Articles Tagged with Free legal research resources

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Do you have what it takes not only to enjoy law school classes, but not to fall asleep when you hear someone talk about indebitatus assumptsit, a conditional devise, malum in se, expiation, scienter, asportation, or chattel paper?
(It gets worse: You have to read statutes drafted by legislators and decisions written by judges. Torture, indeed, unless of course you are a budding Clarence Darrow or David Boies.)
If you want to learn a little about the law, try some free online seminars, from:
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We’re beginning to compile a list of free, online, legal formatting templates.NOTE: this is NOT a list  of “fill in the blank” legal action-specific forms.  These are very simple forms templates, with field and line number formatting, that a litigant and lawyer could use to draft their own legal documents when specialized, sometimes expensive legal forms software is unavailable.

You still need to research the law!

We’ll add to this list as we learn about more options, but it’s a start:

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Find free U.S. court opinions at the FDsys website.  This is a pilot project and not yet fully populated, but take a look:
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Free Federal Rules Ebooks, from the Legal Information Institute (compatible with iPad, Kindle, and more.)
If you know LII, you know free doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice quality. The books are based on LII’s federal rules collections, the premiere, free versions of the federal rules online. Our federal rules ebooks include:
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Free public access to federal court opinions through GPO’s FDsys may be coming soon.  A lot of people (e.g. those “it’s all online” types who haven’t a clue) think this is easy now – ha ha ha.
But soon it may be soon.  See the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog post:
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OREGON ATTORNEYS: YOU HAVE FREE, EASY, and REMOTE ACCESS TO THIS PHENOMENAL COLLECTION OF OSB PUBLICATIONS!!!
IT’S CALLED OSB BARBOOKS.
REALLY, TRULY! IT’S FREE!  IT’S EASY!  ACCESS FROM HOME, FROM ROME, FROM THE CHICAGO DOME!
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Georgetown Law Center has a super-duper, extra-delicious and wondrous guide to free and low-cost legal research databases. I refer people to it so often that it has become my friend. (If corporations can be “persons” then a research guide can be a “friend.” Yes, no, maybe? Please let’s not discuss. Sigh.)

Use it and enjoy – and give a big THANK YOU to law librarian Todd Venie who keeps it stocked, chock full of goodness and well within any sell-by dates. (If you’ve created guides like these you know just how much work goes into them. Wowsers.)

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I meet more Oregon attorneys who don’t know about this wonderful news than attorneys who do know, so here goes:

Starting January 1, 2010, the OSB BarBooks database will be available and free to ALL members of the Oregon State Bar.

(Many Oregon county law libraries will have subscriptions to the database, too.)

Read more about the database or contact the OSB (not me, please), if you have questions.

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