THE REFERENCE DESK

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

• CNN's Law Center
• Findlaw Legal News
• Headline Legal News from LexisOne.
• 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
• "Of Current Interest" at California Courts
• U.S. Law Schools News Brief

• 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.
• The Invisible Web The web site companion to the book The Invisible Web, by Chris Sherman and Gary Price. Explains the world of the "invisible web," the term for the plethora of databases containing information that is accessible by web users, but not by using general search engines. This book shows you what is accessible, what they contain, and how to access them. The web site also gives you access to these sites.
• 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
• Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse A fee-based service. "The purpose of TRAC is to provide the American people - and institutions of oversight such as Congress, news organizations, public interest groups, businesses, scholars and lawyers - with comprehensive information about federal staffing, spending, and the enforcement activities of the federal government." For Federal information, click here. For the Judges' Tool, click here.
• WEX "Welcome to Wex, a collaboratively built, freely available legal dictionary and encyclopedia." From Cornell Law School.

• Infomine Scholarly internet resource collections. A showcase of Internet/Web resources of relevance to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level.
• Search Engine Showdown Greg Notess' search engine reviews and comparisons.

• 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.