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Performing Legal Research on the Internet—Part II

Performing Legal Research on the Internet—Part II. Thomas Keefe, Instructional Services Librarian The John Marshall Law School. Part II in a Nutshell. Tier-two Legal Research Services Popular Legal Portals Top Federal Sites Must-know Illinois Sites Freely-available Secondary Sources

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Performing Legal Research on the Internet—Part II

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  1. Performing Legal Research on the Internet—Part II Thomas Keefe, Instructional Services Librarian The John Marshall Law School

  2. Part II in a Nutshell • Tier-two Legal Research Services • Popular Legal Portals • Top Federal Sites • Must-know Illinois Sites • Freely-available Secondary Sources • Reference Sites • Tips for Successful Searching

  3. Tier-two Legal Research Services

  4. Tier-two Legal Research Services • Products • Loislaw • Now available free to JMLS students • Fastcase • Available for free to ISBA members • Google Scholar • Free to anyone with an internet connection • Versuslaw • Casemaker • Coverage • Cases • Statutes • Ease of use • Boolean or natural language • Caveats • Scope • Editorial enhancements • Citation services

  5. Loislawhttp://www.loislaw.com

  6. Fastcase via ISBAhttp://www.illinoisbar.org

  7. Google Scholarhttp://scholar.google.com Advanced search Legal opinions and journals

  8. Legal Portals

  9. LexisONEhttp://www.lexisone.com

  10. Findlawhttp://lp.findlaw.com

  11. Justiahttp://www.justia.com

  12. Cornell Legal Information Institutehttp://www.law.cornell.edu

  13. Federal Government Sites

  14. Federal Judiciary Homepagehttp://www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks

  15. U.S. Congress on the Nethttp://thomas.loc.gov

  16. Govtrack.ushttp://www.govtrack.us

  17. U.S. Code Searchhttp://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

  18. Code of Federal Regulationshttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

  19. E-CFRwww.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/

  20. Federal Registerhttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

  21. PACERhttp://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

  22. UncleSamhttp://www.google.com/unclesam

  23. FedStats—one stop for government stats http://www.fedstats.gov/

  24. Top Illinois Sites

  25. Illinois General Assembly http://www.ilga.gov

  26. Illinois State Bar Associationhttp://www.isba.org

  27. Illinois Corporate Name Databasehttp://www.ilsos.gov/corporatellc/

  28. ARDChttp://www.iardc.org

  29. Illinois Court Opinionshttp://www.state.il.us/court/Opinions/archive.asp

  30. Legal News, Articles, and Blog Posts

  31. Martindale.com Legal Libraryhttp://www.martindale.com/legal-library/

  32. Law.com Article Searchhttp://www.law.com/index.shtml

  33. Blawg.comhttp://www.blawg.com

  34. Reference Sites

  35. West’s Encyclopedia of American Lawhttp://www.answers.com/library/Law%20Encyclopedia

  36. Zimmerman’s Research Guidehttp://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmermans

  37. Wexhttp://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex

  38. Judges of the United States Courtshttp://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/judges.html

  39. Lawyer Locaters--Martindale Hubbell http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/Lawyer_Locator/Search_Lawyer_Locator/lawyer_search.xml

  40. Reference Sites--Bartlebyhttp://www.bartleby.com/

  41. Chicago Public Libraryhttp://www.chipublib.org

  42. Other Electronic Resources Available via JMLS Networkhttp://www.jmls.edu/library

  43. How to Do it Better Part III—Tips for Successful Internet Searching • Review the help page before you start searching for information on truncation, proximity searching and Boolean logic • Use phrases when possible • Add keywords to narrow search results • Place the most important or most unique search terms in a query first • Take advantage of advanced search features like “field” or “segment” searching

  44. Tips for Successful Internet Searching • Always use more than one search engine to locate information on the Internet • If you link to a URL, remove the trailing parts of the URL to get to higher levels of organization. There may be other useful information on other parts of the site • Use “find” (CRTL F) to locate keywords within Internet documents • If you’re looking for something and you don’t find it in ten minutes, stop! • THE END!!!!

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