Legal Research Application

The vendor is required to provide for materials, functionality, or services may be billed over and above the rates set forth in the contract.
- Required materials
a. Legal materials, including any available archives and annotated versions
• Fifty state materials, including constitutions, codes, regulations, legislative materials, reported and unreported court cases, attorney general opinions, court rules, rules of civil procedure, rules of evidence, rules of appellate procedure, and administrative/agency decisions;
• Federal materials, including the constitution, code, regulations, legislative materials, reported and unreported court cases, court rules, rules of civil procedure, rules of evidence, rules of appellate procedure, rules of bankruptcy procedure, and administrative/agency decisions;
• medical and science materials, including food and drug;
• legal encyclopedias, including american jurisprudence, state jurisprudence, Ballentine’s and black’s law dictionaries, etc.;
• ALRs;
• Federal legislative histories;
• Ethics opinions;
• Citator services;
• State jury instructions;
• State practice materials, including state civil and criminal procedure with forms, state appellate procedure, state municipal law, state township law, etc.;
• Nichols on eminent domain;
• Commerce clearing house;
• Matthew bender;
• municipal and common pleas clerks case filings;
• State and federal tax cases;
• AICPA publications;
• ELI guidance and policy documents;
• Environmental law news, environmental law reporter, surface mining materials;
• Federal and state court briefs;
• Daubert materials;
• Expert witness testimony;
• labor arbitration decisions;
• Comparisons between codes of differing states;
• Securities laws;
• Legal form templates;
• Emerging issues;
• Jury awards and settlements; and
• A set of comprehensive treatises describing or analyzing the law nationwide in the subject areas that may be handled by the state courts, particularly the following subject areas:
o Administrative law;
o Attorney professional responsibilities/duties;
o Bankruptcy;
o Civil rights;
o Commercial transactions;
o Constitutional law;
o Consumer law;
o Contracts;
o Corporations and other legal entities
o Criminal law (including constitutional criminal law);
o Criminal procedure;
o Education and school law;
o Evidence;
o Family law (divorce, child support, parentage, assisted reproduction, parental rights, spousal support, grandparents’ rights, guardianships, adoptions);
o Federal practice and procedure;
o Insurance;
o Labor and employment law;
o land use/zoning/eminent domain;
o Municipal law;
o Public utilities;
o Real property (including foreclosures);
o Search and seizure, or criminal constitutional law generally;
o State and local taxation;
o Statutory construction;
o Torts;
o Wills and trusts; and
o Workers’ compensation.
b. Public records materials
• Public records for all 50 states (as available) including secretary of state information, real property records, bankruptcy records, filings, judgments and liens, personal property records (car, airplane, boat), professional licenses, drivers’ license records, and people locator, which must include full social security numbers;
• Access (which may be restricted to a limited number of users or have a monthly allowance) to dun and Bradstreet, gale company profiles, due diligence reports, secretary of state, etc.;
• Asset searches;
• Social security death records; and
• Company information including public records.
c. News
• Newspapers, magazines, journals, wire services, transcripts, etc.;
• Medical journals; and
• Scientific journals.
- Other requirements
• Provide a well-defined procedure to limit the ability to add, cancel, or change user ids to designated agency representatives. other agency staff may not receive id and sign-on help from the contractor for their IDs - this assistance must be requested and received from the designated agency representatives.
• The offeror must describe in its proposal the technical and editorial procedures it takes to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the data offered.
• The offeror must describe in its proposal its services as compared to the free legal research materials and tools otherwise available electronically.
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: May 15, 2025