Weblogs, blawgs, and other legal resources

New York Case Law

• New York Law Reporting Bureau
• Appellate Briefs- Appellate Division, Second Department
• Unified Court System
• Court of Appeals Decisions (Findlaw)
• AltLaw (Federal Cases)
• The Public Library of Law
• Feed for New York Court of Appeals Recent Decisions

U.S. Supreme Court

• ScotusBlog (Akin Gump sponsored weblawg that tracks daily goings on of United States Supreme Court)
• ScotusWiki (Companion site to ScotusBlog)
• Oyez (United States Supreme Court media, including briefs, videos and audio of oral arguments, background)
• The Curiae Project (provides briefs, records, and other relevant material of U.S. Supreme Court)

Federal District Court Filings

• District Court Filings and Docket by Justia.com
• Federal District Court Opinions and Orders by Justia.com

Court Documents

• JD Supra (JD Supra offers free access to a constantly expanding database of legal documents (filings, decisions, forms, articles)
• PreCYdent (open law source that also has a constantly expanding database of legal documents)

New York Laws

• FindLaw.com (New York Statutes)
• Justia.com (New York Statutes)
• Laws of New York (State of New York)
• New York Legislative Bills 2007-2008

NYCRR

• NYCRR on New York Secretary of State Site
• Unofficial New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (free access, powered by Westlaw)

Municipal Codes for New York

• New York Municipality websites (by name)
• New York Municipality websites (by county)
• E-Code Library (NY), from General Code, Rochester. Access to the municipal codes of hundreds of cities and townships in New York (like Chili) and other states.

Other New York Resource

• New York State Library
  Application for Library Card (here)

Legal Podcasts or “Plawdcasts”

• LegalTalkNetwork (podcasts based on legal issues)

Wiki Resources

• English language Wikipedia (should we use this at all for legal research?)
• Michael Scott from “The Office” weighs in on Wikipedia’s reliability
• Wex (collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia)
• Tax Almanac

Legal Meta-Sites

• LII/Legal Information Institute (excellent resource for New York law)
• FindLaw.com for Legal Professionals
• JD Supra
• Law.com
• ABA LawLink (a compendium of online links to governmental and other legal information)