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Federal

• Codes
  United States Code (USC)
  Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
  Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) 
  U.S. Tax Code (Title 26) 

• Cases
  Federal Courts Finder
  Landmark Supreme Court Cases
  Top 1000 Cases Most Cited by the US Supreme Court 
  United States 6th Circuit 
  
  
• Other Federal Sources
  Department of Justice
  The United States Supreme Court 
  FBI: FOIA Requests
  Federal Judicial Center
  Federal Register 
  First Amendment Center
  How our Laws are Made
  Supreme Court Web Guide
  

Ohio

• Codes
  City of Painesville Code
  Ohio Revised Code (ORC)
  Ohio Administrative Code (OAC)
  
  
• Cases
  Ohio Supreme Court Decisions
   
  
• Ohio Information
  GovEngine: Ohio
  Lake County Common Pleas Court
  Lake County, Ohio USA
  Painesville Municipal Court
  State of Ohio Web Page 

Other States

Governing.com An online journal containing state and local government news.
LexisOne State Resource Center 

Comprehensive Legal Web Sites

ASIL: Electronic Resources for International Law
EURLex: A Portal to European Union Law
Europa: Gateway to to the European Union
Global Legal Information Network
Juris International: International Law and Comparative Law
LawSource: American Law Sources Online 
Legal and Technology Sources 
Nations of the World
Nolo.com 
Cornell School of Law 
Georgetown University 

Legal Information by Subject

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility-Ethics 
Bitlaw
CrimeSpider
Cyberlaw Encyclopedia
Death Penalty Information Center
EcoLex: A Gateway to Environmental Law
Employment Law Memo
Equine Law and Horsemanship Safety
Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law: WWW and Internet Resources
Lexmercatoria
Litigator's Internet Resource Guide: Rules of Court 
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NATLEX
Officer.com
SEARCH: The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics
SexCriminals.com
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Women's Legal History Biography Project
Visalaw: Immigration Law Portal 

Search Engines/Search Directories

Findlaw.com
Internet Law Library at Pritchard Law Webs
Internet Legal Resource Group
Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX) 
LegalEngine 
Special Forces Search Engine
Virtual Chase 

Law Reviews/Journals/News

American Lawyer Media's Law.com
BeSpacific
FindLaw Legal News 
FindLaw Law Reviews
Forensic Science Communications: Search the FBI Laboratory
Gongwer News Service-Ohio
Harvard Law Review
Headline Legal News: LexisOne
International Journal of Not-For-Profit Law
Jurist's Paperchase
Law.com Daily Legal Newswire
Law Reviews Online
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
Writ 

Forms

Findlaw: Court Forms 
Internet Legal Resource Group: Forms Archive 
IRS Forms
LLRX: Foreign and Transnational Legal Forms

Dictionaries

Everybody's Legal Dictionary (NOLO)
Jurist: Legal Dictionaries
Law.com Law Dictionary
One L Dictionary (Harvard Law School Library)

Guides/Directories

Basic Legal Citation
Chambers USA
CopSeek
Zimmerman's Research Guide

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Law School Directories:
Association of American World Directory of Law Schools
Hieros Gamos Law Schools Directory 

Professional Organizations 

American Bar Association
Association of Legal Administrators 
Lake County Bar Association 
National Association of Legal Assistants 
National Federation of Paralegal Associations  

Libraries

Catalog of US Government Publications 
Law Library of Congress