This page is a collection of links that may be of
interest to users of the Douglas County Law Library and is provided
only as an informational service.
Notice: Inclusion on this page does not
necessarily indicate agreement with, or the approval or support of, the
ideas, information, or actions contained in these links by the Douglas
County Law Library, the Douglas County Law Library Board of Trustees,
the District Court of Douglas County, or the governing and
administrative bodies of Douglas County, Kansas. The Law Library does
not intend to give legal advice by including links on this page and the
user should not interpret anything accessed through this page as being
in any way legal advice from the Law Library or its staff.
Suggestions for links to be included in this page are welcome.
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Douglas County:
Clerk of the District Court
District Court - 7th Judicial District
Douglas County Code
Douglas
County, Kansas official website
Local Court Rules
Baldwin City:
Baldwin City Code
Baldwin
City, Kansas official website
Lawrence:
Lawrence City Code
Lawrence,
Kansas official website
Kansas Government:
Kansas
Attorney General Opinions
Kansas Criminal Justice Coordinating Council
Kansas Criminal Justice System Resource
Directory
Kansas
District Courts
Kansas
Judicial Branch
Kansas Legislative Committees Archives
Kansas
Legislature - Bills, directories, etc.
Kansas Sentencing Commission
Kansas Sentencing Guidelines, Desk Reference
Manuals
Kansas Statutes
Federal Government:
Thomas
United States Code Search
United States Congress - Bills,
directories, etc.
Bar Associations:
American
Bar Association
Douglas
County Bar Association
Kansas
Bar Association
Law Journals:
Kansas
Journal of Law & Public Policy - Free online access
to full text articles in the Kansas Journal of Law & Public
Policy is available through both their website and the Lexis connection
on the Law Library's three patron work stations.
Kansas Law Review - Free online
access to full text articles in the Kansas Law Review is available only
through the Lexis connection on the Law Library's three patron work
stations.
Legal:
FindLaw.
Global
Legal Information Network (GLIN) - A public database of the
Law Library of Congress providing full text on-line searching of laws,
regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources
contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
Lawyers.
LexisONE Community - A service from
LexisNexis that allows registered users to search case law free of
charge. The past ten years of State and Federal Courts and the U.S.
Supreme Court from 1781 to the present can be searched on-line by
keyword and by citation. There is no charge to register.
Libraries:
Blue
Skyways - On-line services from the Kansas State Library.
Johnson
County Law Library.
KANAnswer - Real-time on-line
information service for Kansas.
Kansas
Supreme Court Law Library.
Lawyers for Libraries.
Librarians'
Internet Index.
Lyon County Law Library.
Refdesk.com
- Newspapers - USA and Worldwide.
Sedgwick County Law Library.
University
of Kansas Wheat Law Library.
Washburn
University Law Library.
Resources for Lawyers:
Core Legal Research Competencies -
A compendium of skills and knowledge lawyers should possess or acquire
to perform successful legal research. From the American Association of
Law Libraries’ Research Instruction Caucus.
CourtWEB - An on-line searchable
database of recently filed opinions from judges in some U.S. Federal
Court jurisdictions.
Handbook on Limited Scope Legal Assistance
- From the Modest Means Task Force of the Litigation Section of the
American Bar Association - Designed to help lawyers provide more and
better forms of limited scope legal assistance to those, who without
this help, likely would receive no assistance at all - Also available
in print in the Douglas County Law Library.
KALAP
(Kansas Lawyers Assistance Program) - Provides Kansas lawyers
and law students with assistance for substance abuse, mental health
disorders, and other disabilities.
Pro
Bono Net - Nonprofit organization whose mission is to
increase access to justice through innovative uses of technology and
increased volunteer lawyer participation.
Selfhelpsupport.org
- Serves as a network for practitioners of self-help programs and as a
clearinghouse of information relating to self-representation.
Resources for Non-Lawyers:
FindLegalHelp.org - A consumers'
guide to legal help provided by the American Bar Association.
How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for
Non-Lawyers - From the Legal
Information Services to the Public (LISP) Special Interest Section
of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Kansas Court System Self-Help Center
- A service of the Kansas Judicial Branch intended to help non-lawyers
find legal assistance and information, work with an attorney, and
represent themselves in some legal matters. The service includes
on-line access to a number of legal forms that can be downloaded.
Kansas Lawyer Referral Service - A
service of the Kansas Bar Association.
Kansas Legal Services - A statewide
non-profit organization helping low income Kansans meet their basic
needs through providing essential legal, mediation, and employment
training services.
LawHelp.org
- Nonprofit organization for people living on low-incomes and the legal
organizations that serve them. Kansas is not a participating
state.
Limited Scope Approved Attorney List for the
District Court - List of attorneys who have been approved to
perform Limited Scope Representation in the District Court of Douglas
County, Kansas.
Limited Scope Representation in Douglas
County, Kansas, District Court - Information on Limited Scope
Representation (hiring a specially trained attorney to help with
specific tasks rather than taking on full representation of the client)
in Douglas County.
Nolo
- Information on legal matters for non-lawyers.
Pro se (Self-Represented) Divorce Forms
- Basic Kansas divorce forms and instructions for self-represented
parties prepared by the Kansas Judicial Council's Family Law Advisory
Committee. The Kansas Supreme Court has approved the use of these
forms.
SCCLL Self-Representation Resources
- Resources on self-representation from the State, Court, and County
Law Libraries Special Interest Section, American Association of Law
Libraries.
Miscellaneous:
Community
Tool Box
HCCI
(Housing & Credit Counseling, Inc.)
This Month in Legal History
Web
Based Resources - Website containing links to legal and other
electronic journals and selected websites.
For more information, contact the Law Library
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