http://www.virtualchase.com/
This particular site has research articles, guides, and tools which will enable
the student to find specifically what he or she is looking for in their research.
The tools provided will help the researcher to look information up as quickly
as possible without having to hunt around the site. The site is sponsored
by Ballard Spahr Andrews and Ingersoll, LLP law firm, one of the hundred largest
law firms in the country. The Virtual Chase also has wonderful directories
that can be really helpful to any researcher that may get lost in the website.
http://www.findlaw.com/
The resources in this site include web search utilities, cases and codes of
legal news. In January of 2001 Findlaw became part of the West group. Findlaw
has easy access to any court case summary in the United States. The summaries
of law provided are brief and will help the student lean more individual areas
of law. Other important tools this website has to offer are: News and reference
materials, Bluebook which is helpful when one cannot remember a proper format
when citing law, legal employment, legal software, legal forms, and access
to federal law, United States law and state law. This website has a variety
of choices for legal research, legal questions, or legal information. It is
very extensive in its resources and offers a great amount of information for
users.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
LII’s mission is to “make law more accessible to legal professionals,
students, teachers, and the public.” Its law resources are listed alphabetically
which will benefit the student in locating their topic easier and faster so
the researcher can have more time to research the information they have been
given. It lists the United States codes, Constitution, court opinions. It
also lists law by source or jurisdiction. Its “spotlight” contains
recent news relating to law. LI I has great reviews from New York Times, The
National Jurist Magazine, The Washington Times etc.
http://www.abalawinfo.org/
This site is a major source for true legal information. It has a law student
division directed especially to benefit the student. It has a section of ABA
law information that will specify your information into certain categories
for easier research. It also has an assortment of ways to find your answers
to any legal research question you may have. The American Bar Association
has high standards in what is being put into the website, therefore, the site
should hold true and important facts for your research.
http://www.nolo.com/
This site contains every day legal matter and has easy access to questions
you might encounter. The information tools listed for the site’s user
are: legal encyclopedia, law dictionary, calculators, and a legal research
center. The legal research center has the Constitution, United States and
state laws, court information and research tips for the person who may need
help getting the information they need. Each is easily accessed from the homepage
and gets detailed as you enter a category.
http://www.loc.gov/law/glin
Contains seven fields for searching for law summaries. There is a page that
will show the student each field and give a description of each for the student
to decide which field would be best for his/her research. This is a government
site that will permit the student to pull up true government facts. This site
will also give you many links from the government to help in researching topics.
http://www.worldlawdirect.com/
This site allows you to access legal advice from some free-ask-an-attorney
options. It directs you into many different areas of law. This is an international
website with lawyers from all over the world willing to answer a legal question.
This is a good site for getting to the point answers.
http://www.legalethics.com/
This site would be good for any ethics class as far as what the laws is and
how you can break them. You can choose categories and topics on any ethical
area. There are also articles on the home page that are about legal professionals
violating their legal ethics and what has happened to them as a result. Legal
ethics is an important part of a legal profession. It can either make it or
break it. It is important to the legal entity that you may work with for you
to live an ethical professional life. This site will teach you the ethics
and the consequences of violating the standards that are set to the professionals
of law.
http://www.courttv.com
A website for searching recent court cases. It has links to legal help from
Findlaw and Crime Library which is a web page about some of the most famous
crimes in history. Crime Library contains only famous stories about the court
cases, it is an interesting link but may not have enough information for your
briefs. Court TV is good for students who would like to choose a court case
for some classes that ask to brief a case or research a case and still find
the work interesting to them. If students wish to find information on verdicts,
and consequences on some of the most notorious cases in the history of the
Unites States, this would be a good, fun website.
http://www.legalsurvival.com
or http://www.friran.com/
Has easy access to different areas of the law. It has study guides and tools
for law students, a legal checklist. This legal checklist has many different
articles that can be useful for information to a lawyer or any other legal
professional. Its investigative services are articles that contain different
ways people conducted information on certain areas of the law. Examples are
investigative services for individual accidents, child custody, missing persons
etc. It contains a newsletter, legal forms, and find-an-attorney browser.
This site is for ways of surviving different legalities in the legal world
today.
http://www.paralegals.org/
This is a national website for paralegals. The website will aid the student
in internet legal research by helping the student find links to a specific
subject for their research. The page is setup to help the user find exactly
what they might be looking for instead of searching around websites, it links
you to the website that will be of more interest to the topic. NFPA’s
website gives the user information about the paralegal career.
http://www.hg.org/
A legal site with endless resources for the student. Some resources include
legal associations, bar associations, United States and international law,
a law library, news center and so much more. A paralegal student can take
advantage of the many different kind of aspects this site uses for its internet
visitors. There is so much information laid out on the homepage and you can
retrieve even more within its pages.