Bucklin Of Counsel legal research aids and legal forms used in preparation for reports, depositions, and trials on professional and business ethics, legal malpractice, attorney fees, and corporate ethics and governance issues.

We do research to produce our reports. Some of our links on this site from time to time will take you to sub webs of information or research links that we have used in researching the topics of professional ethics, legal malpractice and attorney fees awards, costs shifting and law firm billing.  Be aware that the sub webs are  designed for BOC in its research of Ethics and Attorney Negligence and Legal Fees Billing, as well as Corporate Governance and Corporate Ethics issues. When BOC is working in a distant city, we can log onto the internet and quickly follow links to find information. Because these research pages are designed only for BOC personnel, do not look for them to be "user friendly" and do not look for all links to be working links today.

State Research Links                Federal Research Links

► ROMINGER LEGAL has an entry portal for free legal research.  Use their entry link board to case law.

Of course, for legal research there are the old reliables that you learned in law school: Westlaw and Lexis.  If you are paying for web-based research, Westlaw and Lexis will give you the most law quickest, and the most research helps.   (If you do not have Westlaw or Lexis contracts, with a credit card, you still can access those services on a one document or form at a time basis.) Westlaw or Lexis will not necessarily give you the most research help per the dollar spent, unless you have a firm large enough to spread the cost over a substantial amount of legal research each month..  What follows are some observations and links that we use more often in research regarding subjects such as trial procedure, handling litigation, legal and business ethics, malpractice, or preparing for seminars or legal or business ethics education training for lawyers or management.

But why use a credit card to buy a case at a time, or pay thousands of dollars per year to maintain more research power than you need, when the services of TheLaw Net are so reasonably priced.  You buy the $10 a week service of the TheLaw Net to find most case and statute law and use their Virtual Assistant to find law review and other article research. ► TheLaw.net's Virtual Assistant will assist (free of charge to subscribers of TheLaw net) with clerical reference and retrieval tasks of known items of information (including any Federal or state judicial opinions) that you may not be able to access directly via their legal research internet system for whatever reason.  We agree with their statement that they have " The finest hands-on research, reference and retrieval support service in the business." 

►Lexis has a Desk Reference Page that is a handy entry to the Blue Book citation format, medical dictionaries, et cetera.  

►The Law Guru has a good general interest library and a quick server to take you to the linked libraries.   ►There is a cornucopia of other sources collected  at virtualchase.com. ► If you want a "user friendly" law resources site, we definitely recommend you start with www.OneBigBlawg.com  It is a  free resource for lawyers, designed as a knowledge management site for attorneys. OneBigBlawg combines jurisdiction-specific legal research and reference forms and  tools, and an attorney collaboration interface.  For good measure it even includes local bar events and announcements, all at one site. OneBigBlawg offers all of its information with both state-by-state and national search ability.  Tip: there are interactive discussion forums, allowing attorney visitors to post questions, advice and practice tips, which are automatically archived in a key-word searchable index.

►has a mammoth amount of links.  I still have not understood the name of the site.  HierosGamo.  has a list of links to every bar association in the world, plus two-page-long essays on a number of legal substantive topics.