LibGuides: Dorraine Zief Law Library Digital Legal Research Collection: Resources by Topic

Introduction

This is a list of the major online legal resources available via the Zief Law Library, arranged by topic or area of law. Online resources that cover multiple topics or areas of law are listed in the Resources A to Z section of this guide. Information on who may use these resources is available in this guide's Overview.

For non-legal online research sources available at USF, see Gleeson Library's Databases page. Gleeson's page is organized both by subject and alphabetically.

Gleeson Library - Databases This link opens in a new window
Research databases for finding articles, news, dissertations, statistics, books, and more.
This A-to-Z list of databases also lets you view databases by subject, type, and vendor. For multi-disciplinary databases, select "Multi-Subject" from the "All Subjects" pull-down menu.

Antitrust

Antitrust Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practical guidance on M&A and other topics; sample forms; legal analysis (including BNA antitrust treatises and practice guides); DOJ Antitrust Division documents; FTC decisions and documents; state antitrust law materials; news; laws and regulations; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Banking

Banking & Finance Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practical guidance; transactional documents and forms; analytics and trackers; legal analysis (including banking treatises and practice guides); federal and state agency documents; news; laws and regulations; and court opinions [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practical guidance and forms; legal analysis (including BNA portfolios and practice guides); news; company information; statutes; court rules; dockets; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Benefits / ERISA

Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Statutes and regulations; case law; transactional resources and other practice tools; dockets; agency materials, books and treatises; BNA portfolios and analyses; an ERISA Class Action Tracker; charts; news and commentary. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Corporate / Business

Corporate Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practical guidance; trackers & analytics; legal analysis (including banking treatises and practice guides); federal and state agency documents; news; laws and regulations (including state business and compliance laws; and court opinions. Also covers franchise law. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Employment & Labor

Labor & Employment Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Statutes and regulations; case law; dockets; agency materials, books and treatises (From BNA and other publishers); transactional resources and other practice tools; BNA Manuals; state & local comparison charts; BNA portfolios; news and commentary; and more. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
LawMemo.com This link opens in a new window
Employment law case law database and three newsletters: Employment Law Memo, NLRB Memo, and Arbitration Memo. [For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. Advance registration at the LawMemo sign-up page is required. For help, speak to a Zief Law Library research librarian.]

Environmental Law

Environmental & Safety Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: legal analysis (including BNA portfolios, treatises, and practice guides); federal agency documents; news; laws and regulations; dockets; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
E & E Publishing - Environmental Law This link opens in a new window
Environmental topical reports and newsletters. Newsletters include: Land Letter, Environment & Energy Daily, E&ENews PM, ClimateWire, and GreenWire. [USF campus only.]

Estate Planning

Health, Medicine & Biotechnology

Health Care Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Statutes and regulations; case law; dockets; agency materials, books and treatises (from BNA and other publishers); transactional resources and other practice tools; BNA Manuals; state & local comparison charts; BNA portfolios; health care reform trackers; other news and commentary; and more. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Immigration

Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S. - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Includes BIA Precedent Decisions, hearings, legislative histories, laws, regulations, policy studies, scholarly articles, and an extensive bibliography, and other related works.

Intellectual Property

Patents & Trade Secrets Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practice tools and practical guidance; litigation analytics; legal analysis (including BNA IP treatises and practice guides); news; laws and regulations; and court opinions. Also includes: United States Patents Quarterly and USPTO guidance documents. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Trademarks & Copyrights Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practice tools and practical guidance; litigation analytics; legal analysis (including BNA IP treatises and practice guides); news; laws and regulations; and court opinions. Also includes: United States Patents Quarterly and TTAB decisions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Tech & Telecom - Media Law - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Legal analysis; laws and regulations; news; and state and federal case law. [Requires individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Intellectual Property Law Collection - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Focuses on copyrights, patents and trademarks in the United States and includes nearly 2 million pages of legislative histories, treaties, and classic intellectual property texts. Includes Manual of Patent Examining Procedure and Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure

International Trade

International Trade Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Legal analysis, practical guidance and practice tools, free-trade agreements, news, statutes, regulations, and cases. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Legal Ethics / Professional Responsibility

General Litigation & Ethics - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Primarily books, treatises, BNA portfolios and other secondary sources, along with court rules, selected forms, and news. Also includes the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct and Bloomberg Law Insights: Professional Responsibility. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Litigation & Civil Procedure

Litigation Intelligence Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: litigation analytics; docket search; sample briefs; court opinions; laws & regulations; news; multiple search options. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
General Litigation & Ethics - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Primarily books, treatises, BNA portfolios and other secondary sources, along with court rules, selected forms, and news. Also includes the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct and Bloomberg Law Insights: Professional Responsibility. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
E-Discovery Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: legal analysis (including BNA portfolios, treatises, and practice guides); sample pleadings & forms; federal and state rules; news; laws; dockets; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Legal History

Judges and the Judiciary - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts. Features William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010. Also includes Federal Judicial Center publications, articles, CFR Title 28 (Judicial Administration), and other related works.
Early American Case Law - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Includes: Federal Cases (1894-1897) and the so-called "Trinity Series" — American Decisions (1760 to 1869), American Reports (1870-1887), and American State Reports (1888 to 1911). Also includes: Mining Reports (1883-1906), Abbott's National Digest (1884-1889), and American Leading Cases (1872).
English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867) - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
More than 100,000 English cases, spanning seven centuries, plus Statutes of the Realm, (1235-1713).
History of Supreme Court Nominations - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Includes the complete Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. A Browse-by-Justice option allows you to see relevant documents related to that Justice — including nomination hearing transcripts, links to articles, and a bibliography of other works.
Legal Classics Library - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Full-text, exact page images of over 1,400 classic law books, including many early American, British, and Commonwealth titles.
LLMC Digital This link opens in a new window
Historical full-text case reports, administrative law decisions, government documents, early law books, canon law documents, and more, with exact page images. Use the "Research Zone" links on the home page to begin your search. (Tip for Mac users: try Safari or Chrome.)
Making of Modern Law - Legal Treatises 1800 to 1926 This link opens in a new window
Over 22,000 pre-1926 English and American legal treatises covering almost 100 subjects. Fully searchable, with exact page images. (From Gale Cenage Learning.)
Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Original source materials on "the history of
the law, development of legal ideas, the legal profession, the courts, judges and lawyers, literature and legal
records, and essentially everything that is characteristic of English common law and the legal system."
Session Laws Library - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Session laws (chronological, official laws) of all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Also covers the United States (U.S. Statutes at Large), Canada, and Australia. "All states are current within 60 days of the printed publication, and all states are available back to inception."
State Statutes: A Historical Archive - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Superseded state statutes for all fifty states, with coverage extending back to 1717. Searchable by state, date, description, and text.
Statutes of the Realm - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
English statutes enacted between 1235 and 1714.
Supreme Court Records and Briefs (1832-1978) This link opens in a new window
Searchable, exact page images of U.S. Supreme Court petitions, briefs, and other documents. (From Gale Cenage Learning.)
World Trials Library - HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Materials related to notable trials. Includes: trial transcripts; other court documents; books analyzing trials; biographies of trial lawyers.

Privacy

Privacy & Data Security Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Practical guidance and practice tools; expert analysis (treatises, country profiles, portfolios); transactional materials; news & current awareness. Covers: data protection; electronic data management; digital privacy; electronic surveillance; consumer privacy; data breaches; cybercrime; and health data privacy. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Tech & Telecom - Media Law - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Legal analysis; laws and regulations; news; and state and federal case law. [Requires individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Securities Regulation

Securities Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Includes: practice tools and practical guidance; legal analysis, including BNA securities law treatises and practice guides; EDGAR search; deal analytics; SEC enforcement analytics; due diligence resources; SEC documents; news; laws and regulations; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Taxation

Tax Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Federal, state and international tax materials. Includes: "expert analysis" (BNA portfolios and other practice guides, books and treatises); primary law; agency documents & guidance; cases & court rules; practice tools and forms; and news. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Checkpoint - Tax Research (Access for Individual Checkpoint ID holders) This link opens in a new window
Tax laws, regulations, IRS documents, explanations, and analysis. Includes Checkpoint's Catalyst product.
Students in USF's J.D. and masters degree taxation programs are eligible for individual, semester-long Checkpoint IDs. To request an individual Checkpoint ID, go to the USF Checkpoint registration site. Enter your MyUSF credentials to access the site, and then sign up using your USF email address.
Checkpoint - Tax Research (On Campus Access) This link opens in a new window
Tax laws, regulations, IRS documents, explanations, and analysis. Includes Checkpoint's Catalyst product.
[This link is for on-campus access for USF affiliates who are not in the law school's J.D. or taxation masters programs. USF J.D. and taxation masters-degree students with their own Checkpoint passwords should use the Checkpoint site for individual passwords holders.]

Technology / Cyberlaw

Privacy & Data Security Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Practical guidance and practice tools; expert analysis (treatises, country profiles, portfolios); transactional materials; news & current awareness. Covers: data protection; electronic data management; digital privacy; electronic surveillance; consumer privacy; data breaches; cybercrime; and health data privacy. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]
Tech & Telecom Practice Center - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Covers communications, data privacy and security, tech & internet law, and media law. Includes: transactional and practice tools, and practical guidance; legal analysis, including BNA treatises and practice guides; news; laws and regulations; and court opinions. [Requires an individual Bloomberg Law account.]

Telecommunications

Tech & Telecom - Communications Law Practice - Bloomberg Law This link opens in a new window
Practical guidance; expert analysis; news; court and agency decisions; laws and regulations. [Requires individual Bloomberg Law account.]