Legal Profession and Legal Education web sites

This page lists websites of organizations arranged into a number of broad categories:

Bar Associations | Courts and Judges | Law Schools, Law Faculty, and Law Students | Lawyers and Law Firms | Other Organizations

Bar Associations

• American Bar Association
• Appellate Lawyers Association
• Canadian Bar Association
• Chicago Bar Association
• Chicago Council of Lawyers
• Federal Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association. Some material on this site requires ISBA membership
• Inter-American Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• National Bar Association
• National Hispanic Bar Association
• National Lawyers Guild
• see also Bar Associations and Other Legal Associations (from WashLaw Web)

Courts and Judges

Individual Courts

• Circuit Court of Cook County
• Illinois Supreme Court
• Supreme Court of the United States
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• If you are looking for the web site of a different court, please see the court directories section of our Legal Reference Resources page for directories of court web sites.

Judicial Organizations

• American Judicature Society
• Federal Judicial Center
• Federal Judiciary Homepage

Law Schools, Law Faculty, and Law Students

Chicago-Area and Illinois Law Schools

• University of Chicago Law School
• Chicago-Kent College of Law
• DePaul University College of Law
• University of Illinois College of Law
• John Marshall Law School
• Loyola University School of Law
• Marquette University Law School
• Northern Illinois University College of Law
• Notre Dame Law School
• Southern Illinois University School of Law
• Valparaiso University School of Law
• If you are looking for another law school's website, please visit the law school and law faculty directories section of our Legal Reference Resources page for directories of law school websites.
  
  

Law School, Law Faculty, and Law Student Organizations

• Association of American Law Schools
• International Law Students Association

Lawyers and Law Firms

• Attorney Directory from Martindale is available for searching through Lexis. Contains information on lawyers in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and other regions.
• West Legal Directory (WLD) is available for searching through Westlaw. "[C]ontains over 1,000,000 profiles of law firms, branch offices, and biographical records of lawyers from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the District of Columbia, Canada, England, and Europe."
• Martindale.com Lawyer Locator. Free Internet version of the Martindale-Hubbell product. Not as complete in coverage as the version available through Lexis.
• Law firms in Martindale Directory
• FindLaw: Find a Lawyer. A free site which allows one to look for either law firms or individual lawyers using the West Legal Directory.
  
  

Other Organizations

• American Bar Foundation (ABF)
• American Law Institute
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Defense Research Institute
• Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education (includes a link to their SmartBooks )
• Illinois Legal Aid Online. The site provides lower-income and vulnerable Illinois residents with information about their legal rights and responsibilities in the area of consumer law, criminal law, disability, education, family law, going to court, health care, housing, immigration, life planning, public benefits, senior citizens, taxes, and work. The site also referrals to free and low cost legal aid offices, multimedia training and education, and forms and instructions for representing themselves.
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA)
• National Organization of Bar Counsel
• see also Bar Associations and Other Legal Associations (from WashLaw Web)