United States
Legislation
Code of Federal Regulations
Rules made by federal agencies and executive departments.
Constitution, Statutes, Legislative Bills, Legislative Resolutions
List of titles, popular names, sections, full text search for the US Code from LII.
Constitutions, Statutes and Codes
US Constitutions, Statutes and Codes at Federal and State levels from Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute (LII).
Federal Register
The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organisations. It also contains executive orders and other presidential documents. Published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration.
Michie
A member of the LexisNexis Group, Michie provides selected statutes, codes and rules for California, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont.
Office of the Law Revision Counsel - United States Code
The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is in searchable format.
Federal Court Locator
Links to sites containing full text of federal and state materials.
Judicial opinions
Provides clear overview of decisions available electronically. Arranged hierachically covering US Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and State Courts.
State Court Directory
A directory which provides information regarding the availability of judicial opinions for each state.
Google Scholar provides Legal Opinions. Searching legal opinions and journals from the Scholar Preferences option provides access to full text legal opinions from US federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts and links to other cases and articles on Google Scholar that cite them.
Supreme Court Decisions
Acccess to the full-text of US Supreme court decisions is provided by a number of sites:
Official Supreme Court site launched in April 2000 has opinions from 1999 with limited access to earlier opinions via gpo access. There is also a guide on where to obtain offical and unoffical copies of decisions. Decisions are posted on the same day they are delivered. This site also has orders, court rules, case handling guides and background information about the court;
Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (Decisions since 1990);
Fedworld/FLITE (1937 to 1975) ;
FindLaw (Decisions since 1893) ;
FirstGov
FirstGov is an official United States government website. It offers searches of government documents and features a topic index, transactions and services for individuals and businesses, links to state and government organisations and a reference shelf.
Government Information Locator Service (GLIS)
A decentralised collection of agency-based information locators to assist in the identification and location of publicly available Federal information resources.
The Federal Web Locator
Compiled by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy as a single point of reference to federal government information on the World Wide Web.
Authentication of Documents for Use Abroad
This site deals with the authentication of documents for use in foreign countries. It includes links to various state authentication authorities in the US.
Thomas Library of Congress Server
Full text of US Bills and the Congressional Record.
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
Searchable database of documentation filed by companies with the United States SEC available by subscription.
Hoovers Online
Promoted as the ultimate source for company information, this site provides access to free company information in the form of "company capsules" which contain information on more than 12,000 public and private enterprises in the United States and around the world. Each capsule consists of basic company and financial information with selected Web links.
American Bar Association
ABA Information, the ABA Store, events; education and technology. Also contains significant links to US sites.
AttorneyFind
Ability to search by practice area and location.
LawInfo.com Attorney Directory
Ability to search by practice area and location.
LawyerFinder
Searchable by state and practice area.
Attorney directory from Matindale
Ability to search by name, firm, practice area and location.
Law Firms in Martindale Directory
American Law Sources On-line
Aims to provide a comprehensive, uniform and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge.
Gavel2Gavel
An internet legal resource locator which arranges (primarily US material) into categories such as Attorneys, Codes and Statutes, Courts and Opinions, and a Subject Index.
Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
Law by Country (US and ‘other’), search engines, law by subject, career information, US law schools/education etc, entertainment, journals, law firms & lawyers and reference materials.
Findlaw
A site which includes cases and codes (eg US Supreme Court decisions from 1893), material organised by subject, federal and state resources, law schools and firms and legal news and practice materials.
Internet Legal Resource Guide
An index of legal sites listing Law Journals, Law Schools, Professional Associations, Lawyers/Firms and US Research Tools.
LawGuru
This is a comprehensive website that provides free answers and legal advice from attorneys and allows free legal research to be conducted.
Law Library Resource Xchange
A web journal focused on a range of research and technology related issues for legal professionals.
Legal Information Institute : Cornell Law School
An important site providing links to wide variety of legal information.
The Meta-Index for US Legal Research
Includes links to most of the searchable legal sites in the US which provide access to legislation, caselaw and commentary.
University of Washington (Washlaw) Library
Highly rated site which pulls together all of the useful sites in the United States. Washburn University also hosts RefLaw ; The Virtual Law Library Reference Desk which assists practitioners in accessing Legal Reference Information on the Internet.
Public Library of Law
This site provides free online access to extensive primary sources of United States law. It includes all US Supreme Court opinions, federal circuit opinions from 1950 on and state supreme and appellate court cases from 1997 on.
Fee Fie Foe Firm
This is a search engine that allows you to search across law firm websites in the United States. It can be used to find anything that might appear on law firm websites such as legal news, articles, media releases, newsletters and profiles, amongst other things.