Online guide to finding United States legal information in languages other than English written by Mark E. Poorman, an attorney licensed to practice law in Texas and California who also holds a Masters Degree in Law Librarianship and Legal Informatics. The guide provides background information to the US legal system and statistics relating to the number of people living in the US for whom English is not their first language. The guide points out that most non-English legal information is found on the web and links are provided to sites such as the Maryland's Peoples Law Library, the California Courts Self-Help Center and LegalAid-GA.org along with other key sources of federal and state law. Mention is made of the printed sources available and libraries with collections of non-English legal materials in the US The guide also gives tips to researchers and librarians searching for this sort of information and using electronic translation services. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.
Sources of United States of America legal information in languages other than English
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