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With your membership, enjoy unlimited WestLaw and HeinOnline access at no cost! Our HeinOnline is also offered remotely, for accessible and convenient research from home. This perk alone saves attorneys and small firms thousands of dollars every year.

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     The Law Library Association prides itself on being accessible to non-lawyers.  We have a print collection containing the Missouri statutes, Missouri Digests, and Southwest Reports available for the pro se patron.  We have been obtaining or creating other resources to add to our collection that will be helpful to the unrepresented patron.  

If you make a visit to the newly renovated Old Courthouse in downtown St. Louis, you will learn that the Law Library Association used to be housed there. What is the connection between the Law Library and the historic courthouse that was the site of the original Dred Scott and other memorable trials in Missouri history?

The Law Library Association of St. Louis has just been awarded a grant from the St. Louis Bar Foundation. With this grant, we will expand access to justice for our Spanish-speaking community!

What this grant means to us:

We will be using this funding to formally translate four of our most-used pro se resources into Spanish, a language native to many of our patrons and community-members.

Recently, we have had several patrons ask us about AI legal research resources at the Law Library.

Answer: Not Yet!

Tools like Lexis+ AI and CoCounsel (by Casetext/Thomson Reuters) are exciting new products, but they are not available for free. They sit behind paid subscriptions, and most local practitioners, students, or members of the public will not have direct access.

The Law Library Association of St. Louis is committed to providing legal research materials for all its patrons, including our non-attorney patrons.  We have many print resources that specifically cater to self-representation.   

We have several pamphlets to assist our non-attorney patrons.  These include:

The Law Library Association of Saint Louis is unique among law libraries.  It is both a membership library and a public law library.  The library’s mission is to serve several different constituents -- the judiciary who preside over the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit, attorneys in the St. Louis area, the library’s members and public patrons. 

The Law Library Association of St. Louis is committed to providing legal research materials for all its patrons, including our non-attorney patrons.  We have several print resources that specifically cater to self-representation, including titles on self-representation in certain areas of law and how to do legal research.  Several of these titles can be downloaded as PDFs or eBooks from our online catalog. https://stllawlib.bywatersolutions.com/  

The Law Library Association of St. Louis, one of the oldest law libraries west of the Mississippi, was founded in May of 1838 by attorney Charles Drake.  What do we know about Drake?