Legal Resources

American Bar Association: "Your gateway to information on legal topics that affect your daily life." Topics covered include; your family, your home, your job, your finances, buying & selling, the courts, criminal justice and find a lawyer.

All Law - Ohio Links Page

CataLaw Legal Forms

Cleveland Law Library Association

Code of Federal Regulations

Cornell Legal Researcher Encyclopedia: "The Legal Research Encyclopedia is a topical and jurisdictional arrangement of all available formats, including print, microform, CD-ROM, WESTLAW, LEXIS and the Internet. Citation to research tools and direct links are provided."

Federal Register Online

Findlaw find a Lawyer, Attorney or Law Firm: Search the extensive database of materials that covers more than 400 legal topics or search the directory of more than one million lawyers and legal professionals, with tips on how to find and interview potential counsel. This site is brought to you by the publishers of West Legal Directory.

FindLaw Forms: At this site, visitors can access over 8,000 forms from United states federal and state courts (Ohio not available yet) for free from one easy-to-use location. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All of the forms are available in Adobe's PDF format.

Findlaw Guide

Internet Legal Research Group: A categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as thousands of locally stored web pages, legal forms, and downloadable files.

International Court of Justice: Cornell Law Library is now the official mirror site for the Americas for The International Court of Justice (Court, or ICJ). The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, is located in the Hague, Netherlands. Founded in 1946 to replace the Permanent Court of International Justice, it is the principal judicial body of the United Nations.

Jurist: JURIST is the authoritative legal news and real-time legal research website powered by a team of over 20 law student reporters, editors and web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The Law Office: Legal dictionary available here.

Law Scout : From the University of Akron. The software for this site will allow use of a very sophisticated search engine/database to provide subject access to all the pathfinders and guides of the over 130 law schools and other institutions. Now all the institutions and their pathfinders are listed and can be searched.

LawCrawler

The "Lectric Law Library

Legal Dockets Online: is a large docket portal. Court case information and news articles are organized by state. The different web sites linked to Legal Dockets Online offer a combination of case docket sheets, basic case information, decisions, and case document images. Most sources provide case information that is free or inexpensive to purchase. With federal, state, and local jurisdictions consolidated onto one concise user friendly page.

Legaldocs: provides legal documents, some are free

Legal Information Institute: The Institute publishes electronic versions of core materials in numerous areas of the law both online and packaged for download-- ranging from the Constitution to the Uniform Commercial Code.

Living Will: The Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Assoc. have created a new set of forms for the Living Wills, Advanced Health Directives, Organ Donor and Durable Power of Attorney. This site contains links to these advanced directives. "There are several types of advance directives available in Ohio: the Living Will, Health Care Power of Attorney , Ohio's Do-Not-Resuscitate law, and Organ and Tissue Donation. "

LLRX.com : Legal and Technology Articles and Resources for Librarians, Lawyers and Law Firms

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator

Nolo Press Self-Help Law Center: Legal encyclopedia available here.

The Ohio Bar Association

Ohio Child Support Calculator

Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Statewide Legal Services: "The purpose of this site is to provide the public with legal information and resources. The information in this site is not intended as legal advice (read our Disclaimer). Ohio State Legal Services Association acts as general counsel to Ohio's low-income population, and therefore, this site is focused primarily on legal problems and services for the poor."

Senior Law Home Page

State of Ohio Laws, rules & constitution

Supreme Court: Supreme Court decisions will be available the day of release. Orders granting or denying new appeals are posted weekly. Also available are the courts schedule and argument calendar, court's rules, visitors guides and much more.

Supreme Court Decisions

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

Thomson West: Includes a lawyer locator.

U.S. Code

U.S. Department of Justice