Subject Index Finding Illinois Law

A look at state agency Web sites that offer the agency's administrative decisions and more.

Debate transcripts and more are on the General Assembly's Web site.

They can be hard to come by online - here's where to find them.

A summary of ISBA's free research offering.

Is print research disappearing in the age of Google?

It's now an excellent starting point for research.

Much of the primary federal law once available only for a fee is now free on the Web.

A look at some leading one-stop-shopping centers of legal research. 

Internet search engines are important research tools, but take care to learn their limitations.

The net is best used as a compliment to, not replacement for, traditional sources of legal information.

There's plenty of material about Illinois ethics law on the 'Net, much of it freely available

A necessary first step in legal research is to identify what an answer might look like and where one might find it.

The Illinois Administrative Code is on the Net.

The 80/20 rule has implications for how you do–and pay for–legal research.

The Big Two legal data providers offer more affordable options than ever.

Your familiar print resources are probably online, where they're more powerful than ever.

The question isn't whether to use books, it's how.

More and more information is available on state agency Web sites, much of it useful to lawyers and – best of all – free.

Someone else's brief can serve as the starting point; maybe even the foundation; for yours. But how do you find one? Here are some possibilities.

Here's review of the first new Illinois legal research tome in well over a decade.

Have we reached the point that using print citators to track the subsequent treatment of a case begs a malpractice suit?

Sometimes research still works best with books, and sometimes it works better on the computer. We're still trying to figure out why and when.

West Group and LexisNexis both offer free online research services that, while much more modest than Lexis and Westlaw, are well worth visiting.

Is legal research a science grounded in precise measurements or is it an art based on subjective editorial judgments? And does it matter?

Jury instructions aren't hard to find in print, but you'll have less luck searching online.

The rise of electronic sources has changed legal research forever, and it may be changing the nature of law itself.

Thanks to the General Assembly's Web site, researching recent legislative history is easier than ever. Here's a step-by-step guide.

Some leading litigation-related online resources.

Some leading litigation-related online resources.

Here are some of the helpful Internet resources; most of them free; for corporate and securities lawyers.