portaportal

Revised May 1915

Algorithm

The Algorithm as a Human Artifact: Implications for Legal [Re]Search
The study clearly demonstrates that the need for redundancy in searches and resources has not faded with the rise of the algorit

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2859720

ABA Decision on Hidden Metadata

Lawyers Receiving Electronic Documents are Free to Examine Hidden Metadata: ABA Ethics Opinion

http://tinyurl.com/vgaym

Articles

Juror Behavior in the Information Age
"impact of social media on jurors who increasingly try to stay connected to work and home while performing their civic duty"

http://www.llrx.com/features/jurorbehavior.htm
We're Outta Here: Why Women Are Leaving Big Firms
"why Generation X and Y lawyers leave their firms"

http://www.oolawlaw.com/0207CL_Osterloh%20and%20Orta.pdf
When Knowledge Is an Asset: Explaining the Organizational Structure of Large Law Firms

http://ftp.iza.org/dp2353.pdf
The Age of Innocence: Actual, Legal and Presumed
" focus on the drift from unitary innocence to factual innocence rooted in exoneration jurisprudence"

http://www.llrx.com/features/ageofinnocence.htm

Blog: Articles, Reports and Conferences

Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship (Berkman Center for Internet and Law at Harvard University)

http://tinyurl.com/epaxh

Blogs

The Top 100 Law and Lawyer Blogs
Review first!

http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/library/the-top-100-law-and-lawyer-blogs.html
Blog Search Engine
3400 + Blogs in 64 Categories

http://blawgsearch.justia.com/category.aspx
LawLibTech
"A conversation on law library technology and knowledge management"

http://www.lawlibtech.com
Lawsites
"Tracking new and intriguing Web sites for the legal profession"

http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html

Blogs: Corporate Reputation, Liability, & Information Evaluation

Before You Blog, Check With Your Insurance Carrier

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1174307783120
Blogging and your Corporate Reputation: Part One – Listen to the Conversation

http://www.factiva.com/collateral/files/whitepaper_blogs1_1205.pdf
Blogging and your Corporate Reputation: Part Two – Contribute to the Debate

http://www.factiva.com/collateral/files/whitepaper_blogs2_1205.pdf
Blogs Become Big for Business and for Legal Firms (Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)

http://tinyurl.com/7fo22
The Value of User-Generated Content, Part 1

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200603/pij_03_07_06a.html
The Value of User-Generated Content, Part 2

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200603/pij_03_27_06a.html
The Value of User-Generated Content, Part 3

http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200604/pij_04_26_06a.html
Wikis, Blogs and Other Points of Failure
"blogs and wikis, are extremely hazardous to corporate health"

http://tinyurl.com/mv896

Building a Good Website

Faulkners Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys
Tips and techniques to get more from a website

http://www.llrx.com/columns/faulkner4.htm
The Tao of Law Librarianship: Librarian on the Verge of KM
Knowledge Management (KM) focus

http://www.llrx.com/columns/tao5.htm

Case Law (Free Access)

Fastcase
Supreme Court back to 1754; federal circuit cases start in 1925; federal district court cases back to 1912

https://www.fastcase.com/Corporate/Home.aspx
Casemaker
Supreme Court back to 1754; federal circuit lback to 1930; federal district court back to 1932

http://www.casemaker.us/

Corporate Law

Who Represents America's Biggest Companies: Marquee Names 2009
Full report (Electronic 2009 Corporate Representation (Who Counsels Who) Survey) must be purchased

http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202433038567&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1

Dictionaries

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
"universally regarded as a classic of legal literature, became the basis for the development of American law"

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/blackstone.asp
Wex
``a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia``

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex
Glossary of Legal Research Terms
SIU Law Library

http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/guides/glossary.htm
Common Legal Abbreviations
SIU Law Library

http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/guides/abbr.htm
Law Library Microform Consortium
" Preserving legal titles and government documents"

http://www.llmc.com/index.asp
Legal Research Coloring Book

http://www.cali.org/sites/default/files/ColoringBookFinalAug022016.pdf

Directory of Legal Research Journals

Non-Student Edited Peer Review and Trade Journals

http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/prodev/lawreview/non-student.pdf
On-line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals
2005 Directory

http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/prodev/lawreview/

Expert Witnesses

Expert 4 Law
"expert witnesses, legal consultants, litigation support, lawyer-to-lawyer networking and alternative dispute resolution service

http://www.expert4law.org
Martindale

http://experts.martindale.com/
Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys
"provider of testifying and consulting experts nationwide in technical and medical specialties"

http://www.tasanet.com
Juris Pro
Expert witness directory

http://www.jurispro.com
Finding & Researching Experts, Testimony
``a comprehensive guide to conducting research on expert witnesses``

http://tinyurl.com/2mqe2c

Expert Witnesses: How To Background Check an Expert

How to Vet an Expert
Outlines resources and strategies for vetting an expert

http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/vet_an_expert.html
How To Conduct a Background Check (Part 1)
Archived article from The Virtual Chase

http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/archive/background_checks_part2.html
How To Conduct a Background Check (Part 2)
Archived article from The Virtual Chase

http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/background_checks_part2.html

Government Documents on the Web

Guide to the U. S. Federal Legal System: Web-based Public Accessible Sources

http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/United_States.htm
Columbia University
Subject Guides & Internet Resources and Electronic Journals

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/
GPO Access and THOMAS for Legislative Research (Comparison Study)
Comparative Overview of GPO and THOMAS

http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain6.htm
Hot Docs: Government Documents in the News
"documents/reports about major governmental activities (New York City/State, U.S. Federal, or international)"

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/usgd/hotdocs.html
U. of Michigan Documents Center (Reference & Referral for Government (International, Foreign, Federal, State)
"reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international"

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/
U.S. Government Manual
Official handbook of the Federal Government

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/
THOMAS: Legislative Information from the Library of Congress

http://thomas.loc.gov/
FirstGov.gov (U.S. Governments Web Portal)
"official information and services from the U.S. government"

http://www.firstgov.gov/
State Legal Information

http://community.aallnet.org/digitalaccesstolegalinformationcommittee/stateonlinelegalinformation

Government Tracking: Information on Federal Legislation

GovTrack
"tracking the status of federal legislation and the activities of your senators and representatives"

http://www.govtrack.us/
Open Congress
"brings together official government data with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind each bill"

http://www.opencongress.org/
THOMAS
Legislative Information from the Library of Congress

http://thomas.loc.gov/
United States House of Representatives

http://www.house.gov/
United States Senate

http://www.senate.gov/

International Law

American Society of International Law: Resources
"foster the study of international law and to promote the establishment and maintenance of IR on on the basis of law & justice"

http://www.asil.org/index.cfm
Audiovisual Library of International Law
Sources on treaties; i'natl courts & tribunals; UN pubs & official documentation

http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/researchlibrary.html
Constitution Finder
"constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents [for countries around the world]"

http://confinder.richmond.edu
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
"official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agen

http://www.glin.gov/
GlobaLex International and Foreign Law Research (Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law))
International, Comparative, and Foreign Law Resources

http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/researchtools/globalex/index.htm
Human Rights Resources
Human rights and International criminal law & war crimes from University of Kent (UK)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/lawlinks/humanrights.html
Institute for Advanced Legal Studies: European Union Member States (University of London)
"guides prepared by IALS Library staff as introductions to legal research"

http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/guides/research_guides.htm
Institute for Transnational Law: Foreign Law Translations
"resource for French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in constitutional, administrative, contract and tort

http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/transnational/work
International Law Resources (University of Kent)
Research guides from University of Kent (UK)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/lawlinks/internationallaw.html
Intute Law
"aims to identify and evaluate legal resource sites offering primary and secondary materials global legal information resources"

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/law/
World Legal Information Institute
"890 + databases from 120 + countries and territories"

http://www.worldlii.org/
Guide to Law Online: Treaties
Library of Congress collections of texts of treaties and to treaties research guides

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/treaties.php
Guide to Law Online: Treaties
Law Library of Congress guide to collections of texts of treaties & to treaties research guides.

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide/treaties.php
World Legal Information Institute
"1246 databases from 123 jurisdictions via 14 Legal Information Institutes"

http://www.worldlii.org/
Comparative Constitutions Project
The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare

http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/
Top ten developments in international law in 2016
Successes in IL especially decisions against the interests of states and corporations

http://blog.oup.com/2016/12/top-ten-international-law-2016/

EISIL

Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
"highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet"

http://www.eisil.org/
Features - Looking For International Law? EISIL It!
How to use EISIL

http://www.llrx.com/features/eisil.htm

Law School Research Sites

Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Others
Includes "Sites for Virginia-Related Legal and Other Materials"

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/links.asp
Searching U.S. Law School Websites
Google Custom Search

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/searchlawschools.htm
American Assn. of Law Libraries

http://www.aallnet.org/
Copyright and Fair Use (Stanford University)

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Cornell Legal Information Institute (Participant in World Legal Information Institute)

http://www.law.cornell.edu
Database of Public Company Bankruptcies (UCLA)

http://lopucki.law.ucla.edu
Duke University Center for the Study of the Public Domain

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/
JURIST

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
MetaJuris
Metasearch engine, simultaneously searches various legal databases for cases, statutes and literature citations

http://metajuris.ittc.ku.edu/
Most Cited Legal Periodicals

http://law.wlu.edu/library/mostcited/index.asp
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
"working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, & other scholarship"

http://lsr.nellco.org/
SIU Law Library - Research and How-to Guides

http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/guides/
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Wasburn School of Law
State and U.S.Federal and International Resource Directory

http://washlaw.edu

Harvard University

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
"access to material created by faculty, staff, and students of the Harvard Law School"

http://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/7
The Journal of Legal Analysis
"broad in coverage, including doctrinal legal analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship."

Legal Research Portals

Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine
ABA site with Google Custom Search Engine

http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/lawreviewsearch.html#search_manually
A Journalist
"introduction to the federal judicial system, its organization and administration"

http://www.uscourts.gov/understand03/
An Overview of Selected Legal Digital Libraries
A review of 10 digital libraries from the legal field.

http://www.llrx.com/features/legaldigital.htm
Best Legal Web Sites
Source: The Essential Guide to the Best & Worst Legal Sites on the Web

http://www.nylawyer.com/law101/bestsites/
Brief Serve: U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals Records and Briefs

http://www.briefserve.com
Federal Judicial Center (Education and Research with Publications)

http://www.fjc.gov/
Global Legal Monitor (GLM)
``legal developments from around the world``

http://www.loc.gov/law/news/glm.html
Hieros Gamos (Consumer Law for Non-lawyers)

http://www.hg.org/
How to Effectively Locate Federal Government Information on the WWW (UCSB)

http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/gov/intro.html
How To Perform Legal Research
Statutory Law

http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/
IP Mall

http://www.ipmall.info
Jenkins Law Library

http://www.jenkinslaw.org/researchlinks/index.php?rl=1
Law and Policy Institutions Guide (Domestic Legal & Legislative, International Treaties, Journals)

http://www.lpig.org/
Law Office.com (Covers Law for Non-lawyers - Consumers, Businesses & Law Students)

http://www.lawoffice.com
Law-related, Government (Federal, State & Local), Court Opinions, Public Records, & More

http://www.llrx.com/sources.html
Legal References and Abbreviations Used in Periodicals

http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/
Legal Research Guides (The Virtual Chase)

http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/index.shtml
LEGAL, FACTUAL AND OTHER INTERNET SITES FOR ATTORNEYS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONALS
Tim Coggins article

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/v15i4/article13.pdf
PLOL: Public Library of Law
Free sources of U.S. federal law & the laws of all 50 states

http://www.plol.org
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (University of Houston)(Select Legal Issues)

http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/toc.htm
SIU Carbondale Law Library

http://www.law.siu.edu/lawlib/general/search.htm
Who is Suing Whom? (Patent, Trademark and Copyright Infringement Cases)

http://www.tlc-i.com/texis/tmp/litcases3
Cases, statutes, law review, and more A guide to free online legal resources

http://crln.acrl.org/content/77/11/563.full

Legal Research Skills

New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of New Technology
"most new lawyers lack critical practice skills, including adequate legal research skills"

http://tinyurl.com/22tp64
Law Librarians Debate Student Research Skills
Today, students "don't know how to use the electronic resources to their full potential."

http://tinyurl.com/33vqkh
Quality Legal Writing Instruction

http://www.alwd.org/alwdResources/alwdABAStdsPositionPaper.pdf
Searching Dirty to Find What's Hidden
Covers the robot.txt file search

http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/transfer.asp?xmlFile=aug07/27aug07.xml#sd
Surfin Safari — Why Competent Lawyers Should Research on the Web
Yale Journal of Law and Technology

http://www.yjolt.org/files/margolis-10-YJOLT-82.pdf
Locating the Law: Handbook for Non-law Librarians

http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/locating/complete_5th_edition.pdf
How To Conduct Free Legal Research Using Google Scholar In 2015
Part 1

http://www.llrx.com/features/googlescholar2015p1.htm
How To Conduct Free Legal Research Using Google Scholar In 2015
Part 2

http://www.llrx.com/features/googlescholar2015p2.htm

Legal Research Teach-In Content

2009 Teach-in

http://www.aallnet.org/sis/ripssis/TeachIn/2009/index.html
Previous Teach-ins

http://www.aallnet.org/sis/ripssis/TeachIn/Past_Years.html

Legal Research: Online v. Print

The Death of the Digest and the Pitfalls of Electronic Research: What Is the Modern Legal Researcher to Do?

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v97n04/2005-41.pdf
The Corruption of Legal Research (Published in Appellate Advocacy Committee Perspectives, DRI, April 2004)

http://terrenceberres.com/sto-cor.pdf
The Corruption of Legal Research (PDF copy of April 2004 issue of the DRI: Skip to pages 39-41 (20 through 22 of 32) and 51 (32 of 32).)

http://home.earthlink.net/~raymondpward/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/CommitteePerspectives.pdf

Link and Trademark (Search Engines) Law

Links and Law
Legal aspects of search engines and linking (international focus)

http://www.linksandlaw.com/news.htm
Trademark Law – What Search Marketers Should Know
Part 1

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627333
Trademark Law – What Search Marketers Should Know
Part 2

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3627346

Link Rot

The Chesapeake Project
Page 6 - URL Inactivity Levels or “Linkrot”

http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/policies/legal_twoyearprojectevaluation_june2009.pdf
>>"Link Rot" and Legal Resources on the Web: A 2011 Analysis
"annual investigation of link rot among the original URLs for online law and policy-related materials"

http://www.llrx.com/features/linkrot2011analysis.htm
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/49-of-the-links-cited-in-supreme-court-decisions-are-broken/279901/
Harvard University 2013 Study

49% of the Links Cited in Supreme Court Decisions Are Broken
In Supreme Court Opinions, Web Links to Nowhere
NYT Article about 2013 Harvard Study

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/us/politics/in-supreme-court-opinions-clicks-that-lead-nowhere.html?_r=1&
Perma: Scoping and Addressing the Problem of Link and Reference Rot in Legal Citations
SSRN Paper authored by Harvard researchers on 2013 link rot study

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2329161
Perma: Scoping and addressing the problem of “link rot”
Harvard legal blog article by 2013 study authors

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/futureoftheinternet/2013/09/22/perma/

Medical Information

Researching Medical Literature on the Internet -- 2005 Update

http://www.llrx.com/features/medical2005.htm

Preserving the Citation of Web References

Going, Going, Still There: Using the WebCite Service to Permanently Archive Cited Web Pages

http://www.jmir.org/2005/5/e60
WebCite

http://www.webcitation.org/
Internet Archive
Wayback Machine

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Public Records

American Press Institute (geared to reporters)
Audience - reporters

http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/4040.cfm
BRB Publications
(State and local government public records databases and collections

http://www.brbpub.com
Merlin Information Services
Large directory of resources

http://www.merlindata.com/industrylinks.html
People Finder Guide: Public Records
"comprehensive list of free public record sites"

http://www.publicrecordsources.com
Pretrieve Public Records Search Engine

http://www.pretrieve.com/
Public Record Sources

http://www.publicrecordsources.com/
Search Systems
Business information, corporate filings, property records, unclaimed property, professional licenses, & court filings)

http://www.searchsystems.net
SSN Validator

http://www.ssnvalidator.com

Search Engines

Cognition
Semantic Natural Language Processing (NLP): beta

http://www.cognition.com/info/cog_legal.html
The Public Library of Law (PLoL)
See User Guide at: http://www.plol.org/Pages/FAQ/UserGuide.pdf

http://www.plol.org/Pages/Search.aspx
MetaJuris
Metasearch engine that searches PLoL, PreCYdent, and others

http://metajuris.ittc.ku.edu/search.php
PreCYdent
Searches: Supreme Court, all Federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, Federal Reporter, & Federal District Courts

http://www.precydent.com/

Use of the Internet by the Courts

JUDICIAL ETHICS AND THE INTERNET: MAY JUDGES SEARCH THE INTERNET IN EVALUATING AND DECIDING A CASE?

http://www.abanet.org/judicialethics/resources/TPL_jethics_internet.pdf