Remember that even the best search engines and directories are incomplete, so try more than one search engine/directory. For business research, consult our list of Internet Resources for Corporate Lawyers.

• All Law
  All Law is a large, comprehensive site with links to legal resources all over the web.
• American Law Sources On-Line
  ALSO provides a comprehensive collection of links to free sources of law on the Internet, organized by jurisdiction.
• Catalaw
  CataLaw is an index of other indexes, or a "metaindex." In other words, it is a catalog of catalogs of law on the Internet -- hence its name. Each page within CataLaw lists hyperlinks to all sub-pages within all other indexes pertinent to a single legal subject
  
• Cornell's Legal Information Institute
  Indexes by topic and source, Supreme Court, New York court opinions, and much more. LII has pioneered many projects for distributing legal information via the Internet and has mounted materials such as the UCC, US Code, and Uniform Laws.
• Counsel Quest
  Arranged n a tree structure that users of Microsoft Windows will find familiar, Counsel Quest provides links to hundreds of Web-based legal resources.
• Emory
• FindLaw
  Huge collection of links to legal materials,everything from court opinions to consultants, and well maintained. Features LawCrawler, a sophisticated legal site search engine and full text searching of law journals on the Web.
• Hieros Gamos
  From Lex Mundi, an association of 133 firms worldwide, this is a truly international site with many links to foreign and international law firms, law schools, and legal materials. Textual versions of the site are in English, German, Spanish , French and Italian.
• Internet Law Library
  Maintained by Pritchard Law Webs, this site is fully searchable. The ILL is one of the most complete directories of online law on the web, with links to almost five thousand federal, state, foreign and international law sites (mainly governmental materials) originally compiled by the House of Representatives Law Library, now maintained by several different organizations. Alternate sites include:
  Chicago-KentMenu driven, not searchable.
  Current Legal ResourcesMenu driven, not searchable.
  
• Internet Legal Resource Guide
  A full range of links to law resources with a law student focus. Includes course outlines, study abroad and links to legal forms.
• Katsuey's Legal Links
  This self-described "mega site for attorneys" has a wealth of links, broken down by legal category as well as ethics rules, e-zines and law reviews, and other online resources.
• Kuesterlaw-- The Technology Law Resource
  Intended to be the most comprehensive resource on the Internet for information related to Technology Law, especially including Intellectual Property law.
• Law and Politics: Internet Guide
  A useful site that contains a variety of legal research links, including sites with researching tips for 1Ls. It also includes links to international and political resources.
• LawGuru
  An excellent site with a wide variety of resources. This site is maintained and regularly updated by an LA law firm. It has info on several practice areas, a BBS for legal Q&A (with over 230 attorneys and 3,000 topics), a subscription service for a variety of legal listservs, a legal search engine, and more.
• Law Journal Extra
  The largest commercial web site for lawyers with news, practice area links, jobs, technology updates, law firm information and a searchable index of US Circuit Court opinions. A very diverse and rich site from the publishers of National Law Journal.
  
• Law Library Resource Guide ("LLRX")
  LLRX is a sort of Internet newsletter with a focus on legal research, technology and management. Completely free, it is updated twice a month with insightful feature articles and regular columns. Contributors include law librarians, attorneys and legal technology consultants.
• 'Lectric Law Library
  An irreverent and funny approach to legal research on the web.
• Rominger Legal Research Page
  An attractive site, divided into several categories by subject and jurisdiction. Also includes links to non-legal research materials and several search engines. A good starting point.
• Virtual Chase
  This guide to legal resources on the Internet features a thorough collection of links with annotations. Includes legal and non-legal research guides and resources.
• WashLaw WEB
  From Washburn University, Topeka School of Law, the original indexer of the Web for law materials, an extensive collection of law and law-related links. Unique organization which includes specific topics with good descriptions of what you will find when you link to sites listed.
  
• WWW Virtual Library: Law
  The WWW Virtual Library is a distributed subject index maintained by several hundred different sites around the world. Each site has taken responsibility to collect information about Internet resources in its particular subject area.
• The World List
  Non-U.S. law related resources.
• Yahoo: Law
  From one of the most well known organizers of Web sites, this list is less selective about what is listed so you'll find the off-beat and unreliable along with the best.

• Altavista
  One of the most comprehensive indexes to the Web, but relevancy ranking can be poor. Allows you to do Boolean and field searching.
• BUBL LINK Catalogue of Selected Internet Resources
• Excite
  Allows "concept searching," which automatically searches for synonyms of search terms.
• Google
  The relevancy of the results from this search engine is amazing.
• GO Network (Infoseek)
  Good relvancy ranking.
• Hotbot
  Hotbot offers many searching options and lets you restrict searches in various ways, but it is slow to load.
• Infomine: Scholarly Resource
  Searchable collection of scholarly web resources in Government, Medicine, Biology & Agriculture, Social Sciences & Humanities, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Math, and much more.
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Lycos
• MEDLINE
• MSLawyers list of Internet Search Engines
• Northern Light
  Winner of PC Magazine's Best Search Engine of the Year for 1998. Northern Light is a combination search engine/document delivery service. In addition to searching the web, Northern Light searches its own database. Northern Light offers many searching options and organizes your search results into "folders."
• Search.com
  This is a great resource for finding a subject specific search engine.
• Yahoo

• Ask Jeeves
  This search engine takes your query in natural language, then searches its own database as well as several of the major search engines.
• DogPile
  Metasearch of 13 WWW Search engines, 6 Usenet sources, and 2 FTP archives
• MetaCrawler
  Multi-Web Search of 6 major sites.
  This site received the PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award in the Metasearch category.
• SavvySearch

• Lycos Top 5% Sites
• Magellan Internet Guide
• Search Engines Compared: 1999 Update
• Yahoo Internet Life Reviews

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