Monday, November 15, 2004

Ohio Legal Services Consumer Legal Portal

Ohio Legal Services has developed a consumer-oriented legal portal, a set of pages focused on substantive areas of law that have links to informative articles or Web sites in those areas. The site, called the Ohio Law Library has advocates-only components as well, but the public aspect covers many common topics of interest to consumers, including healthcare, consumer rights, domestic violence, and wills.

The links are by no means comprehensive, but each one is annotated and explains why it was included on the site. The selective method is a great idea, since it points consumers directly to the information they seek, rather than just passing them forward to a site that must then be navigated before reaching the necessary information.

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