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Internet Legal Issues
and Research
Faye
Jones
Director and Professor
Florida State University
College of Law Library
[email protected]
Acknowledgements
Florida State University Law Library
Mary McCormick, J.D., M.S.
Margaret Clark, M.S.
Reference Librarian
Marin Dell, J.D., M.S.
Assistant Director for Public Services
Reference Librarian
U.S. Department of Defense
ARPA/DARPA,
http://www.darpa.mil/body/arpa_darpa.html
Internet Legal Issues
Internet Legal Issues
E-commerce
Contracts, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Cybercrime
E-discovery issues and metadata
E-data from automobile black boxes
Is Your Car Spying on You?
MVEDRs
Ethical issues
Risks of law firm websites, blogs and email
Ex parte communication
Mullins v. Department of Commerce, 06-3284 (C.A. Fed Circuit,
May 4, 2007)
E-lawyering
LegalXML, http://www.legalxml.org/about/index.shtml
Keeping up with the Joneses, Esq.
Blogs & RSS feeds
DennisKennedy.com
Feedblitz
Tech Law Prof Blog
Google To Offer Deep Government Info for Four States
Search engines
California, Arizona, Utah and Virginia
To Googlize inaccessible data in state electronic files
Google and 47+ others
Internet legal research
Florida Electronic Library
http://www.flelibrary.org/
Available resources include electronic
magazines, newspapers, almanacs,
encyclopedias, and books, providing
information on topics such as current events,
education, business, technology, and health
issues.
FloridaLawHelp.org
FloridaLawHelp.org
http://www.floridalawhelp.org/FL/index.cfm
Links to a Legal Services Directory for the
State of Florida, as well as a list of collected
information materials from agencies and
legal clinics throughout Florida.
Caselaw – Where to Find It for
Free
US Supreme Court:
Official Slip Opinions: http://www.supremecourtus.gov
Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu
LexisONE: http://www.lexisone.com/ (Click on “Find Cases for Free”)
US Circuit Courts:
Office of US Courts: http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html
Federal Courts Finder: http://law.emory.edu/caselaw/
US District Courts:
Office of US Courts: http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html
Legal Information Institute:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/districts.html
Pacer
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/
Electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy,
and Appellate court records
Free written opinions
Federal case statistics
Party/Case Index
LexisOne
http://www.lexisone.com/
Use the LexisNexis® Research Service to
access U.S. Supreme Court cases from
1790 to present, as well as federal and state
cases decided within the last five years.
(selected coverage)
Florida Supreme Court website
http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/
index.shtml
Also provides links to District Court of
Appeals opinions and Court Rules.
Justia
http://www.justia.com/
Free legal information on practice areas
Cases
Regulation tracker, a free searchable database of
Federal Register Regulations, Proposed Rules
and Notices
Online Sunshine
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/
Links to Florida legislation, including the
Florida Statutes, the Laws of Florida and the
Florida Constitution.
LII/Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a
research and electronic publishing activity of
the Cornell Law School.
Wex: a collaboratively-created, publicaccess law dictionary and encyclopedia.
Municode.com
http://www.municode.com
Online Library with U.S. municipal/county
ordinances
Pamphlets for selected state analysis by
Municode
Forms.gov
Forms.gov
http://forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal
Federal Forms listed by form number, agency
and “frequently used” forms.
USCourtforms.com
U.S. Courtforms
http://www.uscourtforms.com/
Court, Legal & Business Forms Available in
non-fillable PDF format
Federal, State and Local County Forms in all
practice areas.
Florida State Courts website –
Family Law Forms/Rules &
Opinions
http://www.flcourts.org/
Family law forms for use in dissolution,
paternity, child support, name change, and
grandparent visitation cases. The forms are
up-to-date, in engrossed (ready to use)
format, with all amendments incorporated.
Internet Legal Research Group
http://www.ilrg.com/forms/
Over 2000 free legal forms, a number of
forms are adapted for state-specific use.
‘Lectric Law Library
http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html
Business & General - dealing with subjects
like Real Estate, Corporations, Employment,
Contracts, Trusts and Wills.
Legal Practice - focusing on Law Practice
Management, Litigation and related matters.
FindLaw
FindLaw.com
http://public.findlaw.com/library/statelaws.html
Legal information portal for the general
public; contains links to forms, state and
federal legislation and a legal dictionary.
LLRX.com
http://www.llrx.com/resources7.htm
Legal information portal with links to a legal
resource center, legal articles and law related
listservs.
MegaLaw.com
http://www.megalaw.com/states.php
Legal portal with state specific legal resource
pages.
LawSource
http://www.lawsource.com/
The home of American Law Sources On-line
(ALSO!), providing a comprehensive,
uniform, and useful compilation of links to
freely accessible on-line sources of law for
the United States and Canada, as well as
Mexican sources.
Where to find briefs
http://www.legaline.com/freebriefslinks.html
Portal linking to free Internet sites with
searchable state and federal briefs.
FSU Law Library
Free Internet Research Page
http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/databases/publicl
egalinfo.html
International Law
http://www.asil.org/
http://lexmercatoria.net/
Human rights
International business transactions
Arbitration
Maritime law
Taxation
Tips for Creating a Practice
Library
Organize bookmarks of most frequently used sites
by jurisdiction, function and subject
MFU-FL
MFU-FRM
MFU-FAM
Review daily client schedule and pull up relevant
bookmarks for that day
Download or cut/paste frequently used forms for
quick use
Check sites often for new content and functionality
Need More Help?
Inter Alia weblog, http://www.inter-alia.net/
Zimmerman’s Guide:
http://www.lexisone.com/zimmermanguide/index.html
An online legal encyclopedia providing definitions, examples,
explanations and useful links
The Virtual Chase How-To Guides:
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/court_records.html
An annotated guide to sources of information on various types of legal
research