Our states of legal research interest are self-limited primarily to states in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and
10th Federal Circuits. Those states of primary interest are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin,
and Wyoming.
Doing research on legal malpractice, legal ethics, or
expert witness law?
We recommend the
lexisONE legal guide to state resources
as a best site for state legal resources. Their
guide includes law sources and also the basic rules and forms for many states.
Most of the sources are free to use, although you may have to drill down
several layers to get to what you want, and you may have to do a
free registration.
Best Sites From lexisONE's Legal Web Site Directory has some of
the most useful legal Web sites, some of which are directly single-state
related and which can help on problems involving legal malpractice,
legal ethics, and expert witness law.
Our present list of preferred state resources sites includes
the following two, each of which has interfaces or advantages you may
prefer.
-
Martindale-Hubbell's corporate area site
includes access to a Law
Digest that summarizes the laws of all 50 states.
- The Rominger Legal
law finder has the nifty graphic finder which they furnished us
to put on this page, so you can go direct to the state's resources from
here, instead of detouring.
State Court specific questions? Hosted by the National Center for State
Courts, the
State
Courts Website
includes links to all available state
courts and many state resources.
US
State and Local Bar Associations, hosted
by the ABA Division for Bar Services, of course, is the state
for finding up to date state bar associations. This site
has a clickable map with links to the various state bar
associations. Expert witnesses should usually check the state bar association's
website if they are doing research on legal malpractice and legal
ethics, expert witness law
State statutes can be found often through the Cornell University site.
However, the commercial sites listed at the top of this page may be (and
probably are) better suited for legal research.
The state statutes often contain enacted versions of Uniform Acts. Uniform
Acts by Nat. Comm. Uniform Final Acts site has the uniform acts as
proposed by the Uniform Commissioners. Another site has the Uniform Acts
as enacted by the various states. A link leads to the archives and
present drafting notes of the Commissioners.
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