In House Externship Resources

If your research involves searching court dockets, to track down current or past litigation, you can access dockets and trial court documents through Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg. Their coverage is not identical, so if you can't find the docket or court document that you need in one database, try the others.

Lexis CourtLink (Dockets)

Westlaw Dockets

Bloomberg Dockets

All three docket database are fairly comprehensive for federal court dockets but generally do not have all state court dockets. To search Washington state court dockets directly using the free court docket searches, see the information on Washington Dockets in the Law Library's guide on Free & Low-Cost Legal Research.

If your research involves searching for trial court documents, try these resources:

Westlaw Trial Court Documents

Lexis Briefs, Pleadings, and Motions

If you need help tracking down or accessing specific trial court documents, contact the Law Library and we can help!

If you need to research state or federal legislative or regulatory history, reach out to the Law Library and schedule a consultation with one of the librarians. We can help walk you through the process!

You can also consult this guide on Federal & State Legislative History from the Harvard Law Library for a general overview.

Fastcase and Lexis have fairly good coverage for case law from Tribal courts.

The National Indian Law Library is an excellent free resource for federal Indian and tribal law.

For more tips and resources, see the Seattle University Law Library's guide on Native American Law Research.

If you need to find information on a company or find data and statistics as part of your research, see the Business & Management guide and the Data & Statistics guide from the Seattle University Lemieux Library, or schedule a consultation with Jason Hall, the Seattle University Business & Economics Librarian.