Business Law has many specialty areas from contract law to human resources. While you don't need to be an expert in Business Law to successfully run a business having a foundational understanding of the law, "legalese", and legal resources will be helpful in your day to day operations and when you need to utilize the services of an attorney for some aspect of your business.
*Recommended*
EBSCO Business Database Group – searches several business and legal content related databases at once
Small Business Reference Center (EBSCO) – offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business topics and includes business videos, a help and advice section and details on how to create business plans
Search suggestions: Browse by Category > Business Areas > Legal Issues
Suggested titles > Employer's Legal Handbook / Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small
Search suggestions: "business law"
This series will help you identify in less "legalese" issues related to Civil Law
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An overview about The Rule of Law created by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
All Law (gateway to many legal Internet sites)
Cornell's Legal Information Institute (includes browseable U.S. Code)
DRAGNET: Search of Free Legal Databases (Custom Google search by NY Law School)
Duke Univ. School of Law Library (includes Reference Resources and Research Guides)
FindLaw - by Thomson Reuters (pages for the public & legal professionals, see Cases & Codes)
Georgetown University Law Library (library catalog, excellent Research Guides, other resources)
Google Scholar (option to search thousands of legal articles and court opinions)
GovInfo (authenticated U.S. gov docs - USC, Fed. Reg., Cong. Rec., court opinions, etc.)
HG.org (worldwide legal directories and other resources)
Justia (has searchable Federal court cases back to 1920's, USC, CFR, and more)
LawGuru.com (legal forms, dictionary, articles, asked and answered questions)
Laws Online (primarily has directories to legal professionals)
Leagle (Federal caselaw and state higher court opinion research)
Lectric Law Library Reference Room (how to's & basic primers on many topics)
Legal Engine Search (state legal forms, resources, search engine)
LLRX.com (free legal information publication on the Web with hundreds of articles)
Open Jurist (browse Federal case reporters, USC, U.S. Court directory)
Public Library of Law (PLOL.org - case searching, legal links & other resources; must register)
Quick Links and Sources to U.S. Court Opinions (LLSDC compiled)
USCourts.gov (official info on Federal judges, rules, forms, court links, etc. )
Washington University Law - Research Guides
Yale Law School Library - Avalon Project of historical docs
General Legal Research - Selected Commercial Sites
BloombergLaw (one stop searching of cases, codes, news, companies)
CALI.org - Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (hundreds of online courses - membership access)
Casetext (free case searching with Federal and state collections from the 1920's)
Court Case Finder (criminal and civil records from all states)
Docket Alarm (searches and exports Federal Court opinions & docket materials)
Fastcase (Federal & state caselaw & statute searching with unique identifiers)
HeinOnline (case law powered by Fastcase, USC, Fed. Reg, Cong. Rec., law journals, etc.)
LexisNexis (huge quantity of Federal & State legal, news, public record, & secondary source files)
Lex Machina (legal research analytics on IP litigation)
NationalLawLibrary (ItIsLaw.com - Federal & state caselaw, statutes)
Neota Logic (Q&A legal expertise and analysis at Internet speed)
PACER (official U.S. court dockets & docs, court links, case locator, court map/site links)
PacerPro (U.S. court docket search & retrieval)
Ravel Law (text, analytic case mapping, and analyses, a LexisNexis co.)
Regscan (Federal & state regulations & reg compliance news monitor)
TheLaw.net (Federal & state caselaw, statutes, regs, rules, forms, news)
VersusLaw (Federal & state caselaw, statutes, has guest registration)
Westlaw (huge quantity of Federal & state legal, news, public record, & secondary source files)
Compiled and maintained by Rick McKinney,retired Federal law librarian, Washington, D.C.
Please email your questions or comments to the Legislative SIS.
Last updated on May 14, 2020