Westwood College Online Library: Paralegal Research Guide
Research Tools Requiring ID and Password
Westlaw ID provided during your first full term through graduation:
LexisNexis ID provided during the Legal Research course (PL120 or PL105):
- Lexis Main
- LexisNexis Paralegal Community
- See also, LexisNexis Academic, with extensive case law, legal research and statutes, via your campus online portal.
Free Legal Research Sites
- How Courts Work from the ABA
- Law Dictionary
- Law Library of Congress
- LexisOne a free content version of LexisNexis
- LLRX.com Law and technology resources for legal professionals
- Metaindex for U.S. Legal Research (GSU College of Law)
- Megalaw, forms and legal research
- Nolopedia, free online legal information from Nolo
- PACER, Public Acccess to Court Electronic Records
- PreCYdent legal search engine
- Public Library of Law
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Codes, Statutes, Rules and Legislation
- 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
Bluebook Citation Resources
Law and Paralegal Professional Associations
Legal News, Blogs and Media