Judges and Opposing Counsel - Additional Resources
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General Sources for Information on Judges and Opposing Counsel:
- Westlaw Profiler - PROFILER-WLD - bios, affiliations, links to cases involved in, caseload by type of case, more.
- LexisNexis - Total Litigator>Early Case Assessment . Searches several databases simultaneously. Some databases are available in the law school plan. LexisNexis Analyzer, which offers comprehensive reports on judges and attorneys is not in the law school plan.
- LexisNexis Courtlink Litigant Attorney and Judge Strategic Profiles - shows litigation the person or corporation is/was involved in and breaks it down by type of case.
- Newspaper databases - Lexis (ALLNWS or other) and Westlaw (ALLNEWS or other) , America's Newspapers: Newsbank and many more available to CSU students. Also available via the Cleveland Public Library.
- Case law databases (mostly appellate level cases) Lexis, Westlaw and other sources
- Jury Verdict searches (trial court level, mostly bodily injury cases) - see the Jury Verdict section of the Library's Torts and Personal Injury Resource Guide.
- General Internet Searches (Google, Clusty, etc.) or Legal Search Engines
Attorneys
Bios on Law Firm Websites -
- Lawyers on the Internet - Directory of law firm web sites
- Fee Fie Fo Firm - a search engine that indexes only law firm sites. Fee Fie Fo Firm also finds articles in law firm newsletters
Lawyer Licensing
- Lawyer Licensing Databases in the Fifty States
- Ohio Supreme Court: Attorney Information Search
Disciplinary Actions against Attorneys
- Ohio Supreme Court: Attorney Information Search
- Ohio Supreme Court cases on the web back to 1993 can be searched for disciplinary cases. Also Lexis and Westlaw Ohio case databases.
- ABA - Directory of Lawyer Disciplinary Agencies
- National Lawyer Regulatory Databank - A service which will search nationwide for disciplinary actions against an attorney, for a fee.
Directories with Ranking Information
- LexisNexis- Legal>Secondary>Martindale Hubbell Law Directory Listings. Martindale-Hubbell Listings-All: ALLDIR
- Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator - Attorneys must pay to be listed in Martindale-Hubbell, so it is not an exhaustive directory of all attorneys. International. Peer review surveys. Find attorney by practice area and location.
- Avvo - Avvo gathers information on attorneys and creates a ranking. Clients can review attorneys.
- Best Lawyers in America - Peer review surveys. Nonsubscribers do not have access to all attorney profiles.
- Chambers and Partners USA Directory - Rates attorneys that represent businesses and unions. Some profile information is obtained from interviews with the lawyer’s clients.
- A.M. Best's Directory - Directory information and ratings for insurance defense attorneys.
- Personal Injury Lawyer Directory - by Martindale Hubbell. Canada and U.S.
- Price's List of Lists: Professional Services enables you to find various ranking lists of attorneys. Just do a Control-F search for the word attorney.
Directories without Ranking Information
- Thomson Legal Record - Generates a list of cases from Westlaw in which the attorney has been involved. Search for lawyers with experience in a particular court or subject area.
- Ohio Supreme Court: Attorney Information Search- contains attorneys who have been admitted to the practice of law in Ohio, but the attorney may or may not be in good standing. Indicates disciplinary actions against the attorney.
- ABA Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator - Find attorney by practice area and location.
- Findlaw Legal Directory - Includes domestic and foreign attorneys.
- Canada Law List - Directory of Canadian lawyers.
- Directory of Corporate Counsel - KF195.C6 D572 or Westlaw CORP-DIR
- Directory of In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies - free with registration.
- Jurist - The Law Professors' Directory - (links to profiles on law school websites)
- Justia Lawyers - Basic profile is free for attorneys, but in exchange for being able to put more on their profile (and other perks), attorneys must contribute legal information on blogs, wikis, and forums, or support organizations such as LII.
- MyLawNetwork.com - currently sparse except for prosecuting attorneys
Message Boards/Rating Sites
- USPTO Examiners - Message board where IP professionals can discuss and rate patent examiners, trademark examiners and other intellectual property attorneys.
- Avvo - Avvo gathers information on attorneys and creates a ranking. Clients can review attorneys.
- LawyerRatingz - Clients assign ratings in 5 categories and make comments.
- MyLawNetwork.com - Comments by attorneys on attorneys and prosecutors. Currently sparse.
Judges
Bios on Court Web sites:
- National Center for State Courts - to find state court web sites
- U.S. Courts - to find federal court web sites
Directories/Bios
- The American Bench: Judges of the Nation KF8700 .A19 A47
- Almanac of the Federal Judiciary KF8700 .A19 A4 - has commentary by attorneys on each judge. Also on Westlaw - AFJ and CCH Business and Finance (Trial Lawyer's tab).
- West's Legal Directory - Judges - WLD-JUDGE - bio and affiliations
- Federal Judicial Center - Contains a biographical directory of all persons who have served as federal judges from 1789 to the present.
- Ohio Judicial Conference Directory - Contact information for all Ohio judges.
- MyLawNetwork.com - bio info appears to be from court websites.
Message Boards/Rating Web Sites
- The Robing Room
- Courthouse Forum
- Judgepedia.org
- MyLawNetwork.com - currently sparse. Comments by attorneys.
For Fee Databases
- TRAC's Federal Judges indicates the types of cases handled, how long the case was on the docket and the outcome of the case
- LexisNexis - Total Litigator>Early Case Assessment, see General Sources, above
- Westlaw - PROFILER-WLD - bios, affiliations, links to cases involved in, caseload by type of case, more.
SA
Nov. 2008
Links Checked, SA, 5-7-2009