Law Technology

Search Tools

By Rex Gradeless

OnlineUniversiteis.com recently published a list of “100 Niche Search Engines Every College Student Needs“. In this list of 100, they included the following for law students:

Search through all kinds of legal history and information using these tools.

1. Everybody?s Legal Glossary: This searchable resources puts legal terms into plain English so that you can understand them.
2. Catalaw: Catalaw is a site that brings together the world?s law catalogs and lets you search through them.
3. FedLaw: This site will help you find everything from the meaning of acronyms to forms and legal restrictions for businesses.
4. Supreme Court Decisions: If you need to look up a Supreme Court case, this site makes it simple.
5. LawGuru: Using this site, you can ask any kind of legal question and get answers or find out what kind of law offices are open in your area.
6. Hieros Gamos: Find law firms, jobs, legal information and just about anything else related to the law by searching this site.
7. Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research: This site makes it easy to search for Supreme Court decisions, legislation, regulations and more.
8. World Legal Information Institute: Search through this database to find information related to legal cases from around the world.

The complete list of 100 search tools can be found here.

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Full post as published by Social Media Law Student on February 09, 2010 (boomark / email).