Welcome to PublicLegal, a product of the Internet Legal Research Group (ILRG). Now in our 29th year of operation, PublicLegal is a socially motivated website that provides information about the law while respecting your rights and privacy. A categorized index of select websites, as well as thousands of legal forms and documents, PublicLegal aims to provide original content while serving as a resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession. Designed for everyone—laypersons, legal scholars, and practitioners alike—it is curated to include only the most helpful legal resources and information.
We pioneered the business model of free legal documents online—the first vendor to show the full text of our documents—now more than 2,000 and growing. The ability to preview and scrutinize our documents in their entirety brought transparency and accountability to the industry. We are the only legal forms provider that has a reward program, open to the public, no purchase necessary, compensating anyone who can demonstrate a legal defect or compliance issue with one of our forms.
Business Forms: Buying & Selling, Borrowing & Lending, Business Ventures, Credit & Collection, Employment, Leases & Real Estate, Protection of Legal Rights, Transfers & Assignments
Personal Forms: Estate Planning, Marital & Family, Name Change, Power of Attorney, Health Care
Legal Profession:
America's 350 Largest Law Firms Our interactive annual report features key headcount data on the largest U.S. law firms, including total number of attorneys, equity partners, non-equity partners, and associates with a comparison to the previous year, and more.
2023 Salaries of Legal Professionals Are you earning what you deserve? Uncover the salaries for U.S. law firm partners, associates, in-house counsels, legal support staff, and paralegals to ensure you're staying competitive in the legal field.
Lawyers & Law Firms: Features our index of lawyers & law firms, law firms rankings, essential lawyer locate databases including the West Legal Directory and the Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator, legal employment databases, and a listing of other major web indices of law firm web sites.
Legal Associations: Non-profit associations and organizations on the web, including professional associations at the local, state, national, and international levels.
Legal Experts: Index to sources on the web to locate a legal expert and other consultants.
Legal Forms Sources: In case you do not find the legal form you need within our our collection, see our listing of other sources for law-related forms.
U.S. Corporate & Business Forms, Filing Instructions: Check here to find a comprehensive index to legal forms that have been promulgated by U.S. state governments, as well as links to the applicable corporations act and other information helpful to the registry of business entities. These forms have been designed to meet statutory requirements and to facilitate filing.
Legal Academics:
Law School Course Outlines Archive An archive of 100 freely downloadable outlines for a broad range of law school courses, including Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, and Torts. Other outlines include Business Associations, Federal Income Tax, Insurance, International Litigation & Arbitration, and Professional Responsibility. In addition, learn about our law outline purchase program.
2020 Law School Profiles An alphabetized index to all U.S. law schools. Complete profiles on each that include all the above information, as well as links to their web sites, online law school applications, and more!
Thomas E. Brennan's Judging the Law Schools Former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice releases his own rankings of American law schools in an effort to remove subjective criteria from "traditional" rankings.
Law Students: Categorized index of web sites of interest to students of the law hand-picked by a group of law students from the University of Texas.
Pre-Law: Categorized index of web sites of interest to those who wish to attend law school hand-picked by a group of law students from the University of Texas.
Legal Research:
PublicLegal Web Index: (curated content:)
U. S. State Government Index: Essential government resources for all 50 U. S. states, plus the District of Columbia.