New York State Library | Internet Bibliographies
The Association of the Bar of the City
of New York
This site provides information on pro bono work, continuing education,
law libraries, association services and events, technical support, and
publications. Also available are resources for the public such as a lawyer
referral service, legal clinic information, complaint information and
the City Bar Justice Center. Also provides access to the full text
of reports and issues of the association's journal, The Record
.
http://www.abcny.org
New York State Bar Association
This site provides information about law practice in New York State such
as legislative requests, some full text periodical and newsletter articles,
forums, and news. Information about continuing education, association
events, and attorney resources is also provided.
http://www.nysba.org
American Law
Sources Online: New York Forms
This site provides New York City property, business, and excise tax forms
for tax years 1996 to the present, New York Northern District court forms,
New York living will proxy forms, estate planning, probate, financial,
business, and real estate forms.
http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.cgi?ny#X1Q
FindLaw: Forms
This site provides free federal appellate, district, and bankruptcy forms
in pdf format, and state courts' forms for over 30 states. A forms exchange
message board allows visitors to post form requests online.
http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/
Internet Legal Resource
Guide Forms Archive
Generic forms available on this site include forms for buying and selling,
credit and collection, employment, leases and tenancies, loans and borrowing,
personal and family, transfers and assignments, and more.
http://www.ilrg.com/forms/index.html
New York State
Department of Taxation and Finance: Forms and Instructions
The Department of Taxation and Finance provides free New York State tax
forms on this site.
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/forms/default.htm
New York State
Unified Court System: Court Forms
This site provides forms for the Supreme Court, Family Court, Surrogates
Court, all Domestic Violence Courts, and more. Also available is
information about filing fees at the town, city and state levels.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/forms3.html
United States Court of Appeals,
2nd Circuit
The second circuit includes all federal courts within the states of New
York, Connecticut and Vermont; second circuit forms are available via
the clerks office link.
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/
USlegalforms.com
This site provides free federal forms, legal letter templates and links
to state specific Secretary of State forms. Also available are form
packages for categories such as marriage, identity theft, bankruptcy,
wills, real estate and more.
http://www.uslegalforms.com/freeforms.htm
WashLaw WEB
Washburn University School of Law provides links to different law form
sites, including form archives, fee-based archives, federal and state
tax forms, federal, state, and bankruptcy court forms, general business
forms, trademark forms, UCC forms, workers compensation and labor department
forms.
http://www.washlaw.edu/legalforms/
The American Society of International
Law
The resources section of this society's site includes the
ASIL Guide
to Electronic Resources for International Law, which contains resources
organized into categories such as human rights, criminal law, economic
law, intellectual property and more. Also available is
EISIL
, a searchable index of international law web sites and resources covering
such international topics as criminal law, communications, environmental
law, human rights, the use of force and more.
http://www.asil.org/index.html
Canadian Legal Information Institute
Similar to Cornell's Legal Information Institute, this site provides access
to statutes, regulations and court decisions on the Federal and Provincial
level.
http://www.canlii.org/
Constitution Finder
This database from the University of Richmond School of Law offers constitutions,
charters, amendments, and other related documents for countries around
the world. Browsable by country. Includes links to texts in languages
other than English.
http://confinder.richmond.edu
Cornell Legal Information
Institute(LII) - Global
The LII collection of world legal materials gathers, country by country,
continent by continent, the Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions,
statutes, judicial opinions, and related legal material from around the
globe. It also holds resources and document collections of international
law.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/
ECOLEX
| en Español
This international database provides searchable information on environmental
law throughout the world. Resources include national legislation,
court decisions, international journal articles, web sites and treaty
information.
http://www.ecolex.org/indexen.php
Global Legal Information
Network(GLIN)
GLIN, provided through the Law Library of Congress, is a public database
of laws, regulations, judicial decisions and other complementary legal
sources for jurisdictions spanning the globe.
http://www.glin.gov/search.action
Harvard Law School: Foreign and International Law Resources
This annotated collection of links from Harvard Law Library provides resources
organized into categories such as human rights, intellectual property,
roman law, terrorism and more. Also available are links to International
Organizations such as international courts and non-governmental organizations
associated with the United Nations, as well as foreign law resources for
many countries.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/international/web_resources/
International
Law Guide
This collection of articles, links, news and resources provides information
on international law organized by type of resource. The
Comparative & Foreign Law
guide provides resources on international law organized by country.
http://www.llrx.com/international_law.html
Lex Mercatoria
This searchable index of international law materials includes international
organizations, laws, rules, treaties, conventions and more. Information
is organized into categories such as trade law, electronic commerce, criminal
law, tax and financial law, economic law and more.
http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/
The Multilaterals
Project
An ongoing project at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, to make available
the texts of multilateral conventions and other international instruments.
The collections includes treaties in the fields of human rights,
the environment, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and
other areas. Most of the texts date from 1945, but the collection
also includes some historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia
to the Covenant of the League of Nations.
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html
New York University
School of Law: Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
This index of international law sites and databases was created by the
Law Library at New York University School of Law. Resources are
annotated and organized into categories such as commission, council of
europe, copyright, taxation, treaties, constitutions and more.
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/
United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
| en
Español
Full text of international human rights instruments, including the Geneva
Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other covenants
and agreements.
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/index.htm
These search tools allow for searching of individual attorneys or law schools.
The Association
of American Law Schools: Member Schools (U.S.)
This site provides a list of The Association of American Law School's
members, as well as non-member schools.
http://www.aals.org/about_memberschools.php
Attorney Find
This site allows users to search for an attorney by state and practice
area, as well as browsing attorneys using practice area categories.
http://www.attorneyfind.com
Attorney Locate
This site allows the user to search for attorneys by state, city and region
in the United States and Canada.
http://www.attorneylocate.com
Find Law: Lawyer Directory
This site allows users to find attorneys by location as well as by legal
issue. Resources providing information on hiring lawyers are also
available.
http://directory.findlaw.com/
LawInfo Attorney Directory
This site allows users to search for attorneys by name, law firm, state
and area of law.
http://attorneysearch.lawinfo.com/
Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
The Lawyer Locator allows users to find the credentials of both attorneys
and law firms. Searching by name, law firm, and city/state is available
as is browsing by practice area and location.
http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
Municipal Codification
This site provides selected municipal codes from General Code Publishers,
who is the hard-copy publisher of many states' town, city and village
codes.
New York State
municipal codes for many cities, towns and villages are also available.
http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html
Law.com New York
This site provides content from the New York Law Journal , regional
news briefs, and a NYS legal guide for non-lawyers. Also available
are court decisions, judges' profiles, courts' and judges' rules, and
bar exam results as well as the American Lawyer's list of the nation's
100 highest-grossing law firms. Subscription is required for some
New York Law Journal content.
http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/index.jsp
New York Court Help
|
en Español
This site provides court addresses and telephone numbers, information
about what kinds of cases are tried where, court procedures, and court
manager contract information. Also available is information
about common court related questions relating to family, civil and criminal
law, a legal term glossary, and a directory of law libraries. Official
court forms for family, divorce and civil law are available for download
and the site also includes a lawyer locator service.
http://www.nycourthelp.gov/
New York State Assembly
Legislative reports, member information, committee updates and grants
action news are available from this site. Also available is the
Assembly Legislative Information System which contains bills, laws, and
the New York State constitution.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/
New York State Attorney General: Opinions
This site provides the legal opinions, press releases, speeches and reports
from the attorney general's office.
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/lawyers/opinions/opinion.html
New York State
Comptroller: Legal Opinions
Legal opinions, press releases, reports, and other information from the
state comptroller's office is available from this site.
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/legal/index.htm
New York State Court
of Appeals
This site provides information on the Court of Appeals including the history
of the court, biographical information about judges, latest decisions
for the current year, rules of the court, and some documents such as the
State of the Courts.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/ctapps/
New York State
Department of State: Legal Memoranda
Legal memoranda on topics including cemetery regulations, corporations,
land use and zoning, local government, licensing services, rule making,
and more is provided from the Office of Counsel site.
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/cnsl/counsel.html
New York State
Department of Taxation and Finance: Publications
Downloadable publications available from this site include advisory opinions,
memos, notices from 1985-2002, and policy and statistical reports. Publications
are organized by number and by tax type such as corporation, income, highway
use, estate, petroleum business, sales and more.
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/pubs_and_bulls/
New York State Education
Department: Decisions
This site provides access to the decisions of the Commissioner of Education
from July 1991 to the present.
http://www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/
New York State Senate
This site provides a Senator directory by zip code and biographical information
on state senators. Bills and laws, some Senate reports, Senate rules,
and the New York State Constitution are also available here.
http://www.senate.state.ny.us/
New York
State Supreme Court Decisions
This web page provides links to New York State court decisions. The "Trial
Courts (Civil & Criminal)" link allows access to Supreme Court Civil and
Criminal court decisions from 2001 to the present for many New York State counties.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/decisions/index.shtml
New York State Unified Court
System
|
en Español
This homepage of the New York State Courts includes links to civil, criminal
and town and village courts as well as forms, law libraries throughout
the state. Also available are reports, publications, directories
and handbooks. Links from
the library section
lead to the New York State Constitutions from 1777 to 1894 as well as
information about the 1938 and 1967 constitutional conventions.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us
FindLaw
This subject directory provides resources and information on court decisions
and cases, news, career development, directories of law firms and organizations,
and federal, state, and other forms. Resources are organized into
topic categories such as traffic violations, real estate, accidents &
injuries, criminal law, employee rights, immigration, small business and
more.
http://www.findlaw.com
Freedominfo.org
This site provides a portal to material about freedom of information laws
worldwide. Information is organized into "Country Pages" which provide
specific freedom of information historical overviews as well as new developments
in many countries. The site also includes David Banisar's survey
of freedom of information laws in 45 countries, case studies, news releases,
reports, and analysis.
http://www.freedominfo.org
Gavel2Gavel
This legal directory includes annotated links to law resources that have
been organized into such categories as: law office management, codes &
statutes, bar associations, legal humor, employment, courts & opinions,
historical law and more. International law, court opinions, and
municipal law are particular strengths. The ancient laws section leads
to such things as the full text of the Code of Hammurabi, Roman law, the
law of William the Conqueror, the Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Articles
of Confederation, Declaration of Independence, and U.S. Constitution.
http://www.re-quest.net/g2g/index.htm
Hieros Gamos
|
en Español
This legal directory includes links to United Nations documents international,
employment resources areas of practice, law schools, online journals,
seminars, books, and legal forms. Also available are federal and
state legal associations, reference materials such as dictionaries and
yellow pages and law firm, lawyer, expert witness, court reporter and
investigator locator services.
http://www.hg.org/
JURIST:
The Legal Education Network
This site, created by a University of Pittsburgh law professor provides
recent legal news stories, articles, forums, videos, blogs and more. Information
is organized alphabetically into topics such as terrorism law, immigration,
voting rights and more. Separate
International
and U.S. versions
provide different content, articles and resources.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.php?edition=full
Law and Policy Institutions Guide
This site contains links to legal resources, international materials,
law study, law journals, treaties, continuing legal education resources,
associations, forms, books, law libraries, consumer information, reference
materials, and news.
http://www.lpig.org
LawGuru
This site includes the following features: a searchable bulletin board
of more than 4,000 legal messages, frequently asked questions on legal
issues, a directory of legal search engines, and a directory of electronic
mailing lists. LawGuru is now a host for the Internet Law Library of the
House of Representatives.
http://www.lawguru.com
Legal Information Institute
at Cornell
This database of full-text recent and historic Supreme Court decisions,
U.S. legal documents, New York State Court of Appeals information from
1990 to the present, and other state-level documents also provides access
to The Cornell Law Review.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/index.html
WashLawWeb
Washburn University School of Law's extensive guide to legal resources
on the internet includes topics such as state and federal laws, law schools,
law libraries, a full-text search of several law journals, discussion
groups and course materials.
http://www.washlaw.edu/
Wex: Legal Dictionary and
Encyclopedia
This legal dictionary and encyclopedia is provided by Cornell Law School's
Legal Information Institute.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/
Legal Information
Institute: Law by Source - State
From Cornell Law School, this site provides links, Internet-accessible
sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations
for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated
jurisdictions.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/states/index.html
State Statutes
from PrairieNet
This index contains links to sites providing full-text statutes, legislation,
administrative rules, session laws, and constitutions.
http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
Thomas
This site contains searchable interfaces to federal bills, public laws,
the Congressional Record, and federal committee reports. Bill summaries
and public laws are available from the 93rd session of Congress (1973-74)
to the present session of Congress. Bill text is available from the 101st
session of Congress (1989-90) to the present.
http://thomas.loc.gov
United States Court of Appeals,
2nd Circuit
The second circuit includes all federal courts within the states of New
York, Connecticut and Vermont. Information about judges' names,
forms, decisions, circuit executive's office, and the judicial council
is available, related links are also provided.
http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov
United States Department of Justice
The Department of Justice website includes the full text of reports such
as the U.S. Attorney General's Report, selected Appellate briefs, memoranda,
and opinions. Other topics covered include youth, community support and
grants, FOIA, business, employment, and fugitives and missing persons.
http://www.usdoj.gov
United States Federal Judiciary Home
Page
The U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeal and U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Armed Forces, U.S. District Courts, U.S. Tax Court, Court of Federal
Claims, Court of Veterans Appeals and the Court of International Trade
are represented on this site.
http://www.uscourts.gov
United States Sentencing Commission
The USSC is an independent agency in the judicial branch of government.
Its principal purpose is to establish sentencing policies and practices
for the federal courts, including detailed guidelines prescribing the
appropriate form and severity of punishment for offenders convicted of
federal crimes.
http://www.ussc.gov