There are few things that frustrate people more when starting a legal research project than hunting and pecking around the internet hoping to find legal websites that are helpful, useful and FREE. Believe me, I feel your pain. As a Law Librarian, I have spent countless hours, days, weeks, months scouring the Internet looking for legal websites that are helpful and useful and FREEto use.
HELPFUL: because the websites featured in this class are geared toward providing both primary (and sometimes secondary) authorities to help people find and understand the law (state and/or federal).
USEFUL: because, let's face it - there are millions of websites out in Internet Land that promise they contain information pertinent to your case (and then turn out to be nothing but a bunch of ads and empty promises). I know the websites I offer to students in this class are useful because I have used them time and again (and continue to use them) as they have proven to be helpful and useful to me and to those whom I have served in both the legal and non-legal communities.
FREE: because not everyone has the cold, hard cash to plunk down to hire an attorney. It's helpful, then, to find websites that are actually FREE. We're not talking about websites that ask for your name, address, email, phone number, birthday, etc (well, there is one of those), I'm talking about FREE as in you have free, unfettered access to the information found on these websites and you can download, print, or stare at to your heart's content forever and ever (or until they disappear - whichever comes first).
Topics covered in this class include FREElegal websites relating state and federal codes and regulations, FREE legal websites about local superior courts, FREE legal websites to help you locate an attorney in whatever area of practice you need help with, and FREE legal websites to help you locate primary and secondary authorities as well as general legal and business forms.
Yes, this class is that good (heck, it's great, if I don't say so myself).
Yes, you will learn a lot about where to find helpful, useful, and FREE legal websites.
No, you won't be wasting your time if you subscribe to this class.
Yes, it was a fun class to create.
