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?
The Law Library Association of St. Louis is housed on the 13th and 13th Mezzanine Floors of the Civil Courts Building. The library is just under the pyramidal top and looking out among the Greek columns.
The Law Library Association proudly collaborates with the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL). Here's what Susan McCourt Baltz, Executive Director of BAMSL had to say in our recent Q and A with her.
What inspires BAMSL to support and collaborate with LLA?
Here’s a sliver of what you can learn at two exhibits at the Law Library.
In advance of its upcoming exhibit on The Freedom Suits (co-sponsored with the Freedom Suits Memorial Foundation), the Law Library Association invites you to check out various resources to learn more about what these lawsuits represented. Below are some resources for you.
Juneteenth has evolved to be a celebration of freedom, a time of reflection on our history, and a time for education on civil rights and racial inequality. Originally, it was a celebration of the specific date that the news of emancipation reached the last enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865.