THE REFERENCE DESK

• US Supreme Court news
• beSpacific Law and Technology News.

• BreakingLegalNews.com
• Findlaw Legal News
• Jurist Legal News and Research.
• Law.com News & Information
• Current Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court The latest supreme court decisions, from Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute. Scroll to bottom to click on "Supreme Court Orders This Month."
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals News
• "In the News" at California Courts

• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations Can't interpret that abbreviation? Need an abbreviation for a reporter or secondary source? Look it up in this thorough index. You'll find abbreviations and dates of publication for both modern and historical titles.
• Commonly Used Terms Glossary of legal terms from the U.S. Courts web site.
• Cornell University Law Library Legal Research Engine
• Findlaw
• Internet Legal Resource Guide - Legal Forms Templates for legal forms of all types.
• Journal Finder From Washington & Lee University School of Law. Find the best source for retrieving a law journal article.
• Law School Symposia
• LawLink -- ABA Legal Research Jumpstation
• LexisONE News, forms, links, research tools. Registration required.
• LibrarySpot Links to specific kinds of libraries and reference tools.
• LLRX A free Web journal with many articles, links to news and current legal issues, much more.
• Martindale.com
• Most Cited Legal Periodicals
• National Directory of Expert Witnesses Online
• WEX "Welcome to Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia." From Cornell Law School.

• Merriam Webster Online
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bartleby.com A collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.
• Word Spy "Word Spy is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't 'stunt words' or 'sniglets,' but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources."

• The Elements of Style by William J. Strunk

• Newspaperindex.com ""We collect and maintain links only to newspapers and publications containing local, free and independent news from each country in the world...We only include websites with free public access that have a local editorial staff of independent journalists and in most cases a print version as well."
• NewsVoyager Search for newspapers by state, city or newspaper name.