Legal Information Center
Legal Search Engines
Findlaw's
Lawcrawler
The premiere free legal search engine is powered by
Google which returns web pages that contain all the
words in your query, refining or narrowing your search
is as simple as adding more words to the search terms
you have already entered. The site also includes filters
set up to search the US government, every US state,
the major US Government agencies and nearly every US
law school.
LawGuru
From here you can search on more than 500 legal search
engines and tools. A drop-down menu provides selection
of the name of the engine you want to search, then click
the "Go there!" button and the search form for that
engine will appear here. Simple. The list is sorted
alphabetically. We have tried to include searchable
resources for every state, including cases, court opinions,
codes, statutes, bills and more, whenever possible.
Federal resources can generally be found alphabetically.
There is a lot more.
Internet
Legal Resource Guide
One of the most distinguishing features of the ILRG
is its highly efficient, customly programmed search
engine. When one enters a search term or terms into
the ILRG search box, the ILRG will return the URLs from
its database of 3100+ web sites that match the specified
key words. Of course, titles of pages local to the ILRG
will be returned, too, but they are supplemented with
the URLs contained within each page that match your
query parameters. ILRG's Intelligent URL "Search and
Extract" system saves you the time of having to go to
each ILRG page and read every single word on it, just
to find one link. With the unique ILRG search engine,
finding the information you need is not unnecessarily
complicated. The average search is completed in 8-10
seconds. Results are categorized and show the search
terms in context.
Law.com
The advanced search option includes some unique ways
to structure a search. 'Interest area' may be specified
as professional, student, business, or public. 'Practice
area' options include: corporate law, employment law,
intellectual property, litigation or technology. 'Information
types' are: news, commentary, practice tools, decisions,
profiles, seminars or resources. The researcher is given
a variety of display options covering titles and/or
summaries and quantity per page.
LLRX.com
The search is of the content of the site, so results
may seem small, but the quality of the resources on
this site are excellent. Results may be sorted by date.
LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to
providing legal professionals with the most up-to-date
information on a wide range of Internet legal research
and technology-related issues.
LawyerExpress
The advanced search option provides the researcher with
a meta-search screen that will search all, or selected
preferences of, Infoseeek, Excite, HotBot, AltaVista,
Lycos, Raging Search, Yahoo, and DirectHit. The search
results are displayed in "clusters," not by search engine,
but by phraseology of the search terms. Also includes
a list of other legal search engines.
Law
Research.com
Use this form to search LawResearch's "Just The Law
Links" with an index of over 500,000 HYPER-LINKED legal
resources. Search specific words or combinations of
words by using "and" "or" "but" between each word searched
for. The search engine will display best matches first
and each listed item is hyper-link to that resource.
Phrase searching is not available, but the results display
a good cross section of source types.
Meta-Index
or U.S. Legal Research
'Fill-in-the-blank' searching for Federal judicial resources
and Congressional materials. A convenient location when
searching Federal materials. Where possible, the search
options include citation searching. Each input area
identifies the resource being searched.
WashLaw
WEB
'Fill-in-the-blank' searching for Federal Judicial,
Congressional, regulatory materials as well as state
primary materials and city codes. The researcher may
conduct the search in the Circuit or may choose to link
directly to the individual lower court or Circuit Court
site. Also includes a set of links to other legal search
engines.
Yahoo!
Government > Law
The directory approach of Yahoo! which includes its
search utility provides an easy to use alternative to
an unstructured search engine. The 'Categories' are
divided into types of law as well as traditional directory
segments. 'Site Listings' are divided into "Most Popular"
and "Alphabetical."
FirstGov
FirstGov is the only official U.S. Government portal
to 30 million pages of government information, services,
and online transactions. The site offers a powerful
search engine that searches every word of every U.S.
government document in a quarter of a second or less.
FirstGov also features a topical index, online transactions,
links to state and local government, options to contact
your government, and other tools so the researcher doesn't
have to know the name of the government agency to get
the information needed.
GPO
Access
A search utility for Federal resources including: legislative
materials, executive documents, judicial materials,
and regulatory documents, including GAO reports and
decisions.