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What follows is the collection of links from the (soon-to-be-discontinued) Carnegie Legal Reporting Team at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Research links
Suggested reading and research assistance. To suggest a link or report a broken link, please contact us. Go here for CLRP’s collection of resources for documents-based reporting.
News
• Law.com (American Lawyer Media)
• Court TV
• Legal Times Supreme Court Watch
• Jurist Paper Chase
• FindLaw news page
• LNTV
• Washington Post Supreme Court page
• Slate’s Jurisprudence columns
• New York Times Supreme Court page
• ABC News Legal Center
• ABA Gavel Awards Archive
Judged the best in legal reporting by the American Bar Association.
• ABA Journal
News, monthly magazine, law blogs
• IRE’s justice journalism archive
From Investigative Reporters & Editors’ blog about notable projects
• Ticklethewire.com
Collects news about federal law enforcement.
Journalist and Reporting Resources
• Reporter’s Desktop
All-purpose research start page from The New York Times’ Duff Wilson
• Investigative Reporters and Editors
Story ideas and tips on technique from experts; links to online databases and reporting tools
• Center for Investigative Reporting
Criminal justice and judicial investigations
• Criminal Justice Journalists
See reporting resources in Information Center.
• Accuracy in Legal Journalism Reporting Code
Reminders about common flaws in legal reporting
• Journalist’s Guide to the Federal Courts
Administrative Office of U.S. Courts publication
• The Journalist’s Toolbox
American Press Institute
• Poynter’s crime and courts coverage bibliography
• Institute for Justice and Journalism
USC Annenberg
• Covering Crime and Justice
Comprehensive guide to the crime beat.
• Internet Research Clinic
From BBC researcher Paul Myers
• Legal Reporting Fellowships – Applicant Guidelines
These guidelines explain the Legal Reporting Fellowships program.
• Legal Reporting Fellowships – Application form
• Law and journalism careers
Cubreporters.org lists jobs at the crossroads, in legal journalism and media law
• Thecrimereport.org
Daily news summary and deep archives of crime reporting from Center for Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Blogroll – Law
• Legal Blog Watch
• Wall Street Journal Law Blog
• How Appealing
• SCOTUSblog
• Volokh Conspiracy
• Lessig Blog
• Bag and Baggage
• Balkinization
• Overlawyered
• Sentencing Law and Policy
• Bench Conference (Andrew Cohen)
• TechnoLawyer
• Above the Law
• Legal Pad (Roger Parloff)
• BlawgSearch
Includes directory and most-popular highlights.
• Legalities
ABC’s Jan Crawford Greenburg
• Talking Justice
Blogs and discussions from NPR’s Justice Talking program.
• Law Department Management
Hildebrandt’s Rees Morrison
• The BLT: Blog of Legal Times
• Legal Trade
Houston Chronicle’s Mary Flood
• Cal Law’s Legal Pad
From The Recorder in San Francisco
• Bob Ambrogi’s LawSites
What’s new and interesting in the legal online world?
• CQ’s Legal Beat
Reporting on the relationship between courts and Congress.
Blogroll – Media and Other Stuff
• Romenesko
• KausFiles
• InstaPundit
• Wonkette
• Gawker
• Dealbreaker
• Slashdot
Research and Court Records
• Cornell’s Legal Information Institute
A storehouse of court opinions, other research tools, or go to topic directory.
• FindLaw
A legal-info Yahoo, with court decision archives, definitions and background info (especially useful in the section for nonlawyers), and links to other resources. Or go straight to court and statute links, federal and state.
• Center for Investigative Reporting
Criminal justice and judicial investigations
• Pacer
Federal court files (subscription/pay site)
• Librarians’ Internet Index (law)
• Legal Metaindex
• Lawlink
Comprehensive index from American Bar Association
• IRE legal topic page
• Fedworld’s Supreme Court database
• Searchable Constitution
• Law Dictionary
• Famous Trials (Prof. Douglas Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City)
• Syracuse University College of Law Library
• Syracuse University Library System
• Supreme Court Times
All cases this term summarized with links to briefs and transcripts.
• Law.com Quest
Legal search engine, targeting American Lawyer Media publications and select other legal sites
• Medill’s On the Docket
Comprehensive resources on pending Supreme Court cases
• Actual innocence article database
Tarlton Law Library (UT Austin)
• Text of Jan. 14, 2009, order re cameras in Boston federal court
Other Court Info
• U.S. Supreme Court
• Federal Court Information (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
• New York State courts
• New York Court of Appeals
• U.S. District Court – Northern District of New York
• 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
• State Courts – Onondaga County, N.Y.
• Public Access to Court Records
A clearinghouse of info, much of it state-specific, on struggles over access, produced by National Center for State Courts
• National Center for State Courts
Studies and other info on how the courts are run
• National Center for Courts and Media
Training for judges and reporters; affiliated with The National Judicial College
• Cameras in the courts
Radio-Television News Directors Association, state by state list
• American Bar Association Judges Network
• U.S. Courts Educational Outreach
• Judicial Reports
News, commentary and election monitor focusing on New York state courts
• C-SPAN: America and the Courts
Justice and Other Government Stats
• TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse)
Syracuse University’s database of federal law enforcement records
• Government database list
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
Legal Profession
• Lawyer Directory
Martindale-Hubbell
• American Bar Association media relations
Contacts organized by topic; other industry info
• State and local bar association directory
• Lawyer discipline
General and state-specific info; ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
• New York lawyer directory and disciplinary records
• Onondaga County (Syracuse, N.Y.) Bar Association
• Syracuse University College of Law
• Top 100 law firms by revenue (The American Lawyer’s Am Law 100)
(registration required)
• Midlevel Associates Survey
Job satisfaction, large law firm associates, The American Lawyer (registration required)
• NALP
Industry studies
• U.S. Attorneys
Contact information
• New York Times legal profession page

Written by sportsmediaguy

May 25, 2010 at 8:05 pm

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