Legal Reference Sources

This guide compiles online reference sources for specific legal topics. For more general sources please consult this guide.

I. Legal Associations

II. Attorney Locators

III. Embassies

IV. Federal Grants

V. Financial Resources

VI. Health-Related Information

VII. Insurance

VIII. Law Reviews and Journals

IX. Legislative History

X. Professional Licensure

XI. Uniform Laws

I. Legal Associations

Bar Associations

• Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA)

• Chicago Bar Association (CBA)

• American Bar Association (ABA)

• International Bar Association (IBA)

• HG.org: Bar Associations - Listing and information on bar associations both international and domestic.

Law Library Associations

• American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)

• Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL)
  • Finding Illinois Law: A Librarian's Guide for Non-Lawyers - A legal research guide for the general public published by CALL

• Legal Division, Special Libraries Association (SLA)

II. Attorney Locators

• Find a Lawyer - Search for a lawyer by legal issue or location. From FindLaw.

• Martindale.com - Online successor to the classic Martindale-Hubbell directory.

• Best Law Firms - Search for law firms by location and practice area. Provided by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers.

• Avvo - Search lawyers by name, practice area, or by name. Also includes forms and information on legal topics.

• Lawyers.com Find a Lawyer - Search by topic, city, or state.

• Find a Solicitor - Free service providing information on legal service providers in England and Wales. Provided by the Law Society using data from the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

III. Embassies

• USembassy.gov - Directory of United States embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions arranged by country.

• embassy.org - Directory of foreign embassies in Washington D.C.

• EmbassyPages.com - Worldwide directory of embassies, consulates, trade missions, and other diplomatic and consular representations.
  • Chicago Foreign Consulates - Contact information for more than 80 foreign representations in Chicago.

IV. Federal Grants

• Grants.gov - The single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal agencies that manage grant funds. Information on getting started, finding grant opportunities and applying for grants.

• Loans & Grants - Information from the United States Small Business Administration (SBA).

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) - This site provides access to a database of all Federal programs available to state and local governments, federally-recognized Indian tribal governments, U.S. territories (and possessions), domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions, specialized groups, and individuals.

• Government Benefits, Grants, and Loans - Official information on grants, loans, financial aid, and other benefits from the U.S. government.

• Grants Work in a Congressional Office (PDF) - Congressional Research Service (CRS) report outlining how grant requests are handled with references to other resources.

V. Financial Resources

• Bank Data & Statistics - Searchable database on banks, their branches, and the banking industry. From the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC).

• Consumers & Communities - Includes information on bankruptcy, mortgage foreclosure, community development, financial regulation, and more. From the Federal Reserve.

• Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount - 1774 to Present

• Oanda Currency Converter - A multi-lingual currency converter with current exchange rates for 164 currencies. From Oanda.com.