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Secondary Sources Traditional Secondary Sources
Encyclopedias Periodical Articles
Law Reviews Bar Journals / Legal Newspapers
Treatises ALR Restatements Loose-leaf Services Practitioner Aids (CLEs/Form Books)
Hein Online
Secondary Sources Online Legal Portals General Portals Invisible Web General Search Engines and Directories Low-Cost Options
Legal Portals Often began as search engines Or as Yahoo-style menu systems Originally sponsored by non-profit or
academia Some morphed into commercial or
hybrid enterprises
Legal Portals: Commercial Findlaw.com
Includes LawCrawler, Google-Based search engine
LexisOne.Com ALSO: Lawsource.com Internet Legal Resource Guide
http://www.ilrg.com
LawGuru (http://lawguru.com) LawyerExpress.com
http://lawyerexpress.com
Findlaw Granddaddy of Legal Portals Owned by West since 2001 Supreme Court since 1893- Multi-Circuit Searching at Federal Level 30+ Law Reviews Largest online attorney directory Hybrid – Some commercial content
Customized Channels
Portals: Law Schools Cornell (Legal Information Institute)
(http://www.law.cornell.edu/) Indiana (Virtual Law Library)
(http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/index.html)
Texas (http://www.law.utexas.edu/research/)
Legal Portals: Academic Washlaw Web
http://www.washlaw.edu Jurist (University of Pittsburgh)
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ Primarily Secondary Sources Numerous Blogs
Portals of Distinction: Other Organizations
Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org
Law Firms Virtual Chase
http://www.virtualchase.com LLRX
http://llrx.com
HierosGamos
Legal Portals: Government FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov Thomas (Library of Congress)
http://thomas.loc.gov House of Representatives
Office of Law Revision Council http://uscode.house.gov
Search Engines and Directories Google.com (http://google.com)
Indexes links as well as full-text Google Directory part of Open Directory
Project “Monetizing”
Yahoo.com (In Transition)
Google.com
Search Engines and Directories AlltheWeb (http://alltheweb.com) Hotbot.com (http://www.hotbot.com)
Highly precise searching possible Useful Advanced Search mode
LawCrawler (Findlaw/Google) About.com (Directory only)
AlltheWeb.com
Search Engines and Directories Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu/ Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org Resource Discovery Network
http://rdn.ac.uk/ British
Forms FindForms.com HieroGamos Forms
http://hg.org/forms.html
Forms – FindForms.com
Hieros Gamos Legal Forms
Legal News Sites Newspapers Online
New York Times (http://nytimes.com) Washington Post (http://washingtonpost.com) Wall Street Journal (
http://interactive.wsj.com/ushome.html) Law.com About.com: Current Events/Law
http://law.about.com
Non-HTML data Streaming Media Audio/Video/Images Adobe PDF Real-Time Information Database Retrievals
Dynamically created HTML files Flash/Shockwave Compressed Files Executables
Finding Non-HTML File Formats Google & AlltheWeb: use the filetype
operator in Advanced Search filetype:pdf, ppt filetype:doc
Use specialized engines Research Index
Invisible (Deep) Web Consists of Databases in non-HTML, non-
static format Accessible from specific HTML pages Not indexed by Google or other major search
engines 2 to 20 times larger than the visible Web Higher Quality Information Variety of Data formats and search
mechanisms
Invisible Web Portals Intelliseek
http://www.invisibleweb.com Invisible-web.net Librarians Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org CompletePlanet
http://www.completeplanet.com/
Invisible Web Portals Gary Price's Direct Search
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm The Big Hub
http://www.thebighub.com/ Turbo 10
http://turbo10.com/ PDF documents
http://searchpdf.adobe.com
Low-Cost Alternatives Versus Law Loislaw.com Law.com
Practice-area specific Some free news articles
Practice Centers
Conclusions Know your Sources Use Multiple Sources Know your Scope Inexpensive is generally better than
free Keep an eye on the market
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