Secondary Legal Sources

1. Lectric Law Library's Layperson's Lounge

http://www.lectlaw.com/lay.html

The 'Lectric Law Library collects and presents a vast array of legal resources, leavening the collection with a healthy dose of sarcastic humor. The Layperson's Lounge, one section of this site, provides info geared at non-lawyers on commonly encountered issues, including:

• --Dealing with the Legal System
• --Dealing with the LAWYER System
• --Wills, Estate Planning & the Like
• --Consumer Rights & Protection
• --Employment Issues
• --Information For Investors
• --Other Assorted Items -Flotsam & Jetsam on an Eclectic Multitude of Subjects

2. Cornell Legal Research Engine

http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/guides/researchengine.asp

This "custom Google" search engine provides "easy access to authoritative legal research guides on every subject." There are also links to a "New Student Survival Guide," "Legal Research Fundamentals," "U.S. Research Guides by Topic," and "Foreign & Int'l Research Guides."

3. Justia

http://www.justia.com/

Provides brief and informative articles on dozens of legal practice areas, with plain English explanations and links to additional Web resources. From the founder of FindLaw.

4. Emory Law School Megasite

http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/index.php?id=2565

A collection of links to hundreds of subject-specific pages on  five major free law megasites (Cornell LII,  FindLaw, Hieros Gamos, MegaLaw, and WashLaw Web). If you need an article on a particular topic, this chart will show you which of the megasites to visit.

5. Washlaw WEB

http://www.washlaw.edu/subject/

Washlaw (a service of Washburn University School of Law) strives to provide users with links to all known law-related materials on the Internet. Its subject index "includes links to all law specialty sites and is organized according to the 'section' breakdown for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)."

6. Cornell LII "Wex"

http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Category:Overview

Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/).

7. FindLaw

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/

Resources by practice area. Includes articles as well as links to resources like  Classifieds, Attorneys who specialize in the area,government agencies, laws and government documents, and related web sites.

8. Hieros Gamos

http://www.hg.org/practiceareas.html

Similar to FindLaw's index, HG provides links to articles as well as many other resources by topic.

9. MegaLaw

http://www.megalaw.com/top/

MegaLaw has over 230 law topics. Provides links to relevant cases, statutes, and related web sites.