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New FindLaw Newsletters Deliver Legal Documents Pertaining To Breaking News Stories
Top Legal Portal Expands Free Newsletter Offerings
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 16, 2001 — FindLaw (www.findlaw.com), the most highly trafficked legal Website, today announced new Breaking Documents and Weekly Documents newsletters, providing timely access to time-sensitive legal filings from high-profile cases.
E-mailed to subscribers the day news of major civil and criminal cases breaks, the Breaking Documents newsletter delivers motions, complaints, judicial opinions and more. Weekly Documents, which is e-mailed each Wednesday, summarizes the week’s significant legal documents. An expansion of FindLaw’s award-winning free legal information offerings, these newsletters provide lawyers, media professionals and the public with immediate access to official court documents, opinions and pleadings from civil and criminal proceedings of significant interest.
“FindLaw Legal News (news.findlaw.com) often is the first Web site to offer the full text of important legal documents and judicial opinions,” says Stacy Stern, co-founder of FindLaw. “These documents provide valuable insight into the legal process and are an important resource for understanding and following these stories. Moreover, links from news articles to the official legal documents offers a new dimension to legal news coverage and a unique opportunity to see the law in action.”
Breaking Documents and Weekly Documents are the latest editions to FindLaw’s expanding library of free legal newsletters — the largest and most comprehensive collection of web-based legal newsletters available. This list includes 17 daily and weekly topic newsletters, 21 daily opinion summaries from federal and state courts, and 14 weekly practice-specific opinion summaries. For more information, or to subscribe to these free newsletters visit (newsletters.findlaw.com).
FindLaw encourages other Web sites, including those of media organizations, to link to these legal documents, which also can be found at (news.findlaw.com/legalnews/documents).