General Law

American Bar Association

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_services/flh-home/flh-free-legal-help.html

Free legal help

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex

Articles, bibliographies, and electronic links on a wide array of topics, such as children’s rights, death penalty, human rights, law schools, public interest, religion, sexuality, statistics, and all the conventional subjects, such as banking, business, contracts, etc.

Everybody's Legal Glossary

http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm 

"Your Life Raft in a Sea of Legal Jargon."  This dictionary, from a prominent law publisher, defines legal terms.

FindLegalHelp.org

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal_services/flh-home/

Guide to finding a lawyer, locating free legal help, self-help legal resources, and more.

Findlaw

http://www.findlaw.com 

With this excellent directory, you can retrieve case law, statutes, codes, and legal news.  Whether you are searching for information about asbestos, elder law, or traffic violations, you are likely to find the leads you need.

Guide to Law Online

https://www.loc.gov/research-centers/law-library-of-congress/researcher-resources/guide-to-law-online/

From the Library of Congress, a portal of web sites about international, federal, and state laws; with additional links of a more general nature.

HG.org

https://www.hg.org

Free searchable directory of law firms, attorneys and expert witnesses.

How to Locate Free Case Law on the Internet

http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/02/how-to-locate-free-case-law-on-the-internet

Guidance from the Library of Congress.

Internet Law Guide Rutgers School of Law Newark

http://libguides.rutgers.edu/law

Contents compiled by Paul Axel-Lute. Contains weblinks to United States, New Jersey, world Law, as well as legal history and news.

Internet Resources [for Law]

http://njlla.org/internet-resources

The New Jersey Law Librarians Association prepared this rich compilation of sites for cases, courts and court rules, statutes and legislation, administrative law, legal reference, news, research keys, consumer guides, etc.

Justia

https://www.justia.com/legal-guides/

Justia provides free guides to legal topics.

LawGuru

http://www.lawguru.com 

Search the free database for answers to your legal questions, or ask your own question. Also available are legal forms for contracts, copyright, deeds, divorce, leases, living wills, power of attorney, wills, and more.

Lawyers.com

http://lawyers.com 

Looking for a lawyer?  Find one by the geographical location and specialization you specify.  This database comes from Martindale-Hubbell, the leading resource to finding an attorney. Search by lawyers name or by type of practice. Other services available on the site are legal research topics and "ask a lawyer."

Legal Aid

http://www.lsnj.org/LegalServicesOffices.aspx

Contact information for legal aid services throughout New Jersey. 

Legal Services

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/file/ProBonoNJ/download

List of pro bono legal service providers in New Jersey. 

Municode

https://library.municode.com/nj

Municode, more formally known as Municipal Code Corporation, is the largest private sector publisher of municipal ordinances, responsible for the codification and publication of municipal codes for more than 2,700 cities and counties in all 50 states.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

https://www.ncjrs.gov/index.html

General information, publications, statistics, and grant opportunities in corrections, courts, crime, crime prevention, drugs, the justice system, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims.

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice

http://www.njisj.org

Committed to "expanding access to economic opportunity for low-income and minority residents of Newark and other urban areas in the state," to "ensuring the civil rights and other basic entitlements," and to effective government and cooperative ventures--NJISJ addresses such problems as driver license restoration, predatory lending, fair housing, collateral consequences of criminal convictions, prisoner re-entry, and legal advocacy. 

Ombudsman Directory / NJ Courts
https://www.njcourts.gov/public/directories/court-services/ombudsman

Phone numbers, addresses, and emails of NJ county ombudsmans.

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