Library Links

General Resources

Directories

California Courts: Links to California Superior Courts, Courts of Appeals, and Supreme Court web sites.
California Lawyers: State Bar of California Members records online. Searchable by name or by state bar number.
State of California's Online Directory: California Online Directory, searchable by name of state agencies or individual state employees and contains an organizational chart of the California State Government.
California State Assemby Members: Links to Assembly Member's Home Page and includes biography and email address.
California State Senators: Links to Senator's Home Page and includes biography and email address.
Federal Courts: Links to a clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government, maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Law School Faculty Profiles: Jurist's Directory of U.S. Law Professors including official biographies w/ links to their personal home pages.
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator: Nationwide directory of lawyers, searchable by individual name, firm name, and practice area.
United States Representatives: Provides contact information for members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
United States Senators: Provides contact information for U.S. Senate members searchable by name or by state.

Internet Acronym Server: Provides a list of (mostly) acronyms (abbreviations constructed from the first letter or first few letters of the words of a phrase. This is not a dictionary. Users can search for an acronym and see what it means or search a word and see what acronym it is used in. Users can also add an acronym to the database.
Bartleby.com: Contains excellent reference works including American Heritage Dictionary, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Columbia Encyclopedia, Robert's Rules of Order, Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, and World Factbook.
LII's Introduction to Legal Citation: Peter W. Martin's primer on citation was updated in 2011 and is based on the 19th edition of the Bluebook and the 4th edition of the ALWD Citation Manual.
Legal Dictionaries: Links to legal dictionaries or glossaries of legal terms from the Stetson University College of Law.
Zimmerman's Research Guides: An online encyclopedia for legal researchers by Andrew Zimmerman. Users can search by keyword/phrase or browse by topic.