundreds of sites
and other interesting legal resources.
- U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law
Library
This on-line law library was developed by the House Information Systems (H.I.S.) as part of
a demonstration project for the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the U.S. House of
Representatives and the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of
Representatives. The directories contain over 1,600 links to the law resources of the InterNet.
Full text federal and state laws, Treaties and International law in full-text, are some of the
materials available.
- United States Code
A full-text, searchable, version of the United States Code, generated with the Government
Printing Office's CDROM.
- World Wide Web Virtual
Library - Law
Topical organization of legal documents and resources, containing hundreds of sources,
alphabetically listed.
- 'LECTRIC Law Library
A virtual law library, complete with Rotunda, Reading Rooms, wacky characters, and a
multitude of useful legal resources. There is a reference room, a legal professional's lounge,
topical listings, periodicals reading room, a book store, and a room for lay people.
- The Seamless Website
The first commercial website for lawyers and laypeople. It contains the Chambers, which
contains introductory news and messages, the Commons, which contains original articles and
writings on law-related businesses, the Shingle, which contains the homepage s of lawyers and
law-related businesses, and the Cross-Roads, which contains links to other law-related
sites.
- College Hill Legal Web Site
College Hill Internet Consultants has established the new Legal Web Site Directory.
The Directory includes a comprehensive list of Law Firm Web Sites, Services for Lawyers
on the Web, and Articles of interest to Lawyers.
- Thomas - Legislative Information
A service of the U.S. Congress, through its library, containing the full text of pending and
passed legislation, the full text of the Congressional Record, Hot legislation, a link to the
House of Representatives Gopher, the C-Span Gopher, the U.S. House of Representatives
Audit, and other Government listings and links.
- The American Bar Association
The American Bar Association is on the Web with a vast amount of information and
resources for the legal professional. Included on this site is the Legal Technology Resource
Center.
Statutes and Cases
General Law-Related Information
Government
Lawyers and Law Firms
Specialized Information
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