New York Law
by Caroline Young
last revised May, 2011
NOTE: All of the web sites listed on this Internet Guide provide free resources unless otherwise indicated.
Contents
- Constitution
- Statutes, Bills, & Legislative History
- Court Rules & other Judiciary Materials
- Court Decisions & Proceedings
- Ethics Codes & Opinions
- Executive Orders & Proclamations
- Agencies, Rules, and Regulations
- Administrative Decisions
- Attorney General's Opinions and Briefs
- Municipalities & Counties
- Legal newspapers
- Topical sites
- Other Sites
- New York State Legislature This site includes the current New York Constitution. Click on "Laws of New York". Scroll all the way down to "Miscellaneous" and click on "CNS".
- New York State Senate This is another link to the New York State Constitution. Available in Microsoft Word .doc Format.
N.Y. Statutes, Bills, & Legislative History
- New York State Legislature This site contains the New York unannotated code, New York State Legislative Resolutions, and New York State Legislative Bills. Legislative Session Information can be searched for the years 1995-present. Click on "Laws of New York" under the Search heading to access the unannotated statutes.
- New York State Assembly Provides links to current legislative information including a link to search for current New York State bills by bill number or by keyword.
- New York State Legislative Bills Search from the State Assembly website
- Assembly Member Directory
- New York State Senate Provides links to current legislative information.
- Senate Member Directory Includes the ability to search for your Senator by address.
- New York State Laws from Findlaw Findlaw offers access to NY state laws and provides the ability to search by keyword or citation.
- Guide to New York Legislative History A step-by-step guide to doing legislative history in New York, provided by the New York State Library. In addition to the tutorial, take a look at the separate page on legislative intent for additional helpful information.
- New York Legislature Bill Search
- New York Archives Links to New York Bill Jackets
- Senate Videos Access video recordings of legislative sessions including live streamed events.
- Live Assembly Proceedings Live audio and video of legislative proceedings of the state Assembly
- NY State Library Digital Collection Searchable database that contains Senate and Assembly Journals back to the mid 1990s, although the most recent years are not included.
Fee-Based Legislative Information
- Legislative Retrieval System This is a fee-based service that provides access to full-text New York State legislative information.
N.Y. Court Rules & other Judiciary Material
- New York State Unified Court System Official homepage of the New York State Court system. Includes links to homepages of some individual courts, selected court decisions, a guide to New York courts, selected court rules and legal forms..
- CourtHelp Includes information on representing yourself, including Forms
- Administrative Rules of the Unified Court System & Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts
- Forms
- Criminal Jury Instructions 2d: Official jury instructions for criminal cases.
- Judicial Directory
- New York Court of Appeals Homepage Includes court rules, information about the court and its judges, as well as recent decisions.
- Record Press Links to Record Press’s set of PDF format pamphlets that highlight the most relevant New York State appellate rules, including the four departments of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Divisions.
- Findlaw Court Forms for New York State
- New York Law Journal Judges’ Part Rules Access to the Judges' Part Rules is free, requiring a one-time registration.
Fee-Based Forms
- Downloadable Forms: Purchase downloadable forms from the New York State Bar Association organized by practice areas and topics.
N.Y. Court Decisions & Proceedings
- New York State Unified Court System Links to recent decisions from the Court of Appeals, First, Second, Third and Fourth Appellate Departments, Supreme Court Civil and Criminal decisions from many counties, Commercial Division, Commercial Division New York County, Court of Claims, and the Official Reports.
- Appellate Courts
- Court of Appeals (Highest Appeals) decisions from 1990-2006 and 2010 from Cornell's Legal Information Institute
- Court of Appeals (Highest Appeals)decisions from 1997 forward, as well as an archive of Opinion Summaries from September 2000 to the Present from FindLaw. Court of Appeals (Highest Appeals) decisions from the current year and the prior year only
- Appellate Divisions (Intermediate Appeals)
- Appellate Division, First Department decisions from October, 2003-present
- Appellate Division, Second Department decisions from October, 2003-present
- Appellate Division, Third Department decisions from August 23, 2001-present
- Appellate Division, Fourth Department decisions from 2008-present
- Trial Courts
- Supreme Court Civil and Criminal decisions, dating back to 2001 from eCourts
- New York State Court of Claims decisions March, 2000-present
- eCourts Find future appearance dates for cases in Criminal, Family and Housing Court. View information on both active and disposed cases in Civil Supreme and Local Civil Courts. Sign up for eTrack case tracking service to receive email updates and appearance reminders for Civil Supreme and Local Civil Court cases.
- Law.com/ny includes selections from The New York Law Journal. Opinions are available by subscription only. Daily features and opinions may be read on-line.
N.Y. Ethics Codes & Ethics Opinions
Attorneys
- Resources on Professional Standards for Attorneys in New York State
- NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics opinions
- New York County Lawyers Association ethics opinions archived back to 1912
- Proposed New York Rules of Professional Conduct
- Disciplinary Proceedings Committees
N.Y. Executive Orders & Proclamations
N.Y. Agencies, Rules and Regulations
- New York State Government Information Locator Service provides a single point of access to information services provided by New York State Government agencies, the State Legislature and the Judiciary.
- N.Y. Department of State - Division of Administrative Rules Provides information on the N.Y. state administrative rulemaking process.
- New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR) official page for the state agency rules and regulations adopted under the State Administrative Procedure Act (SAPA).
- Unofficial NYCRR is searchable with an expandable table of contents and is maintained by Thomson West.
- New York State Register This website is maintained by West under contract with the New York Department of State to provide free public access to the full text of the New York State Register.
- New York Government Agencies Provides links to websites of New York State, county and local government agencies.
- Education Department
- Insurance Department
- Public Employment Relations Board
- Department of Taxation and Finance
- Workers Compensation Board
- New York State Agency Web Sites & Publications Contains links to New York State agency websites as well as publications provided through the N.Y. State Library.
- Department of State
- New York State Agencies Selected New York agencies, some of which make the full-text of their decisions available on their websites
- Office of Administrative Hearings Contains administrative hearings for 15 of the occupations regulated by the Department of State.
N.Y. Attorney General's Opinions and Briefs
- New York State Attorney General opinions issued since 1995 and significant briefs from the United States Supreme Court, New York Court of Appeals, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Other Courts
N.Y. Municipalities and Counties
New York City
- New York City Charter Revision Commission Links to the New York City Charter as amended through December, 2009
- New York City Courts Description of and links to the different New York City trial courts
- CityAdmin A library of decisions decided by New York City agencies from the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School
- New York City Homepage
- New York City Council
- New York City Public Advocate
Other Cities
- General Code Many of New York’s municipal charters, codes, and ordinances are widely available at this website.
- Municipal Code Corporation Some New York jurisdictions provide access to their charters, codes, and ordinances at this website
- New York State Click on “Counties” or “Cities and Towns” to retrieve access to county and cities websites, some of which have access to courts and legislation
- New York State Association of Counties Find county homepages and other information.
- The Complete Lawyer: The Complete Lawyer is an electronic newsletter provided to all members of the New York State Bar Association as a courtesy. The Complete Lawyer covers issues such as law firm marketing, work-life balance, graying of the profession and workplace conflict.
Fee-based publications from the New York State Bar Association
- Bar Journal: The New York State Bar Association Journal features substantive articles relating to the practice of law in New York State. It is published nine times per year and distributed to members free of charge, as a benefit of membership.
- State Bar News: The State Bar News is the official publication of the New York State Bar Association and provides members with up-to-date information about Association events and matters of interest to legal professionals.
- NY Law Digest Online Edition: Professor David Siegel's NY Law Digest offered as an archive of PDF documents dating from 2002 to the present. Law Digest is published monthly and is a New York Bar members-only publication.
- N.Y. State Government: Overviews, guides, and contact information regarding a variety of topics including Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), child custody, and parole and probation.
- New York State Homepage
- Court Law Libraries locations and telephone numbers