Curtis Memorial Library

Finding a Law Library

Maine State Law Library "serves the public by providing legal and governmental information services, without discrimination, to the people of Maine, their government, and the legal community."

Cleaves Law Library, the library of the Cumberland County Bar Association

Finding Laws

Maine Revised Statutes

Legislative Bulletin

Regulations of the Maine State Departments and Agencies

Maine Legislative Documents(bills under consideration in Augusta)

Legislative Documents and Carryover Update List

United States Code

Code of Federal Regulations

NAFTA: North American Free Trade Agreement

Internet Law Library

CongreSearch (tutorials to find Congressional materials in the Library and on the Internet)
Finding Legal Aid

If you have low income, you may be able to get free or inexpensive legal aid from one of these agencies:

Legal Services for the Elderly

Volunteer Lawyers Project

Pine Tree Legal Assistance provides legal services to low income people. On their website you can find a number of their client education publications, covering rights of tenants, protection from abuse, protection from harassment, and several other topics.

Finding other links to legal information

Around the Web in Eighty Minutes: 88 links for legal and factual research, linked from the Pine Tree Legal Assistance website :

• Maine Law Sites
• Other State Law Sites
• Federal Law Sites
• Consumer Law
• Disability Law
• Education Law
• Elder Law
• Employment Law
• Family Law
• Health Law
• Housing Law
• Immigration Law
• Social Security
• Welfare Law
  

Links to Maine and national legal resources on the web as selected by the staff at Maine State Law Library
Findlaw ...one of the best known and most popular legal info links
Nolo Press Self-Help Legal Center contains basic legal information, including an online legal encyclopedia , covering dozens of topics including wills, real estate, immigration, personal injury, and small business. Nolo is a major publisher of legal self-help books.

Federal Government Contacting your Senators and Representatives:

• Senator Susan Collins home page

E-mail to Senator Susan Collins

• Senator Olympia Snowe home page

E-mail to Senator Olympia Snowe

• Congressman Tom Allen home page

E-mail to Congressman Tom Allen

• Congressman Michael Michaud home page

E-mail to Congressman Michael Michaud

Other Federal resources:

• Core Documents of U. S. Democracy
• Federal Web Locator a quick way to find Federal web sites; maintained by Villanova University
• FEDSTATS is a Federal government website that provides easy access to statistics and information published by more than 70 U. S. agencies.
• Bowdoin College Library Government Documents Depository, excellent set of links to the web sites maintained by the U. S. Government, and info about the printed documents available for reference at the Bowdoin College Library.
• Library of Congress Catalog in WWW format
• Library of Congress Catalog in text-based interface (via telnet) more complete than the WWW catalog, linked above.
• THOMAS, Legislative Information from Library of Congress.
• GPO [Government Printing Office] Access Databases; full-text retrieval from about two dozen popular U. S. government databases, including the U. S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, and the Congressional Record.