Research and Reference Resources

Law

Federal

Judicial Branch Resources on GPO Access --http://www.gpoaccess.gov/judicial.html
Federal courts, judicial resources, and additional resources

Public Laws (Thomas)(1973--)
Private Laws (Thomas)(1979--)

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet - http://thomas.loc.gov
Legislative information, congressional information and more from the Library of Congress.

U.S. Code (U.S. Congress. House. Office of Law Revision Counsel)- http://uscode.house.gov
GPO Access - U.S. Code --http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/
U. S. Code (Cornell Legal Information Institute) - http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode
Codification of general and public laws of the United States

Popular Names Index (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

U.S. Statutes at Large --http://www.gpoaccess.gov/statutes/index.html
The permament collection of all laws and resoultions enacted in each session of the Congress.

Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations (Cornell Legal Information Institute) - http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cfr/
Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access) - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
eCFR (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations) --http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&tpl=/index.tpl
The codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Federal Register (FR) - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
Federal Register(National Archives) -http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/
The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents

Reginfo --http://refinfo.gov
Find links to web sites with information on federal regulations. Trace the regulatory rulemaking process with the "Reg Map."

Supreme Court Opinions

United States Courts - http://www.uscourts.gov/
Information about courts, including the Supreme Court, district courts, and bankruptcy information and forms.

U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Courts - http://wsll.state.wi.us/fedlawgov.html

Historical Supreme Court Decisions - FedWorld/FLITE - http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm
The archive consists of over 7,407 Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to June 1975.

Supreme Court Decisions (Cornell's Legal Information Insitute) - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

Supreme Court Decisions (U.S. Supreme Court)--http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Forms see also Tax Forms

Wisconsin Circuit Court Forms - http://www.wicourts.gov/forms1/circuit.htm
Civil, Criminal, Probate, Small Claims, Divorce, and more.

Power of Attorney / Living Will  - Forms - http://www.dhfs.state.wi.us/forms/AdvDirectives/ADFormsPOA.htm
From the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.

Wisconsin State Law Library's Forms Page - http://wsll.state.wi.us/wiforms.html
Forms on all sorts of legal topics, including some forms specific to Wisconsin.

General

Delphion Intellectual Property Network (formerly IBM Patent Server) - http://www.delphion.com
MicroPatent - http://www.micropat.com
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - http://www.uspto.gov
All are excellent sources for patent searches, are easy to use, and require fees for full-text patent delivery.

Divorce see Madison Area Law Sites or Wisconsin Circuit Court forms

Everybody's Legal Glossary (Nolo) --http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm
Find "plain - English definitions of hundreds of legal terms, from the common to the bizarre."

Family Law in the Fifty States
The American Bar Association's summary of family law in the fifty states
with links to statutes of individual states.

FindLaw - http://www.findlaw.com
An award-winning site for legal information. Find a lawyer at the Findlaw/LawCrawler site.

Guide to Law Online - http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/
Guide to national and international law, from the Law Library of Congress.

Lawyer Locator, from Martindale-Hubbell - http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub
Find information about a lawyer or a firm. For Wisconsin lawyers, see also State Bar of Wisconsin Lawyer Search Engine.

Legal Information Institute - http://www.law.cornell.edu/
A service of the Cornell Law School for information on the U.S. Constitution; federal, state, and world laws; federal regulations; and federal and state court decisions.

Minnesota State Law Library: Other State/Supreme Court Law Libraries --http://www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us/osll.html
Find State and Supreme Court Law Libraries with their own web sites.

State Court Web Sites - http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html
Public access links to court records for states, produced by the National Center for State Courts.

The Virtual Chase: Teaching Legal Professionals How to Do Research --http://www.virtualchase.com/
Find information on public companies, legal resources, public records, people searches, and search engines.

Washlaw Legal Research on the Web - http://www.washlaw.edu/
A service of the Washburn School of Law, find court decisions and statutes for individual states.

Wisconsin

Codes and Ordinances for Wisconsin Towns and Cities - http://wsll.state.wi.us/ordinances.html

Corporations Home Page, Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions - http://www.wdfi.org/corporations/
Obtain registered agent and address information from the Corporate Registration Information Service, create a Wisconsin Limited Liability Corporation (LLC), and access other corporate registration forms.

Legislative Reference Bureau - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/
Access the Theobald Legislative Library catalog, the  Wisconsin Blue Book, legislative research bulletins, and more.

National Sex Offender Registry - http://wisconsindoc.familywatchdog.us/
The State of Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry in partnership with Family Watchdog, with information about FDA Drug and Product recalls as well.

Reseaching Legislative History in Wisconsin -http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lrb/pubs/wb/06wb10.pdf

Sources of Legal Information for the Wisconsin Attorney - http://library.law.wisc.edu/guides/bibliographies/legalinfo.htm
Information compiled by UW-Madison Law Library.

State Bar of Wisconsin - http://www.wisbar.org
Includes legal forms, a Lawyer Search Engine, and a separate site, Legal Explorer offers resources for the public.

Wisconsin Administrative Code - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/code.htm

Wisconsin Blue Book -- (digitalized 1853 to present)
Access the digitized version of the Wisconsin Blue Book from its beginning in 1853 to the present.

Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (formerly CCAP) - http://wcca.wicourts.gov/index.xsl
Find court cases for all counties except Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Court System - http://www.courts.state.wi.us

Wisconsin Courts - http://wsll.state.wi.us/wisco.html

Wisconsin State Legislature - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/

Wisconsin State Law Library - http://wilawlibrary.gov
Provides a wealth of legal information, from advice on general topics like debt or immigration to information and forms specific to the state of Wisconsin. Also offers legal research guides and an overview of the legal system and court organization. The Wisconsin State Law Library is open to the public and is a resource for all Wisconsin citizens.

Wisconsin State Statutes - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/stats.html
See also: Wisconsin Acts - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/2acts.html
(1969 to the present. Scanned copies of the Laws of Wisconsin available in searchable Folio Infobases and as Adobe Acrobat files).

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