The "Digital Age" has revolutionized the way in which we conduct legal research. The typical law firm library contains much fewer volumes than in the past due to the abundance of electronic sources for legal research. Paid computer based legal research services are only a starting point as many of the services that used to be available exclusively through paid services, are now available for free, or for substantially reduced cost on the Internet. Now, knowing what you can get for free, can substantially reduce the costs you incur with paid services, and ultimately increase your bottom line in the process.

The Internet has also brought us more centralized investigative tools, that again, were once available only through experienced investigators or paid services. Today, paralegals and law clerks and quickly locate information that once would have involved the hiring of specially trained consultants, making such services a profit center for the firm, instead of a cost to be passed on to the client.

Changes in the way we think about legal research has also allowed us to leverage the ability to outsource more legal research, and brief writing tasks, and to do so efficiently, and with confidence in the quality of the end product. This means smaller law firms can now increase the quality of the support they get through the proper use of services that specialize in conducting legal research.

This page will alert you to ways that the Internet can serve your research and investigative needs, most of the time for free, or for a small fraction of what you have traditionally paid for such services in the past.

• Findlaw Law Crawler
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• United States Code
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Jurist
• Law Research
• Legal Research Using the Internet
• TheLaw.net
• State Law
• Guide to Treaty Research
• Who is My Senator?
• Write My Congress Person
• "Daubert on the Web"
• "Daubert and the Law and Science of Expert Testimony in Business Litigation"
• "Preparing for a Daubert Hearing"
• Versuslaw
• Virtual Chase