Search Ohio Supreme Court decisions and announcement: (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/rod/newpdf/default.asp).

The Court's schedule for oral argument: (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Clerk_of_Court/calendar/)

The Ohio Supreme Court maintains a list of Appellate Court Websites. (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/District_Courts/default.asp). All appellate court decisions are also available on the Ohio Supreme Court's website. 

Many trial courts also have websites. The Ohio Supreme Court keeps a fairly comprehensive list. http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Web_Sites/courts/default.asp. The Ohio Clerk of Courts Association (http://www.occaohio.com/) also has a clickable map (http://www.occaohio.com/map.htm) which makes a nice starting point for finding Ohio courts on the internet. Likewise the Ohio Association of Municipal Court Clerks (http://www.oamcc.com/) provides a page of links (http://www.oamcc.com/links.htm ).

At Anderson's, Ohio Revised Code and Ohio Administrative Code: (http://onlinedocs.andersonpublishing.com/)

At Ohio Supreme Court, Rules of Civil Procedure, Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Evidence, and others: (http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Rules/)

Local Rules of Common Pleas Courts: (http://www.columbuslawlib.org/links.asp?cmd=OtherCounties)

Legislative Service Commission, follow up on the status of pending legislation: (http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/)

Ohio City Ordinances at http://clelaw.lib.oh.us/Public/Misc/Muni_Ct.html#Ord or directly to the Columbus, Ohio City Code at  (http://ordlink.com/codes/columbus/index.htm)

The State of Ohio Front Page (http://www.state.oh.us/) provides access to all branches of state government and many state agencies. Especially useful are:

Directory of Agency Websites (http://www.state.oh.us/ohio/agency.htm).

Directory of professionals licensing information (https://license.ohio.gov/), including physicians at the Ohio Medical Board (http://www.state.oh.us/med/).

Corporate registration information at the Secretary of State's office (http://www.state.oh.us/sos/). Hint: Look under Inquires for Business at the Secretary of State main page.

Insurance company principal place of business and agent information at the Ohio Department of Insurance (http://www.ins.state.oh.us/).

Ohio Attorney General decisions from 1994 to present: (http://www.ag.state.oh.us/opinions/agopinio.htm)

Ohio Supreme Court Law Library Catalog: (http://198.234.109.17/connect/lu_group_1)

Capital Law School Library Catalog: (http://charli.capital.edu/search)

Ohio State (including the College of Law): (http://library.ohio-state.edu/search/)

Columbus Metropolital Library: (http://www.columbuslibrary.org/)

Including free access, with a valid library card number, to an incredible array of databases many of which are ordinarly fee based. (http://www.columbuslibrary.org/new/databaseslinks.cfm)

Columbus Law Library: (http://www.columbuslawlib.org/)

Includes a link to other county law libraries across the state: (http://http://www.columbuslawlib.org/legalinstitutions.htm)

State Law Outside Ohio

At Findlaw.Com, great links to state courts, statutes and government: (http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/11stategov/)

At Law Library Resources Exchange, Litigator's Internet Resource Guide: Rules of Court: (http://www.llrx.com/courtrules/) a nice, comprehensive list of State and Federal Court Rules.

At Scruffy, (http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm)

At Seattle Public Library, Municipal Codes Online: (http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes)

National Association of Secretaries of State, Directory of all Secretary of State Web Pages: http://www.nass.org/sos/sos.html

National Association of Counties (http://www.naco.org/counties

Federal Law

At U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library, search the entire United States Code: (http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm)

At National Archieves, search the entire Code of Federal Regulations: (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html)

At Find Law, all cases since 1893: (http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html)

At The Oyez Project, listen to recordings of oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court in historically significant cases. Requires RealAudio software (which you can download for free) and computer speakers: (http://oyez.nwu.edu/)

Federal Court filings are generally available from PACER. PACER is a fee based system which requires registration for a password. More information is available at the PACER service center (http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/). Eachcourt participating in PACER will have its own login address. Additionally, there is a national Party/Case Index at http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov/.

At. Find Law, links to all Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal: (http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/10fedgov/judicial/appeals_courts.html)

At. Find Law, links to Federal District Courts: (http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/10fedgov/judicial/district_courts.html)

At Georgetown University, searchable database of Court of Appeals decisions for the Federal Circuit since August 1995 which have been designated for publication.: (http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/cafed.html).

At The Legal Information Institute,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/overview.htm)
Federal Rules of Evidence: (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/overview.html)
Rules of the U.S. Supreme Court: (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/supct/overview.html)

At Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy, a very comprehensive links to the federal government: (http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/).
And finally, First Gov, the official comprehensive government index: (http://firstgov.gov/)
At Tax Sites, a comprehensive index of tax and accounting resources on the Internet: (http://www.taxsites.com/)

Legal Mega Sites and Meta Searches

Hieros Gamos: (http://www.hg.org);
Internet Legal Resource Guide: (http://www.ilrg.com/);
Law Links.com: (http://www.lawlinks.com/);
The Internet Lawyer: (http://www.internetlawyer.com/).

Lawguru.com: (http://www.lawguru.com/search/lawsearch.html). Comprehensive collection of legal search engines. It is possible to search on over 500 such engines from this site.

Findlaw: (http://www.findlaw.com/). Comprehensive index of legal resources on the Web.

Catalaw: (http://www.CataLaw.com/index.shtml). Catalog of law related catalog sites.

Law Crawler: (http://www.lawcrawler.com/index.html). Legal search data base.

University Law Review Project: (http://www.lawreview.org/). Allows full text search of legal journals on the Internet.

Legal Associations

Description of services, information about attorney referral program, some legal links. Bar Briefs Magazine on-line (but not searchable). Franklin County Docket by Judge (not searchable). And now, the CBA Directory.

Great clearing house of information for Academy members.

Very good membership directory of Ohio lawyers and OSBA publications in searchable format. Now available with CaseMaker Web Library with reported and unreported case law, verdict reporter, 6th Circuit decisions, and much more. Must be a member of OSBA and apply for a free password to access the good stuff.

Rules and Forms available.

The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Some public information is available; however, you must be an ATLA member to access most of this site. It is now possible to word search the ATLA site, including the major ATLA publications.

Drafters of uniform state laws such as the UCC.

Investigation

Criminal Records: http://www.crimetime.com/bbocrim.htm
Social Security Death Index: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm
Professional Licensing: http://www.clearhq.org/boards.htm
State Records: http://www.crimetime.com/bbostate.htm
Birthday Lookup: http://anybirthday.com/search.htm
Business Searches: http://www.crimetime.com/bbobiz.htm

Tax information about real estate is becoming widely available nationwide. See ((http://homepage.mac.com/researchventures/index.html))

In Ohio, many county auditors make real estate information available on the Web. (The County Auditors Associaion of Ohio (http://www.caao.org/ ) has a directory which is handy for locating Web addresses of Ohio Auditors.)

Columbus (Ohio) Police Department: (http://www.columbuspolice.org/Public/). Incident reports free on-line.

Martindale-Hubbel: (http://lawyers.martindale.com)
Need a lawyer? Search by name, by firm name, or by area of practice, or location..

WhoWhere: (http://www.whowhere.com/): Find addresses, businesses, e-mail addresses (the usual)

InfoSpace: (http://www.infospace.com): The usual plus reverse lookup (find a person with a phone number).

Big Book: (http://www.bigbook.com/): Great Yellow Pages Directory

At Medscape: (http://medscape.com/). Excellent site devoted to medicine. Access to "the good stuff" requires a username and password which may be obtained free of charge. The "library" section is particularly useful. Search Medline for free! Also search Toxline, Drug Search (which provides information similar to the PDR), and a medical dictionary.

At National Library of Medicine, Pub Med: (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/). Free, fast Medline search.

Internet and Technology

All the Web: (http://www.alltheweb.com): Incredibly fast search engine with the lofty goal of indexing "All the Web".

Dogpile: (http://www.dogpile.com): Simultaneously search of all major Web search engines.

Profusion: (http://www.profusion.com): Like Dogpile, except you select which engines to search.

Yahoo: (http://www.yahoo.com/). The Great Comprehensive Index of the Web.

Google Groups:   (http://groups.google.com/): Archive of news group discussions.

TUCOWS Internet Software: (http://www.tucows.com/). Get all the software you will ever need to navigate the Net.

ZDNet Computer Magazine: (http://www.zdnet.com/). Got a computer question? ZDNet reviews a wide range of computer hardware and software products.