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CIVIL LITIGATION RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

Table of Contents

Federal Law

  • Court Opinions

  • Court Rules

  • Statutes and Regulations

State Law

  • Massachusetts: Court Opinions and Government Information

  • Other States: Court Opinions and Government Information

Litigation Web Sites

  • Hieros Gamos Guide to Litigation Law

  • Law Journal Extra

  • Findlaw

  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell)

Law Firms and Associations

Other Resources

  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)

  • National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)

  • New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)

Suffolk Law School Civil Litigation Courses

 

 

Federal Law

U.S. Supreme Court Opinions

These collections are searchable by name, date, topic or keyword, and by citation on the Findlaw site. Decisions from 1990 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html). Decisions between 1937-1975 (http://supcourt.ntis.gov/) Decisions from 1906-present (http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/US.html).

Federal Courts of Appeal Opinions

First Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/1stCircuit/)

Second Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/2ndCircuit/index.html)

Third Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/3rdCircuit/index.html)

Fourth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/4thCircuit/index.html)

Fifth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/5thCircuit/index.html)

Sixth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/6thCircuit/index.html)

Seventh Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/7thCircuit/index.html)

Eighth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/8thCircuit/index.html)

Ninth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/9thCircuit/index.html)

Tenth Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/10thCircuit/index.html)

Eleventh Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/11thCircuit/index.html)

D.C. Circuit (http://www.washlaw.edu/uslaw/circuits/DCCircuit/index.html)

Federal Circuit (http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov)

Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts

For links to federal district and bankruptcy courts:

(http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/#federal)

Court Rules

Supreme Court Rules; Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; Federal Rules of Evidence

(http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/overview.html)

(http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/)

(http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/overview.html)

United States Rules of Practice, including Federal Rules of Appellate procedure and Local Rules of the Courts of Appeal (http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.cgi?us1)

Click on Court Rules.

U.S. Code

Full-text of the U.S. Code is available at (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode) or (http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml).

Code of Federal Regulations

The text of public regulations issued by federal agencies and links to the proposed regulations from the Federal Register are available at: (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html).

Legislative Information

Information about the U.S. Congress, including membership and committee assignments, and documents, including laws, bills, selected committee reports and historical materials, are available at: (http://thomas.loc.gov/#laws).

 

State Law

Massachusetts Court Opinions

Recent slip opinions from the SJC and Appeals Courts are available at: (http://www.masslaw.com) and (http://www.socialaw.com). SJC opinions from 1937 and Appeals Court opinions from 1972 are available to subscribers at: (http://www.socialaw.com).

Massachusetts Government Information

For information on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with links to branches, departments and agencies, see (http://www.state.ma.us/). For a direct link to the Legislative Branch, see (http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/legis).

Other States: Court Opinions

For links to homepages for other state court systems and opinions of state judiciaries, see (http://www.law.cornell.edu/opinions.html).

Other States: Government Information

For information on governments of other states: (http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html).

 

Litigation

Heiros Gamos Guide to Litigation Law

Provides links to international sources, United States federal and state laws, rules of evidence and procedure, associations involved with litigation and related information:

(http://www.hg.org/litg.html).

Findlaw

Findlaw’s resources include links to state and federal law, court rules, full-text law journals on the Internet and article abstracts, mailing lists and discussion groups, and links to many other litigation sites on the web: (http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/29litigation/index.html).

Washburn Law School
Washburn Law School includes links to resources on many legal topics by subject.
(http://www.washlaw.edu/subject/index.html)

Directories of Law Firms

Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory provides national and international listings of law firms and describes firms’ practice areas: (http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub). For lists of law firms with web sites, see Law Firms on the Web: (http://www.ilrg.com/lawyers.html). For Massachusetts law firms on the web: Law Firms & Attorneys Massachusetts - Massachusetts Lawyers

Professional Associations

The following is a selected list of professional associations on the web which provide information on membership, sections and committees, CLE, publications and press releases, calendars of meetings and events, and links to legal resources on the web.

 

Massachusetts Bar Associations

Other Resources

Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE)

For a listing of MCLE holdings at the Suffolk Law School Library: Suffolk Law School Library: research databases

For a listing of MCLE publications at the Social Law Library: (http://www.socialaw.com). Click on MCLE holdings under Library holdings.

 

New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)

To access the catalogs of NELLCO member libraries, including the Social Law Library, see (http://www.nellco.org). Select Online Catalogs under Resource Sharing.

 

Suffolk University Law School Civil Litigation Course Offerings

 

Last updated: May 1, 2013.

Ellen V. Delaney

Reference Librarian



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