Law Library

Search the law from
inside your matter

Case law, statute annotations, judge profiles, AG and ethics opinions, 50-state surveys, tax rulings and agency decisions, each searched on its own. Searching is free on every plan. A subscription adds the AI on top.

Start searching with a free account See what's in it

What's in it

854,578 documents we prepared ourselves, plus federal and state case law. Each one is searched on its own, so a tax question doesn't return ethics opinions.

Case Law

Federal & state courts

Published and unpublished opinions, with citation analysis that shows who has cited a case and how deeply.

Judge Analytics

4,985 judges across 207 courts

How individual federal judges actually rule, drawn from their own signed orders rather than from reputation.

Browse free

AG Opinions

22,407 opinions from 35 states and DC

State attorney general opinions, persuasive authority on state law questions, with the answer up front.

Browse free

Ethics Opinions

16,553 opinions from 69 bars and ethics boards

Conflicts, fees, trust accounts and advertising. The rule, without reading the whole ruling.

Browse free

50-State Surveys

9,265 state answers across 186 topics

The same question answered for all 50 states, side by side, each one checked against its own source.

Browse free

Statute Annotations

649,035 case notes across 1182 statute sections

For each statute section, the cases that construed it: one-sentence holdings with verbatim quotes, linked to the full opinions.

Browse free

Case Citator

15,596 cases screened

Is a case still good law? What later courts actually did to it, each treatment quoted verbatim from the citing opinion.

Browse free

State Tax Rulings

34,340 rulings from 27 states

State revenue department letter rulings and advisory opinions, with the question answered first.

Browse free

IRS Rulings

45,458 written determinations

Private letter rulings, chief counsel advice and determinations, in plain English, and flagged as non-precedential.

Browse free

Agency Decisions

63,882 decisions

OSHA and MSHA review commission and ALJ decisions: what was decided, and whether it counts as precedent.

Browse free

Labor Guidance

8,653 documents from 8 states and federal agencies

Federal and state labor-agency opinion letters and policies on wages, leave and retaliation.

Browse free

The surveys answer for all 50 states. The others cover the states listed above, and we say so here so you don't find out mid-argument.

The Ezel Law Library, listing each kind of authority you can search
The law library

Pick the kind of authority, then search

A single box searching everything sounds better than it reads. Ask about a fee-sharing arrangement and you don't want OSHA decisions in the results. So you pick the kind of document first, and every filter, snippet and label after that is the right one for it.

  • Each kind has its own filters: state, court, bar, year, topic
  • Filters only offer states we actually cover
  • Recent searches are kept, and can be cleared one at a time
  • Nothing to install and nothing to configure. It's already in your sidebar
AG opinion search results, each showing the question and the answer
Plain English first

The answer before the document

Every AG opinion, ethics opinion, tax ruling and IRS determination has been read and rewritten as the question it answers and the answer it gives. You can tell from the results list whether a document is worth opening, which is most of the work.

  • A real question as the title, not a docket number
  • The holding in the first two lines, in plain English
  • The matching text from the original, highlighted
  • Citation, issuing body and date on every result
What a result looks like:

"Can a North Dakota sheriff's office refuse to release inmate disciplinary records under an open records request?" No violation. The AG concluded the office properly withheld institutional discipline and protective management records…

Judge Analytics results showing how federal judges rule on qualified immunity
Judge Analytics

How your judge actually rules

Search by name to read a judge's profile, or search by the issue to find every judge whose record speaks to it. The profiles are built from the judges' own signed orders, not from anecdote or from a survey of lawyers who lost.

  • Search a name, or search "qualified immunity" and see who has ruled on it
  • Every profile says how many signed rulings it was drawn from
  • Court, appointing president and status on each result
  • Results say plainly when a judge is only mentioned, not matched by name
A 50-state survey question answered for Pennsylvania, Missouri, New Jersey and Arizona
50-State Surveys

The same question, every state

The research that used to mean fifty tabs and a spreadsheet. One question, like how much home equity a judgment can't reach or how long a mechanic's lien lasts, answered for every state. Each answer carries the date it was last checked against its own source.

  • Dozens of topics, each answered for all 50 states
  • Every answer names its statute and the date it was verified
  • Says so when a state has no rule, instead of leaving a blank
  • Compare states side by side, or filter to the one you need
Case law results with Open in Chat and Open in Document Editor on every case
Case Law

Published and unpublished, with the next step attached

Federal and state opinions, filtered by court, jurisdiction and year. Analyze Citations on any case shows who has cited it and how deeply, so you can see whether a precedent has been followed, distinguished or quietly left alone.

  • Filter by jurisdiction, court level and year range
  • Include or exclude unpublished decisions
  • Citation analysis: who cited this case, and how substantively
  • Full opinions read in place, no second window
Every result, in one click:

Open in Chat to ask about it, or Open in Document Editor to start drafting from it, with the citation already carried across.

What's free, and what you pay for

Searching is free on every plan, including the free one. A subscription adds the AI layer on top.

On every plan, free

No trial, no credit card, no per-search cost.

  • Search every one of them
  • Read every document in full
  • Filters, citations and verification dates
  • Keep your recent searches across sessions

What a subscription adds

For when a list of results isn't enough on its own.

  • Research report: a written answer on a case law question, with citations
  • Ask AI: a chat that already knows what you are searching
  • It knows what the authority is worth. An IRS determination binds nobody else. An AG opinion is persuasive, and speaks as of its date
  • Open in Chat and Open in Document Editor on every result, citation carried across
  • The rest of Ezel: matters, drafting, redaction and court filings

Stop paying per search

Make a free account and search the whole library. Upgrade later if you want the AI on top.

Start searching with a free account View pricing