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General Collections of Legal Forms
A guide to the most popular collections of legal forms.
General form books can be divided into two main categories:
- Pleading and practice forms are used for filing motions with the court during a lawsuit or criminal trial. Examples include complaints, answers, replies, and counterclaims. Often individual court Web sites will provide forms that follow the rules of that specific court.
- Transactional instruments are used for legal situations that are not necessarily litigious in nature. Examples include leases, contracts, and wills.
UNT Sources
- 101 Law Forms for Personal Use (Nolo
Press)
Call Number KF170 .L46 1998
Located at Government Documents Service Desk - Ready-to-use forms, checklists, and contracts for a variety of everyday legal and practical transactions that most Americans can safely handle without formal legal help.
- American Jurisprudence Legal Forms (Lawyer’s Cooperative Publishing)
Call Number KF170 .A542
Located on Third Floor, Willis Library - This multi-volume set offers step-by-step guidance
in preparing the appropriate form for virtually any legal need in every
jurisdiction in the United States—state and federal—plus variations adapted
for important differences in the law in individual jurisdictions.
It is organized like the American Jurisprudence legal encyclopedia, with broad topics arranged alphabetically and numbered sections within each topic defining specific subtopics. To find the form, check the index volumes to identify the topic name and section number. The topics are usually abbreviated, so you may need to check the abbreviation table in the index volumes.
Web Sources
- FindForms.com
- Searchable database containing thousands of free legal forms.
- Forms Room (’Lectric Law Library)
- The Internet’s biggest collection of legal forms, broken up into two broad overlapping categories: Law Practice and Business.
- Free Legal Forms (Goodman Law Firm)
- Links to U.S. and state forms (the arrangement is alphabetic, but sources and topics are mixed together).
- GAMA Forms (Global Arbitration Mediation Association, Inc.)
- Contains GAMA forms related to arbitration and mediation.
- ILRG Legal Forms Archive (Internet Legal Research Group)
- Large collection of free legal forms, many adapted for state-specific use.
- Legaldocs (USA Law Publications, Inc.)
- Interactive document preparation service, currently free. Fill in the form, submit, and instantly obtain a completed will, contract, lease, or other document.