By: Aaron Eberle The spring and summer buying season is in full bloom in the American real estate industry, a time of year when lawyers who advise clients in real estate transactions tend to be busier...
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As a legal professional, you make a positive impact upon the world. From defending human rights to promoting ethical business practices, there are a myriad of ways your expertise and training may promote overall wellbeing. However, to scale your impact, it's critical that you have the right resources.
At LexisNexis®, we support attorneys in making a difference. One of the ways that we like to help is by making a a wide range of information resources available to legal professionals for free (regardless of if you're a LexisNexis customer or not), and we invite you to leverage these resources to do what you do best — advance the rule of law and make the world a better place.
Here are 12 of our best free legal resources, courtesy of LexisNexis and RELX Group, our parent company:
This is an interactive map from LexisNexis that offers a 50-state comparison of voting laws as well as proposed federal voting legislation. Visitors can drill down for details regarding which states have or are considering legislation impacting requirements for things such as election infrastructure, voter registration, absentee voting, voter ID and voter proof of citizenship.
The Lexis® Practical Guidance team has created this online kit comprised of various resources making it easier for citizens to vote and understand the issues around voting rights. It includes primary law, secondary sources, and news articles to help legal professionals get their arms around the landscape of voting rights protections.
We have removed the paywall for some of our valuable legal news and information resources related to the tragic war in Ukraine. Stay on top of the fluid situation and wide-ranging legal ramifications with free access to legal news coverage of the war from Law360® and a special report on Russian sanctions from MLex®.
This is a free online destination, created by the LexisNexis Rule of Law Foundation, where law firms and corporations can offer legal job opportunities and complimentary legal assistance to Ukrainian lawyers who need international assistance during this crisis. The portal leverages the power of information technology to connect warm-hearted legal professionals around the world with their colleagues in Ukraine so they can help them in a tangible way.
The Lexis® Practical Guidance Coronavirus Resource Kit, which can be downloaded by anyone for free, contains select content addressing emerging issues related to COVID-19 across a variety of practices. Law360® has also removed the paywall for access to key Coronavirus news coverage.
This free calendar from State Net® can help legal professionals monitor when legislatures are active, as well as important legislative dates and deadlines. In 2023, LexisNexis projects that lawmakers will consider more than 165,500 new bills and approximately 12,500 carry-over bills.
This newsletter from Law360® delivers to readers, free of charge, all stories regarding trends affecting the justice gap, pro bono programs in the legal industry, and difference-makers in the legal profession who are helping citizens with the fewest resources gain access to the courts.
This curated resource from State Net® pushes out complimentary daily updates on executive, legislative and regulatory activities across the U.S. that are focused on combatting racial discrimination. Legal professionals can track government actions of interest and click on specific measures to read full-text updates.
The Lexis® Practical Guidance team has curated a collection of resources that features LexisNexis content and links to publicly available content from various legal advocacy groups that are working to promote civil rights, improve access to justice, and increase police accountability.
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