Legal and Paralegal Research: General Online and Print Sources

• New York Reports 2d series (Official reporter of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals)
• Appellate Division Reports (A.D. or AD and Appellate Division Reports 2d. This is the official reporter of opinions from the Appellate Division.)
• Miscellaneous Reports (This is the official reporter of select opinions from the New York Supreme Court and other lower New York courts.)
• New York Supplement 2d series (Unofficial reporter containing reported decisions of the Court of Appeals, Appellate Division, Supreme Court and other lower courts.)

• West's New York Digest, 4th ed (locate case law using West's key number system.)

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• New York State Court Decisions
  http://www.nycourts.gov/decisions/index.shtml
• New York State Slip Opinions
  http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/Decisions.htm
• New York Court of Appeals Opinions (from 1990 forward)
  http://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• Shepard's New York Statute Citations: Citations for the New York state constitution, state statutes, administrative regulations and court rules.
• Shepard's New York Miscellaneous Citations: Citations for reported cases from the New York Supreme Court, attorney general opinions and selected New York administrative opinions.
• Shepard's New York Court of Appeals Citations: Citations for cases from New York's highest court

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• Westlaw: Keycite
• Lexis/Nexis: Shepard's

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• Journal of Court Reporting
• National Law Journal
• New York Law Journal
• New York State Bar Association Journal
• Paralegal Today

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Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• Findlaw www.findlaw.org
• Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org
• United States Government Printing Office http://www.gpo.gov
• Library of Congress Congressional Research Service http://thomas.loc.gov
• Reflaw http://washlaw.edu
• Legal Information Institute from the Cornell Law School http://www.law.cornell.edu

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
  (Source for legal citations)

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017

• Law.com Dictionary- http://dictionary.law.com
• Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations (Useful for deciphering legal acronyms and abbreviations)
• Black's Law Dictionary (standard legal dictionary)
  (Useful for deciphering legal acronyms and abbreviations)

**Compiled by Jane Devine - Revised 8/04
Revised by Alexandra Rojas - 2017