World-Wide Web Resources for Free Legal Research

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ - Legal information through a law school website. Designed especially for law students.

http://barratry.law.cornell.edu/notify/buzz.html - BigEar listens to a variety of law-related mailing lists and newsgroups. From each, it selects messages which contain references to Net documents, and constructs a convenient cumulative listing which shows the title of the document, a link to it, and a link to the message "announcing" it on the mailing list. At the end of a week's time, the old listing is scrapped and a new one started. It thus offers a (slightly distorted) view of what's new on the Net for lawyers, and of what people are talking about.
http://www.law.cornell.edu:9999/USCA-ALL/search.html - Link from Cornell site to search US court of appeals.

http://www.findlaw.com/ - Numerous links to diverse sites for the law professional or other professionals, this is the main page.

http://biz.findlaw.com/ - Law resources for small businesses
http://consumer.pub.findlaw.com/ - Legal resources for the consumer
http://stu.findlaw.com/ - Legal resources for students
http://news.findlaw.com/ - Legal news and commentary
http://lp.findlaw.com/ - Legal resources for legal professionals
http://directory.findlaw.com/ - "Find a Lawyer" directory link from Findlaw.

http://www.hg.org/ - Hieros Gamos, legal information including news, resources, etc., in over 50 languages.

http://www.hg.org/employment.html - Hieros Gamos career center.

http://www.lawguru.com/ - homepage for law guru.

http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.html - The Internet Law Library (formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library) was originally provided to the public courtesy of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. This was part of the Counsel's mission to make the law available to the public. Still has numerous links.
http://www.lawguru.com/search/research.html - Welcome to the Legal Research page. From here you can search on more than 535 legal search engines and tools. Please bookmark this page for future reference. Use the drop-down menu form above to select the name of the engine you want to search. Then click the "Go there!" button and the search form for that engine will appear. Simple. The list is sorted alphabetically. This site has tried to include searchable resources for every state, including cases, court opinions, codes, statutes, bills and more, whenever possible. Federal resources can generally be found alphabetically. There is a lot more.

http://www.lawyerexpress.com/ - Designed by a busy lawyer for busy lawyers. Basic legal information.

http://www.lexisone.com/ - Lexis One is a site for small law firms. Some information is free, but much requires payment. The following are also part of the Lexis One group of links.

http://www.lexisone.com/legalresearch/caselaw_gate.html
http://www.lexisone.com/specialoffer/getOffer?action=mainIndex
http://www.lexisone.com/store/catalog?action=main:
http://www.lexisone.com/legalresearch/legalguide/legal_guide_index.html

http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml - Use this Locator to find a lawyer by name. Or click the tabs to search by location/area of practice, by firm, or for lawyers in corporations, agencies of the US government, or law school faculty. A&M has this database with more information.

http://www.washlaw.edu/ - Guide to legal research on the Internet.

http://www.washlaw.edu/directry/directry.html - Washlaw general directory.
http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html - Washlaw Document.
http://www.washlaw.edu/washburn.txt.html - Washburn law school link in the Washlaw.
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/admin/search.htm - search page for foreign and international law for Washlaw.

http://www.llrx.com/ - This site is done by Westlaw and has some free access.

http://www.llrx.com/guide/ - This is the link for the guide page in LLRX.

http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/index.shtml - A legal research guide: an annotated finding aid for legal professionals.

http://www.benefitslink.com/index.shtml - Since 1995, BenefitsLink has provided free compliance information and tools for employee benefit plan sponsors, service-providers and participants. We're independently published

http://www.ceoexpress.com/default.asp - Connecting executives to information that matters.

Statues and Regulations on the Internet

Federal:

Federal Judicial Center

http://www.fjc.gov/ - A education and research agency of the Federal judiciary. It serves its statutory mission by providing research on various aspects of the operation of the Federal judiciary. This site is valuable for more scholarly patrons researching statistical information about Federal litigation.

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usjudic.html - Good for simple searches and to find federal legal information

The General Services Administration

http://www.legal.gsa.gov/legal29.htm - Has links to many Fderal judiciary sites

US Courts

http://www.uscourts.gov/ - This site has links to all the courts. It is a portal to all Federal case law.

Thomas

http://thomas.loc.gov/  US Congress on the Internet

Firstgov

http://www.firstgov.gov/- "Your first Click to the US Government" access to over 47 million sites

Fedworld

http://www.fedworld.gov/ - An alternate way to locate Government information

US Supreme Court

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ - Homepage of US Supreme Court. Dockets, rulings, history, etc

US Code:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/ - Cornell
http://uscode.house.gov/ - Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Also available from Lawguru, Findlaw, Firstgov and GPO access.

Federal Regulations - CFR

GPO Access

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html
http://www.acccess.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html
Also links available from most sites listed above such as Cornell, Findlaw.

State:

Multistate:

http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statues.html - Cornell - State Statues on the Internet

Lawlinks state and federal codes

http://resource.lawlinks,com/content/legal_research/state_codes/state_codes.htm

Piper Resources State and Local Government on the Net

http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm

Rominger Legal

http://www.romingerlegal.com/

State links also found in Lawguru, Findlaw, Hieros Gamos, and Lexis One.

Michigan specific:

www.michbar.org

Michigan Legislature Online

www.michiganlegislature.org

Michigan OnLine

www.michigan.gov

Office of Regulatory Reform

www.michigan.gov/orr

Michigan Register

www.michigan.gov/orr/0,1607,7-142-5696-13996--,00.html

Municipal Codes

Municipal Code Corporation. Online codes

http://www.municode.com/: A private sector corporation that fortunately makes free downloads available.

Seattle Public Library

http://www.spl.org/selectedsites/municode.html : Seattle Public Library page with links to municipal codes.