The United States House of Representatives provides a major source of information, including:

• The schedule of bills, resolutions, and other legislative issues before the House
• The Library of Congress with Information about the U.S. Congress legislative process, bills, the Congressional Record, committee information, and historical documents
• Information on committee meetings.
• Contacts - Constituents may identify and/or contact their elected Member
• Access to the basic documents of U.S. law. Full text searchable copies of the U.S. Code (a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the US).
• Note that the Internet Law Library is no longer hosted here. It can be found in various new forms, including at the LawGuru site).

The White House provides information on the President and the Vice President, as well as the history of past presidents and of the White House itself. There is a good section for children.

US Department of Justice links to government departments and agencies relating to legal matters. There are also press release and reports relating to issues of current interest.

The Library of Congress site is designed both for lawyers and for members of the public. As well as serious legal material, it has several unique public-oreiented features including "American Memory" Exhibits, a searching engine called Thomas (after Jefferson) and current and changing events and exhibits.

Substantive Law, collected and maintained by researcher Randy Singer.
He says "It would be very convenient if all state and federal codes, statutes, and caselaw were available on the World Wide Web. This would give lay people easy access to the laws that they must follow and it would allow attorneys to do legal research without having to leave their office to go to a law library, or pay for expensive collections of casebooks.

Unfortunately, economic realities dictate that we may never see all of the substantive law of all the states on the Web. Several states receive quite a bit of income by selling the exclusive rights to publish that state's caselaw. In addition, it is quite expensive to publish and maintain a web site, and money for such a project is not available in all states. Caselaw on the Web ideally would include decisions from at least the last 30 years, a sophistocated search engine for locating relevant law, case summaries, headnotes, etc. Providing all of these on a Web site would be very expensive.

Given the above, it is impressive how much substantive law is already available on the Web. Every state now has a Web site with some substantive law posted. Unfortunately the quality, accessibility, and completeness vary considerably from state to state. Rarely will you see more than the last few years of a states supreme court opinions on the Web. Often the opinions that you find will only be summaries. You will almost never see headnotes included. And though many sites allow you to search for a case by name, they often dont provide an index so that you can determine which cases are available."

Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions,is authored by Martin H Sampson of US lawfirm Davidoff Malito & Hutcher. The site is one of the web's foremost case digests, providing in-depth analysis of over 460 US court decisions affecting those who do business on the Internet. Court decisions are organized by subject matter. The user is provided with a brief synopsis of the court's decision. If the decision is of interest, a link takes the user to a more thorough analysis. As part of a current update of the site, pdfs of all court decisions analyzed will be provided as well. An electronic newsletter, Internet Law Update, is available to provide users with the latest cases added to the Library. A full text search engine is also available to assist in utilizing the Library's resources. The Internet Library has analyzed cases covering a broad array of topics, including trademark and copyright infringement, dilution, use of meta tags, links, thumbnails and framing, browse wrap, click wrap and shrink wrap agreements, domain name disputes, internet service provider liability, subpoenas, online defamation, gripe sites, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, jurisdiction, the legality of gambling on the Internet, search engine advertising, licensing requirements for the operation of an online pharmacy and automobile distributorship, the legality of keying and cookies, use of e-mail in the work place, spam, the legality of pop-up ads and spyware, and First Amendment issues arising out of governmental regulation of the Internet, among others.

In terms of State news and information, many States and also Cities have their own sites, for example:
California Law
Pennsylvania's Legal Information Network
New York Law Journal

A very original and always developing site (no static lists of out-of-date references here) is maintained by USA expert Brad Hillis on a site he calls Gates to Northwest Law. There is a list of all the USA state laws, international laws, standards and general information about Digital Signatures, as well as a compendium site for Government e-commerce sites, by which he means everything to do with Governments (USA and international) allowing transactions via the Internet. There is also a page of all the USA states offering free case law.

American Law Sources Online is a useful new source of law for the USA, Canada and Mexico. There are sections offering federal, state or province law sources, as well as commentaries and practice aids.

University Sites and Law Libraries

A comprehensive listing of legal sites and sources in the USA called The World Wide Web Virtual Library, a project developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3) at the University of Indiana. This provides lists of material organised by legal topic (Constitutional Law, Copyright...) and also by type or source (Treaty, Legislation...). You can also reach an alphabetic list of Law Schools & Libraries and an alphabetic list of Law Firms on the web, with many hundreds of firms listed including some UK ones. You can enter your own firm into this database, by filling in a form online.

The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School offers the Institute's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and other federal, state, and international material.

Another impressive academic site is based at the University of Texas and calls itself
The Internet Legal Resource Guide. Two pages of particular interest included here are

Law and Policy Institutions, provided by law student Randy Roberts, operates as a point of access for legal and legislative information, both USA based and internationally. Each general category provides a series of links, each accompanied by a brief commentary, to the most useful and most frequently consulted legal resources. In particular, the site provides articles of original research, analysis and expression with an emphasis on contemporary legal developments.

Jurist: The Law Professors' Network links materials prepared by (mainly) American Law Professors but with the aim of becoming a multi-national academic resource. There is a "legal news" section as well as links to a number of subject-based legal collections and course material.

Another University based set of references is provided by Chicago-Kent University. This enables the user to search by general topic and then lists a number of sources for the topic chosen.

The American Bar Association