Other Free Legal Research Sites

In addition to AltLaw, the following sites provide free legal reference information:

  • Cornell Legal Information Institute — An early leader in web legal reference with extensively-hyperlinked U.S. Code and Supreme Court collections.

  • Justia — Searchable cases, codes, regulations, legal blogs, and community resources.

  • public.resource.org — A project to create an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporters.

  • preCYdent — an experimental legal search engine an on-line community.

  • FindLaw — State and federal constitutions, codes, and court cases from Thomson/West, publishers of the Federal Reporters and WestLaw.

  • lexisONE — Resources for small law firms, from LexisNexis.