Legal Information Guides
How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers (AALL)
This brief guide is intended to help a person with a legal problem find legal rules that can resolve or prevent conflict. It is most useful to work through the steps and sources in the order given. It was created by the American Association of Law Libraries.
Best Practices for Using AI in Legal Research: A Guide for Non-Lawyers (AALL)
This guide is designed to help non-lawyers navigate AI tools with confidence. Learn how AI generates and retrieves information, recognize its strengths and limitations, and discover best practices for using AI responsibly when researching legal issues.
Guide to Virginia Legal Information Resources (VALL)
This document includes a list of legal information resources covering topics as varied as incorporating a business, contesting a traffic ticket, researching health law, obtaining social security, renting a dwelling, buying a house, and writing a will. This list of resources does not constitute legal advice or answers to questions of law. The list identifies resources for public librarians seeking items for their legal collections and independent researchers seeking legal information. The hypertext links will send the reader to a website where the information is located or send the reader to content within WorldCat. WorldCat.org is a free online catalog which allows the reader to browse the collections of thousands of libraries, including Virginia’s public libraries. By clicking on one of the links to a WorldCat record, the reader will see a list of libraries that include that legal resource in their collection. From there, one can either directly access online content that is openly available or click on a link for the library nearest them.
Online Legal Information Resources (AALL)
AALL, the American Association of Law Libraries, has created an online legal information resource platform. It provides content for each of the United States, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, U.S. Federal government, and Canada. The content includes session laws, codes, registers, and court opinions.
