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Resources
Understanding Federal and State Courts
Free Legal Writing Exercises
http://sfruehwald.com/ex.htm
Computer and
Internet Based Research
www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/guides/Wexis1.ppt
www1.law.umkc.edu/Faculty/callister/Guides/Wexis2.ppt
Blogs
http://thinklikealawyer.wordpress.com/
Essays and
Writing Contests
Research Links
Get Real About Research and Writing
Essays and Writing
Contests for Law Students
UMKC School of Law Federal Estate Planning Symposium Prize
search for "legal
writing contest"
Research Links
E-Mail & Phone Directories
Government Info & Forms
Grammar Sites
Law Directories
Legal Research Sites
Legal Writing Sites
Newspapers
Other Information
Persuasion
E-Mail & Phone Directories
AT&T AnyWho -
www.tollfree.att.net
Four11 Directory Services -
www.four11.com
InfoSpace -
www.infospace.com
SuperpagesYellow and White Pages -
www.superpages.com
Switchboard Home Page -
www.switchboard.com/
Temple University Directory -
directory.temple.edu/search
WhoWhere -
www.whowhere.comm
Government Info & Forms
Bureau of Labor Statistics -
www.bls.gov
Commerce Dept. FedWorld -
www.fedworld.gov
Internal Revenue Service -
www.irs.gov
Government Forms - Links for Download Sites -
www.forms.gov
Library of Congress Home Page -
www.loc.gov
Grammar Sites
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) -
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Guide to Grammar Writing -
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
Lawyer Directories
Lawyers
Directory from Martindale -
www.martindale.com
Legal Research Sites
Bibliographic Formats for Citing Electronic Information -
www.ipl.org/div/farq/netciteFARQ.html
Google University Search -
www.google.com/options/universities.html
Hein-On-Line -
www.heinonline.org
Internet Legal Resource Group -
www.ilrg.com
Legal Information Institute -
www.law.cornell.edu
Legal Publishers -
www.aallnet.org/committee/criv/resources/tools/list
Lexis-Nexis -
www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool
US Supreme Court Argument Transcripts -
www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts.aspx
US Supreme Court Database -- Oyez Project -
www.oyez.org
US Supreme Court -
www.supremecourtus.gov
West Group Products Picture Directory -
http://lawschool.westlaw.com/faculty/digpic.asp
Westlaw.com -
www.lawschool.westlaw.com
WWW Virtual Library- Law -
http://vlib.org/Law
Touro Law Center Law Library -
www.tourolaw.edu/library
New York Court Central -
http://nycourts.law.com
Legal Research Guides -
www.ll.georgetown.edu/research
Legal Research Tutorials -
www.ll.georgetown.edu/tutorials/index.cfm
Berring on Legal Research Podcasts -
www.berringonlegalresearch.com/podcast.asp
FindLaw for Legal Professionals -
www.findlaw.com (choose "Legal Professionals" tab)
Legal Research Links - www.ualr.edu/cmbarger/Research.htm
(Prof. Colleen Barger)
Circuit Splits Blog -
www.oyez.org
Inter Alia: Internet Research Weblog -
www.inter-alia.net
State Court Web Sites -
www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/info_court_web_sites.html
Federal Court Web Sites -
www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks
THOMAS: Library of Congress Online -
http://thomas.loc.gov
Executive Branch Online -
www.whitehouse.gov/government/exec.html
United States Census Bureau -
www.census.gov
Questia (great online general library; requires paid
membership) -
www.questia.com
Law.com Legal Dictionary -
http://dictionary.law.com
Quicklaw America -
www.rocketlawyer.com
Legal Writing Sites
Online Legal Writing Exercises -
www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker
Legal Writing in Plain English -
http://books.google.com/books?id=reZf9nzoiSQC (Bryan Garner)
Legal Writing in Plain English Exercises -
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/garner (Bryan Garner)
the (new) legal writer -- (a blog of resources for and about
legal writing) -
http://raymondpward.typepad.com/newlegalwriter
A blog and resources -
http://legalwriting.net
LawProse Video Archive -- (Bryan Garner's collection of judge
interviews discussing writing skills) -
www.lawprose.org/interviews/judges_lawyers_writers_on_writing.php
Newspapers
Chronicle of Higher Education -
http://chronicle.com
Los Angeles Times -
www.latimes.com
New York Times -
www.nytimes.com
Wall Street Journal -
www.wsj.com
Washington Post -
www.washingtonpost.com
Other Information
ACCRA Cost of Living Index -
www.coli.org
Bartleby.com Great Books Online -
www.bartleby.com
Britannica.com -
www.britannica.com
CataList, catalog of LISTSERV lists -
www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
CompletePlanet Database Search -
www.completeplanet.com
ConsumerREVIEW.com -
www.consumerreview.com
Hoaxkill -
www.hoaxkill.com
Infomine Scholarly Internet Resource Collections -
http://infomine.ucr.edu
Library of Congress Online Catalogs -
http://catalog.loc.gov
Mayer Brown, Rowe & Maw's appellate practice -
www.appellate.net/articles
Pollen.com -
www.pollen.com/Pollen.com.asp
ScamBusters -
www.scambusters.com/index.html
Search Systems (Public Records) -
www.publicrecords.searchsystems.net
The Quotations Page -
www.quotationspage.com
The Smoking Gun -
www.thesmokinggun.com
Thomas Register -
www.thomasnet.com
Urban Legends and Folklore -
http://urbanlegends.about.com
Urban Legends Reference Pages -
www.snopes2.com
FindLaw - Law Schools A-Z -
www.findlaw.com/02lawschools/fulllist.html
JURIST -
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu
National Conference of Bar Examiners -
http://www.ncbex.org
Plagiarism.org -
www.plagiarism.org
Scribes -
www.scribes.org
Law Student's Guide to Good Writing -
www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LWTA.htm
Persuasion
Visual Rhetoric (Painting with Print by Ruth Anne Robbins) -
www.ca7.uscourts.gov/Rules/Painting_with_Print.pdf
The Three Appeals -
www.public.asu.edu/~macalla/logosethospathos.html
Logos -
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/logos.htm
Pathos -
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/pathos.htm
Ethos -
http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/ethos.htm
Letter from a Birminghm Jail with Rhetorical Analysis -
http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner/writing/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail.doc
American Rhetoric (a collection of speeches, movie clips, audio
files) -
www.americanrhetoric.com
State Appellate Court Arguments Online (some in both audio and
video formats) -
www.ncsconline.org/WC/CourTopics/StateLinks.asp?id=39&topic=IntCts
Oyez: Supreme Court Media (arguments and briefs online) -
www.oyez.org
A Study in Appellate Advocacy
An examination of brief writing through a study of
the briefs in the Texas v. Johnson flag burning case
(from Duke University School of Law)
Other Law
Schools' Web Sites for Legal Writing
"Legal writing professors are
on the Web! Visit and learn from legal writing sites around the
globe. In some instances, there are links for both the law school
and for individual professors."
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