The Law Library of the Louisiana Supreme Court has recently made free Westlaw searching available for its patrons. And the searches are not limited to just federal and state cases. Much more is available, as you will see in the e-mail which I received from the Library. (Please note, however, that the searching must be done at the library terminals and may not be done remotely.)
I did some Internet searching and found that other libraries also make free Westlaw searching available, although sometimes you may have to be a member of a city or county bar association to use its facilities. I have included a list of what I found. However, the list probably does not include all locations and some of the information may have been changed from what the associations published earlier.
First, here's part of the e-mail which I received that describes what Louisiana provides:
“The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of Westlaw to our free research databases. Our subscription includes: all of the primary federal and state law (cases, codes and regulations), hundreds of law reviews and journals, American Jurisprudence, ALR, Am Jur Proof of Facts and Trials, Restatements, Couch on Insurance, KeyCite and much more. Louisiana specific material includes the Louisiana Civil Law Treatises, and all the volumes in the Louisiana Practice Series, including Civil Appellate Procedure, Civil Practice Forms, Estate Planning in Louisiana, etc.
“Westlaw is available on two terminals in the library.”
You can find more information about the searching on page 4 of a newsletter in the supreme court's website.
Now, here are some additional locations:
Alaska
Minnesota
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Texas
Washington
If you have any comments or any additional locations for free searching, please send them to me at comments"@"outoftheboxlawyering"."com , but omit all of the quotation marks. (I'm trying to minimize spam.)
Posted by ajlevy at January 18, 2005 11:11 AM