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Databases
EBSCOhost includes thousands of indexed magazines, many full-text, for over fifteen years. Magazine coverage ranges from the popular to the academic.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Over twenty titles of popular multi-volume reference sets including Business Plans Handbook.
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Access popular multi-volume reference books, including Business Plans Handbook; Encyclopedia of Education; Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law; Reference Guide to World Literature; Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice; and more.
Search a wealth of news, company and financial information, and legal research sources.
Download audiobooks, eBooks, music and videos directly to your computer or for use with a variety of devices. Fiction and nonfiction are included, and many popular titles are available.
Web Sites
Federal | Regulations | Supreme Court Opinions | Forms | General | Wisconsin | Madison Area Law Sites
Federal
The permament collection of all laws and resoultions enacted in each session of the Congress.
Codification of general and public laws of the United States
Regulations
The codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents
Find links to web sites with information on federal regulations. Trace the regulatory rulemaking process with the "Reg Map."
Supreme Court Opinions
The archive consists of over 7,407 Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to June 1975.
Information about courts, including the Supreme Court, district courts, and bankruptcy information and forms.
Forms
From the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.
Forms on all sorts of legal topics, including some forms specific to Wisconsin.
General
Find "plain - English definitions of hundreds of legal terms, from the common to the bizarre."
The American Bar Association's summary of family law in the fifty states with links to statutes of individual states.
Find information about a lawyer or a firm. For Wisconsin lawyers, see also State Bar of Wisconsin Lawyer Search Engine.
Find State and Supreme Court Law Libraries with their own web sites.
The State of Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry in partnership with Family Watchdog, with information about FDA Drug and Product recalls as well.
Public access links to court records for states, produced by the National Center for State Courts.
All are excellent sources for patent searches, are easy to use, and require fees for full-text patent delivery.
Find information on public companies, legal resources, public records, people searches, and search engines.
A service of the Washburn School of Law, find court decisions and statutes for individual states.
Wisconsin
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.
Access the Theobald Legislative Library catalog, the Wisconsin Blue Book, legislative research bulletins, and more.
From the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.
Includes legal forms, a Lawyer Search Engine, and a separate site, Legal Explorer offers resources for the public.
Access the digitized version of the Wisconsin Blue Book from its beginning in 1853 to the present.
Civil, Criminal, Probate, Small Claims, Divorce, and more. Many of these forms are used in the City of Madison and Dane County.
Municipal courts, circuit courts, court of appeals, and the Supreme Court.
See also the Self Help Law Center.
Forms on all sorts of legal topics, including some forms specific to Wisconsin.
See also: Wisconsin Acts - http://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/2acts.html
(1955-56 to the present. Scanned copies of the Laws of Wisconsin available in searchable Folio Infobases and as Adobe Acrobat files).
