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Find an Attorney & Legal Aid

Attorneys

Disciplinary hearings.
New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics. Alphabetical list begins 1990; includes specifics about the incident.
Lawyers.com.
From Martindale-Hubbell. Can search by name, location, or specialization. Information on individual lawyers such as practice area, contact info, law school, affiliations, etc. Also includes client ratings/testimonials by clients.
FindLaw Lawyer Search.
From WestLaw. Can search for lawyers by area and/or specialization. Links directly to websites.

Legal Aid

County College of Morris Women’s Center.
CCM’s Women’s Center holds family law clinics and workshops, and offers a free half hour legal consultation on matters pertaining to family law.
Consumer’s Guide to Free Legal Help.
Division for Legal Services, American Bar Association
Legal Services of New Jersey.
Statewide legal assistance programs for low income residents.
Morris County Bar Assn. Lawyer Referral Service.
Referrals are free; charge for half hour consultation with attorney (not income/age dependent).
Morris County Department of Aging.
Seniors can inquire about additional legal assistance services.
Rutgers Law Associates Fellowship Program.
Affordable legal services provided by lawyers recently admitted to practice and committed to serving the needs of moderate-income New Jersey residents. Located on the Rutgers Newark campus.

New Jersey

New Jersey Laws & Regulations

New Jersey Administrative Code (NJAC).
Free access requires registration. The online NJAC is updated quarterly. Regulations are updated with the New Jersey Register, also available from the NJAC site.
NJ Legislature – including NJ Statutes Annotated (NJSA).
To find NJSA, locate the content bar on the left, then scroll down to Laws and Constitution and select Statutes. Also provides NJ statutes and current bills. Status reports are updated regularly and related legislative documents are noted.
Live broadcasts of selected NJ legislative proceedings.

New Jersey Cases

Administrative Law Decisions.
Database begins October, 1997.
NJ Judiciary.
Decisions within the last 10 days.
School Law Decisions.
From the Commissioner of Education, State Board of Education, School Ethics Commission and State Board of Examiners are uploaded beginning 1997.
Supreme, Appellate and Tax.
Court Reports are maintained online by Rutgers Law School-Camden. Beginning dates vary: Supreme Court (March, 1994), Appellate Division and Tax Court (September, 1995).

New Jersey Court Information

Child Support Guidelines.
Includes financial worksheet.
Family Division.
Child Placement Review, Supervised Visitation Program and Domestic Violence.
New Jersey Judiciary.
Provides links to judicial (trial), administrative (civil, criminal) and special (tax, municipal) courts.
Surrogate Court.
Morris County probates wills and handles estate matters.

Federal

Federal Laws & Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations.
Provided by the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library. 1997-present.
Federal Register.
Provided by GPO Access. Coverage runs from 1994-present, updated daily.
Regulations.gov.
Search all current regulations by keyword, agency, or type of document. Quickest way to identify all proposed regulations open for public comment.
Congress.gov (93rd Congress [1973] to present).
Offers information on current bills, recently passed laws, House and Senate voting records, selected full-text committee reports, and the Congressional Record and is updated by the Library of Congress.
United States Code.
Full-text searchable version the U.S. Code. Prior years (1988-present) also online. In order to ensure that a particular section of the law is still in force, search latest changes using Thomas.
United States Constitution.
Includes text, history, explanation of legal points and major constitutional cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (1774-1875).
American Memory Collection, Library of Congress. Full-text U.S. Congressional documents and debates, including the Journals of the Continental Congress.

Federal Case Law

Cornell Law School.
Concentrates on recent federal decisions (1990-present).
Federal Judiciary Homepage.
Provides links to all district and bankruptcy courts. Beginning dates vary. Federal cases heard in New Jersey are also available online.
FEDWORLD/FLITE.
Older federal decisions (1937-1975) are accessible.
Findlaw Supreme Court Opinions.
Offers the most comprehensive collection of Supreme Court opinions, dating back to 1893.
US District Court.
District of New Jersey decisions begin October, 1998.
US Supreme Court.
Includes history, rules and current information.

Federal Court Rules, Procedures & Forms Covering New Jersey

Legal Forms

FindLaw’s Court Forms.
Federal and state forms downloadable from the Web. Federal forms include appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. State forms vary, most are for civil cases.
New Jersey Forms for attorneys.
New Jersey Forms for non-Attorneys.
Selected civil, probate, arbitration, mediation, small claims forms.
New Jersey Pro Se Forms.
Selected civil matters (name change, suing for amount of money under $15,000.00, family court forms, etc.) Includes information on how to appeal a decision of a Municipal Court and how to appeals in higher NJ courts.
New Jersey Court Rules, appendices contain dozens of forms and worksheets including Child Support, wage execution, and court transcript request.

Law Libraries

Law Libraries in New Jersey

New Jersey State Law Library.
Located in Trenton. Offers extensive collections of state and federal laws, federal/regional reporters, digests, treatises, attorney practice books and legal periodicals.
Rutgers University Law School Library.
Located in Newark. Includes a New Jersey Law – Regulations, Executive Materials & Administrative Law.

Law Libraries on the Web

FindLaw.
Extensive collection of legal information. Locate state laws, regulations, courts, cases, associations.
Legal Information Institute.
From Cornell University. Publishes law online, creates materials to help people understand the law, etc.
LSNJLaw.
Find NJ legal information on employment, school law, personal injury, etc. from a variety of state, federal and professional legal sources.

Legal Information Available at MCL

Much of the Morris County Library’s current legal information is now available through the Westlaw database (accessible in the library only), such as:

Code of Federal Regulations.
Federal Register.
New Jersey Administrative Code.
New Jersey Statutes Annotated.
United States Code Annotated.

In addition, the Reference Department houses the following legal print collection:

Code of Federal Regulations, 1979-2003 (with gaps). 3CFR only in paper.
Rules administered by Federal agencies.
Federal Register, 1964 to 2001. Microfiche and microfilm only.
Proposed and newly passed agency rules/regulations.
Laws of New Jersey, 1709 to 2010.
Laws in their original form.
New Jersey Administrative Code, current to 2012 in paper.
State agency rules and regulations.
New Jersey Equity Reports, 1830-1948.
Court of Chancery & Court of Errors & Appeals.
New Jersey Law Reports, 1862-1948.
Supreme Court & Court of Errors and Appeals.
New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports, 1923-Jan. 1949.
Court of Errors and Appeals, Court of Chancery, Prerogative and Supreme Courts.
New Jersey Register, 1969 to present.
Proposed and newly passed agency rules/regulations.
New Jersey Reports, 1948 to 2015.
State Supreme Court decisions.
New Jersey Statutes Annotated, through 2015.
State laws.
New Jersey Superior Court Reports, 1948 to 2015.
State Appellate decisions.
Statutes at Large/United States Code Congressional and Administrative News, 1954 to 2012.
Laws in their original form.
Supreme Court Digest, through 2008.
Indexes cases by subject and party.
United States Code Annotated, through 2012.
Federal laws.
United States Supreme Court Reports, 1827-1854; 1956-2008.
Decisions of the Court.
West’s New Jersey Digest, (1st & 2^nd series). Current to 2015.
Indexes by subject and party.