Tulsa Law Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Dedicated to the U.S. Supreme Court Fall 1997 A Practitioner's Guide to Free Legal Information on the Internet Mike Wilds Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/tlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Mike Wilds, A Practitioner's Guide to Free Legal Information on the Internet, 33 Tulsa L. J. 463 (2013). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.utulsa.edu/tlr/vol33/iss1/21 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by TU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tulsa Law Review by an authorized editor of TU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Wilds: A Practitioner's Guide to Free Legal Information on the Internet A PRACTITIONER'S GUIDE TO FREE LEGAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET Mike Wildst The single most significant technological event to impact society, and ultimately the legal community, since the advent of the computer is the expo- nential explosion of free, public domain information available over the Internet. Today, over 17% of U.S. households connect to the Internet.1 By the year 2001, this percentage is expected to rise to over 55%.2 Currently, over 75% of students at four-year colleges use electronic mail ("e-mail" regularly' and more than 90% of first year law students at the University of Tulsa have computers and are familiar with Internet access.4 Adjusting to this shifting economy and the changing psychographics, corporate America is racing to market goods and services over the Internet.