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Law Resources in the Unites States
101 Ways to Improve State Legal Systems: A User’s Guide to Promoting Fair and Effective Civil Justice
101 Ways to Improve State Legal Systems: A User’s Guide to Promoting Fair and Effective Civil Justice, from the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform (10.09) provides a compilation of legal reforms in 23 areas for potential consideration by state legislatures. Within each area, the report briefly discusses the purpose of and need for each reform. In several areas, the report notes whether the reform is needed in particular states.

Lawsuit Climate 2008
Study Ranks Best, Worst State Lawsuit Climates
Senior attorneys at America’s largest employers say state court liability systems have steadily improved over the last several years, but less than half of them rate the state courts as "excellent" or "pretty good." These lawyers say Delaware still has the best legal climate in the country, and West Virginia remains the worst. LAWSUIT CLIMATE 2008: Ranking the States

CaseClerk.com
Full access to searchable opinions (back to 1900) for U. S. Supreme, Federal Circuit, and all 50 State Appellate Courts with our user-friendly, intuitive interface that is both simple and powerful at a savings of 70% or more. Plus! Statutes & Codes, on the federal and state level. And quick and easy links to Administrative Codes. Legal research that’s powerful, affordable, and simple.

Condominium Law
Condominium codes, regulations, web links and resources, at MegaLaw.com.

InventNet
Our main goal is to provide independent inventors worldwide with real information and help them develop and market their inventions. We inform and educate inventors regarding the many pitfalls hidden on their path to success. Our organization fights for inventors' rights and for a better PATENT legislation to protect individual Intellectual Property creators.

LawMoose:
U.S. State and Territorial Laws

LegalMatch
Use LegalMatch to find the a lawyer in your area, attorneys for your case, find lawyers, legal advice, legal information, and more. All your legal needs can be handled online, and our service is free.

Legal Services Corporation
As you browse our site you will learn that legal services cases arise out of the everyday problems of the poor. Usually they relate to matters of family law, housing, employment, government benefits, or consumer problems. Left unresolved, these problems can cost society much more than the expense of legal services to address them. Therefore LSC, which receives 100 percent of its budget from Congress, supports a strong federal role in the funding of legal services so the poor will have somewhere to turn when in crisis.

Cornell University
Law School
• Antitrust
• Contract
• Criminal Procedure

LawGuru.com Find FREE Answers to your Legal Questions
You can search previously posted questions and answers or ask a free questions. There are over 70,000 questions and answers in our database and over 3,000 law firms in over 35 countries in our BBS network. Attorneys can join the attorney network for free.
Last Updated: 9 November 2011

Legal Aid, Pro Bono, and Law Resources
United States and Canada

This page features selected Legal Aid, Pro Bono, and Law Resources for the United States and Canada. It includes a law dictionary, tools for finding a lawyer in your community, International resources, listings of legal services and current products. Additional references and useful links for the United States and Canada are presented in the sidebars.

On this page...

  • Legal Aid
    Legal Aid resources in the United States and Canada, alphabetically listed by state, province and territory.
  • Pro Bono Services
    Pro Bono legal services in the United States and Canada


More Law Dictionaries and Glossaries

Find a Lawyer
LawyerLocate.ca Canadian-Lawyers.ca FindLaw.com LawQuote.com
Martindale.com - Locate a lawyer by name; search by location/area of practice, by firm, for lawyers in corporations, agencies of the US government, or law school faculty.

Legal Aid & Law Resources

In Canada

AttorneyLocate.com
CANADA: by Province/City
Public Legal Education
CALawNet Canada | LawNet Canada Français
ABPublic Legal Education Network of Alberta

Legal Resource Centre,
Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta
BCThe People's Law School
MBCommunity Legal Education Association
NBPublic Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick
NFPublic Legal Information Association of Newfoundland
NSLegal Information Society of Nova Scotia
ONCommunity Legal Education Ontario
PECommunity Legal Information Association of PEI
QCÉducaloi

Société québécoise d'information juridique
SKPublic Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan
YKYukon Public Legal Education Association
Legal Aid:
Provincial and Territorial
On this page, use the links below to find additional legal aid resources for your province.
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In the United States

AttorneyLocate.com
USA: by State/City



 AttorneyPages® is an easy-to-use consumer-oriented national directory of qualified attorneys, lawyers and law firms. The site also provides a Post-a-Case service, intended for people who are considering retaining an attorney on a legal matter. If you want free advice, you can read the questions and answers at FreeAdvice.com, or ask a question by registering on the FreeAdvice® Legal Forum.

On this page, use the links at right to quickly find legal aid resources for your state.
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Most of the U.S. organizations listed below are grantees of the Legal Services Corporation, which (in 2007) funded 138 programs with more than 900 offices around the nation to help poor Americans gain equal access to the judicial system. Here's a list of LSC-Funded Programs with Websites. You can also search here.
Alabama
Alaska
Alberta
Arizona
Arkansas
British Columbia

Victoria B.C.
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawai'i
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
See also: Legal Services Sites
Manitoba
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Brunswick
Newfoundland & Labrador
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
North West Territories
Nova Scotia
Nunavut
Ohio
Oklahoma
Ontario
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Prince Edward Island
Puerto Rico
Quebec
Rhode Island
Saskatchewan
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Yukon

Pro Bono Legal Services

United States

Canada

  • Access Pro Bono
    Society of British Columbia
    On April 1, 2010, the Western Canada Society to Access Justice merged with ProBono Law of British Columbia to become the Access Pro Bono Society of British Columbia.
  • Pro Bono Law Alberta
    Provides information about PBLA, lists pro bono programs available in Alberta, and highlights PBLA's ongoing efforts to promote opportunities for pro bono legal services in Alberta.
  • Pro Bono Law Ontario
    PBLO is a charitable organization that promotes access to justice in Ontario by creating and promoting opportunities for lawyers to provide pro bono (free) legal services to persons of limited means. Provides information about PBLO, its current projects, and its ongoing efforts to promote opportunities for pro bono legal services in Ontario.
    • Law Help Ontario
      An award-winning project of Pro Bono Law Ontario that provides pro bono legal services to people who cannot afford to hire a lawyer and are unrepresented in a legal matter. The project is currently piloting three self-help centres in courthouses in Toronto and Ottawa. In the future, centres may be launched in other locations across Ontario. Website provides online resources relating to pro bono (free) legal services available to the public.
    • Volunteer Lawyers Service
      A registered project of Pro Bono Law Ontario offers free legal support to eligible charitable and nonprofit organizations in Ontario that otherwise could not afford the services of a lawyer.
    • Child Advocacy Project
      The Child Advocacy Project (CAP) is dedicated to enhancing access to justice for children by providing free legal services to low income families who cannot afford a lawyer.
  • Pro Bono Quebec
    Pro Bono Québec reçoit les demandes de services juridiques gratuits de la part du public relativement à des dossiers de nature exceptionnelle, d'intérêt public ou lorsqu'un tort irréparable risque d'être subi.
  • Pro Bono Law Saskatchewan
    Provides information about PBLS, lists pro bono programs available in Saskatchewan and highlights PBLS's ongoing efforts to promote opportunities for pro bono legal services in Saskatchewan.
  • The Salvation Army Pro Bono Legal Services (Canada)

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A non-profit community organiza-
tion providing free programs and services for low-income Ottawa residents to fight financial exploi-
tation and indebtedness.


2001, 2009 Legal Services Society, BC

Can’t Pay Your Mortgage?
is a publication of the
Legal Services Society (LSS),
a non-government organiza-
tion that provides legal aid to British Columbians. This booklet explains the law in general and is not intended to give you legal advice on your particular problem. Be-
cause each person’s case is different, you may need to get legal help.

Can’t Pay Your Mortgage? is up to date as of July 2009.

The Canadian Bar Associa-
tion recently released a
report entitled Moving Forward on Legal Aid: Research on Needs and Innovative Approaches (6.10), by Melina Buckley LLB PhD. This report ex-
plores the current state of legal aid in Canada and internationally. Dr. Buckley examines innovative ap-
proaches for delivering access to justice, provides an important summary of policy and research, new delivery options, an overview of recent legal aid initia-
tives, and concludes with suggestions for future CBA efforts regarding access to justice.

Source: Legal Aid in Canada
Canadian Bar Association, www.cba.org. Accessed 22.07.10.

Years of cutbacks has left Canada’s legal aid system in crisis. The CBA has launched a major national initiative to raise awareness of the importance of adequate legal aid services to our system of justice and to try to resolve the crisis.

The CBA believes that lawyers have a responsibility to:

  • actively support legal aid programs;
  • speak out against threats to government-funded counsel, including underfunding of legal services and funding cutbacks; and
  • contribute to a positive dialogue on how to improve legal aid service delivery.

The CBA has five-point platform on legal aid reform:

  • Legal aid should be recognized as an essential public service, like health care.
  • Public funding should be confirmed as necessary to ensure access to justice for low-income people.
  • Public funding for legal aid must be increased.
  • National standards for criminal and civil legal aid coverage and eligibility criteria are required.
  • The federal government should revitalize its commitment to legal aid.

Legal Aid in Canada (additional information)

Law Resources in Canada

Canadian Law List
The comprehensive source of Canadian law firms, lawyers, judges and Government departments. Features include law firm profiles, practice areas and related services to the legal profession. LISTINGS FOR OVER 53,000 LAWYERS AND 18,000 LAW OFFICES

CanLaw
Canadian Lawyers Index and Directory
CanLaw is a national lawyer referral service for those requiring lawyers or legal assistance or related services for any reason whatsoever, anywhere in Canada. CanLaw's Directory of Canadian lawyers lists nearly 60,000 lawyers, law firms, and other law-related professionals cross-referenced by geographic location and area of specialization. CanLaw also posts a Directory of Canadian Members of Parliament.



Doing Legal Research
in Canada
Ted Tjaden (4.04.08)
This page is an online guide to doing legal research in Canada. The guide provides information and links to print and online resources and is aimed primarily at researchers outside of Canada needing an overview of Canadian legal research. There are six major sections:

  1. Introduction: The Canadian Legal System
  2. Canadian Primary Legal Resources
  3. Canadian Secondary Legal Resources
  4. Canadian Legal Organizations (law libraries, law schools, ...)
  5. Canadian Legal Publishers (including online vendors)
  6. Canadian Legal Research: By Topic

Duhaime's Legal Dictionary of Law Terms
Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime.

Canada Law: Internet Law Library — LawMoose

Law Society of Upper Canada

LawRunner Canada:
A Legal Research Tool
...[A]n intelligent agent-based front-end interface for the world's largest and best World Wide Web index, Google.

LLRX.com
Overview of Sources of Canadian Law on the Web, Update 3
Louise Tsang

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