Free Internet Research Tools

From our research of the web for your research of the law…and all free!

http://litilaw.lexbe.com/: Lexbe describes their site as a "free collection of over 900 recent legal articles of interest to litigators and related legal professionals. All articles are full-text, written by lawyers and have been published as part of continuing legal education (CLE) seminars, in legal journals, or are of similar quality."

http://www.lexisweb.com (beta): More targeted search on legal topics than Google and currently offered free, Lexisweb provides very fast, very thorough results, i.e. 23,515 results found for "Ohio custody" in 0.2477 seconds. For those with a Lexis-Nexis account, you can dig deeper into particular sources.

http://quest.law.com/Search/: Quest is another legally-targeted search engine but seemingly not as thorough and not as targeted as Lexisweb (above). My same search for "Ohio Custody" on Quest revealed only 1,800 results and many of them came up only because they contained the word "Ohio," not because they had anything to do with the "Custody" part of my search entry.

http://www.elawexchange.com/: Robert Ambrogi says of this site "A standout feature of this free site is a database of e-discovery case law and rules from all 50 states. Enter a keyword and select a state to find the applicable entries, or simply select a state to find all cases from that jurisdiction."

For history buffs, Google Earth has a very cool new feature, allowing visitors to explore ancient Rome virtually. The article explaining it from BBC.com is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7725560.stm

The actual link to Google Earth’s virtual ancient Rome is here: http://earth.google.com/rome/.

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