Westwood College Online Library
Paralegal Resources
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- Westlaw access is provided during your first full term through graduation.
- Westlaw Main
- Westlaw Paralegal Portal offers additional training and services
- LexisNexis access is provided during the term you take Legal Research (PL120 or PL105).
- Lexis Main
- LexisNexis Paralegal Community
- LexisOne, a resource for small firms, offers some free content
- LexisNexis Academic, a library research database available to every Westwood student, can be accessed by logging into the online library via your campus Edline portal or the online eCollege portal. This database includes extensive legal case law and statutes.
- Law Library of Congress
- LLRX.com Law and technology resources for legal professionals
- Metaindex for U.S. Legal Research (GSU College of Law)
- Megalaw, forms and legal research
- PACER, Public Acccess to Court Electronic Records
- PreCYdent legal search engine
- Public Library of Law
- Federal Rulemaking, including the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and related codes
- Federal Rules of Civil Procedure from Cornell Law School, easy to read format
- GPO Access, the Government Printing Office, links to the Supreme Court, Code of Federal Regulations, US Code, etc.
- Search the U.S. Code
- State Government Information Finder from the Library of Congress
- Full-text state statutes and legislation on the Internet
- See also, US Government resources
- How Courts Work from the ABA
- How Our Laws Are Made
- Law Dictionary
- Nolopedia, free online legal information from Nolo
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation, a tutorial from Cornell Law School
- Introduction to Bluebooking, a pdf file from Georgetown University Law Center
- Bluebook (18th Ed.) Citation examples, a handy one-page PDF file
- Common Bluebook Citation errors
- A Bluebook Guide for Law Students, guidance on citing various kinds of legal documents
- Citing Cases
- Citing Statutes
- Citing Articles
- Citing Books and Treatises
- Citing Electronic Resources
- FAQ about Bluebook citations
- American Bar Association
- American Alliance of Paralegals
- International Paralegal Management Association
- Know, a magazine for paralegals
- Legal Assistant Today
- National Association of Legal Asisstants
- National Federation of Paralegal Associations
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