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Our states of legal research interest are self-limited primarily to states in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th Federal Circuits. Those states of primary interest are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Doing research on legal malpractice, legal ethics, or expert witness law?

We recommend the lexisONE legal guide to state resources as a best site for state legal resources. Their guide includes law sources and also the basic rules and forms for many states. Most of the sources are free to use, although you may have to drill down several layers to get to what you want, and you may have to do a free registration. Best Sites From lexisONE's Legal Web Site Directory has some of the most useful legal Web sites, some of which are directly single-state related and which can help on problems involving legal malpractice, legal ethics, and expert witness law.

Next on our list of preferred state resources sites are the following three, each of which have interfaces or advantages you may prefer.

	Martindale-Hubbell's corporate area site includes access to a Law Digest that summarizes the laws of all 50 states.
	Versus Law is a way to find state case law. Once you find the case opinion by their good search engine there is a per case viewed charge.
	Finally, there is the Rominger Legal law finder, which has the nifty graphic finder which they furnished us to put on this page, so you can go direct to the state's resources from here, instead of detouring.


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On the other hand, you might prefer FindLaw , which has become the most used "free" resource by attorneys doing legal research.

State Court specific questions? Hosted by the National Center for State Courts, the State Courts Website includes links to all available state courts and many state resources.

US State and Local Bar Associations, hosted by the ABA Division for Bar Services, of course, is the state for finding up to date state bar associations. This site has a clickable map with links to the various state bar associations. However, the Lexis Bar Resource Center sometimes is better, on certain local bar assocations, and includes national and international bar associations. Expert witnesses should usually check the state bar association's website if they are doing research on legal malpractice and legal ethics, expert witness law

State Statutes be found often through the Cornell University site. However, the commercial sites listed at the top of this page may be (and probably are) better suited for legal research.

The state statutes often contain enacted versions of Uniform Acts. Uniform Acts by Nat. Comm. Uniform Final Acts site has the uniform acts as proposed by the Uniform Commissioners. Another site has the Uniform Acts as enacted by the various states. A link leads to the archives and present drafting notes of the Commissioners.