Company Background
FindLaw is the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for lawyers, businesses, students and individuals. FindLaw began in 1995 and in January 2001 became part of West Group, the foremost provider of e-information and solutions to the U.S. legal market. While FindLaw continues to operate as an independent division, this strategic alliance has enabled a rapid expansion of the number and variety of free offerings, as well as the creation of new, more powerful services.
FindLaw Features
The FindLaw® Guide: Comprehensive guide to legal information including more than 50,000 human-edited site listings (with editorial descriptions) in more than 30 practice areas, as well as state-specific, federal and international materials. FindLaw facilitates access to online codes and case law, legal forms, legal publishers, legal associations, law schools and law reviews, legal experts and continuing legal education courses. FindLaw's channels for business and the public help non-lawyers navigate the Web for legal information and services.
The LawCrawler®: Full-text Web search engine powered by Google and geared specifically for legal research.
FindLaw Cases and Codes: Free, daily updated case law, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893, California Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions back to 1934 (with citations and internal page numbers), recent U.S. Circuit Court and other state court decisions and federal and state codes.
FindLaw Newsletters and Opinion Summaries: Over 50 free email newsletters, including daily opinion summaries, legal headlines and topical newsletters.
Legal News: Updated throughout the day and night and covering a range of legal topics.
West Legal Directory: Searchable database with more than one million lawyer and law firm listings.
Thomson Legal Record: A unique research tool, combining an attorney's litigation history on Westlaw with the attorney's profile on FindLaw. It provides a simple, efficient, fully documented resource for legal and corporate professionals seeking experienced litigators and a verifiable basis for decision-making.
FindLaw Legal Market Center: A searchable directory of businesses that provide a broad range of products and services to the legal community. Services and products listed include expert witnesses, legal technology products, process servers, legal investigators, mediators, couriers, paralegals, and court reporters.
FindLaw Library: Full-text searchable compendium of thousands of documents covering more than 200 topics and published by prominent law firms, bar associations, legal publishers, and the federal government.
FindLaw's Career Center: The most complete online legal career center, with law firm salary charts, legal job listings, personalized legal job placement services and legal discussion forums. If you’re looking to hire, FindLaw Careers lets you reach the largest audience of legal professionals on the Internet. If you’re looking to advance your career, you can review our law firm profiles, salary charts and job listings, which are searchable by location, job type and practice area.
MY FindLaw: Free desktop feature that creates a customized page of FindLaw's content and service offerings.
FindLaw LegalMinds: Virtual legal community including mailing list archives and message boards.
FindLaw's Court Forms: Free access to nearly 8,000 forms from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts as well as state courts. Available forms include civil and criminal subpoenas, summonses, complaints, affidavits and schedules.
FindLaw's 'Writ': Online legal magazine offering readers penetrating legal commentary from leading lawyers, scholars and writers, along with a provocative, entertaining look at law and the legal world.
FindLaw For The Public: Thousands of articles and resources in scores of categories to help the public with a wide range of legal issues, from bankruptcy to landlord/tenant law to selecting a lawyer.
FindLaw Supreme Court Center (Constitutional Law Center): An educational resource site focusing on the United States Constitution and its impact on society. The Center's collections include historic documents, biographies of Supreme Court justices and founding fathers, landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases as well as a searchable database of decisions back to 1893.
FindLaw Small Business Center: Includes essential information on starting, financing, managing and marketing a business, including step-by-step checklists, model business plans, legal and other business forms and documents and the latest legal and business news.
FindLaw Business Contracts: Searchable collection of legal agreements between today's hottest companies.
FindLaw Legal Technology Center: Current personal, business and legal technology news. Includes articles, press releases, white papers, and more.
FindLaw Office: A suite of Web-based practice applications, including document management, Web site development and Web-based email.
FindLaw Sports: Daily news on legal issues in sports, ranging from drug use to college recruiting violations, and special features and analyses on sports and the law.
FindLaw Entertainment: Provides legal entertainment news, an entertainment law guide, an entertainment case law library, legal entertainment media guides and opinion polls.
FindLaw Lawyer Marketing: In-depth legal marketing information, including marketing articles, product information, newsletters and more.
University Law Review Project: Full-text search capability for Internet law review articles and mailing lists of article abstracts. ULRP is run by FindLaw and Stanford University and sponsored by the Coalition of Online Journals and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
Other Services: FindLaw's additional resources and services include an online legal dictionary and online bookstore.
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