AltLaw – Free Legal Search Engine
February 01, 2008

AltLaw – Free Legal Search Engine
http://www.altlaw.org/
AltLaw – Search the Full Text of Over 300,000 Legal Documents. The law is meant to belong to the people, but it can be surprisingly hard to find. Case reports, a major part of the laws of the United States, are hard to get at, and even when on the Internet, rarely searchable. To get full access you generally need either a library of law reports, or an expensive subscription to an online database, which can cost hundreds of dollars per hour. AltLaw is a small effort to change that—to make the common law a bit more common. AltLaw provides the first free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. It is a resource for attorneys, legal scholars, and the general public. AltLaw features include: a) Full text search of the last few decades of appellate and Supreme Court opinions, b) Advanced search options (proximity searching, Boolean, concentration, wildcards, etc.), c) Fast and free, and d) Updated daily. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Legal Resources Internet MiniGuide.