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Hello, I'm looking for some kind of online library of legal documents
that I can use to reference when drafting things while working in a
corporate law firm. Our company has a database of previously written
documents but I'm looking for something a bit more broad in scope.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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andk.rdd@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm looking for some kind of online library of legal documents
that I can use to reference when drafting things while working in a
corporate law firm. Our company has a database of previously written
documents but I'm looking for something a bit more broad in scope.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
If you are willing to pay there are some - Westlaw and Lexis are the
largest ones with the most information (and the most expensive).
For free sites there's findlaw.com and lexisone.com.
Stu
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On Apr 23, 6:59 am, andk....@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I'm looking for some kind of online library of legal documents
that I can use to reference when drafting things while working in a
corporate law firm. Our company has a database of previously written
documents but I'm looking for something a bit more broad in scope.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Are you a lawyer? Frankly, you don't sound like one. Maybe you're
still a law student working as a part-time clerk.
How did you get to the point of drafting legal documents for a
corporate law firm if you have no clue what a form book is? And if
your corporate law firm doesn't have any except their database of
their own previously drafted forms, that may be just about all they
feel they need, which probably custom-fits their needs better than any
commercially published book or database.
For that matter, why do _you_ feel you need to reference something
other than the firm's own handmade "form book" (in either paper or
database form)? Have you discussed this with your bosses? What do
they say?
There may be published form books that can be accessed for free
online, but I don't know about any of them. They are almost sure to
not be freebies.. maybe your firm can buy you a CD or something, if
you have a positive aversion to paper and ink, but in either medium,
legal publications intended for professional use are likely to be
expensive (I'm not talking about mass-market stuff like the little-guy
self-help books Nolo Press and other publishers put out, but you
surely don't want to rely on that kind of source as guidance for a
corporate law firm).
if your firm doesn't want to invest in a decent law library, and/or a
decent online research service, it's not going to have much of a
future as a corporate law firm. But in the meantime, you can do your
job by hoofing down to the nearest law library -- your county
courthouse probably has a decent one, and probably includes form books
of the kind you need unless they are so esoteric that you would have
to buy them. Good luck,
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On Apr 24, 7:51 am, Stuart Bronstein <spamt...@lexregia.com> wrote:
andk....@gmail.com wrote:
If you are willing to pay there are some - Westlaw and Lexis are the
largest ones with the most information (and the most expensive).
For free sites there's findlaw.com and lexisone.com.
When OP said "legal documents" and referred to an internal firm
database, I assumed he was looking for something that would show him
how to draft complaints, motions, etc. of various kinds, i.e.a form
book, and not just caselaw research. Of course you're right if
that's what he's looking for., and in addition many states (he doesn't
say where he is, natch) have their recent published decisions
available online directly (and some official sites can also be
accessed thru Findlaw).
Perhaps I was also making an unwarranted assumption that if he worked
for a corporate law firm, he must have already heard about Lexis and
Westlaw and was looking for something else. Maybe not.
--
This posting is for discussion purposes, not professional advice.
Anything you post on this Newsgroup is public information.
I am not your lawyer, and you are not my client in any specific legal
matter.
For confidential professional advice, consult your own lawyer in a
private communication.
Mike Jacobs
LAW OFFICE OF W. MICHAEL JACOBS
10440 Little Patuxent Pkwy #300
Columbia, MD 21044
(tel) 410-740-5685 (fax) 410-740-4300
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