Testimonials from our fans


  • "I have been a police officer for 25 years. I have relied upon LII for timely case law updates delivered in an easy to understand format. This service is wonderful! I read most all US Supreme Court Cases, whether they will directly impact me or not. More Americans should take an interest in our form of Government. To the students working on this project a simple "thank you" understates the power of your efforts. This resource is on par with or better than most of the paid legal sites available."​
  • "I use your work all the time in my job as legislative research analyst. It's really useful. Thanks!"
  • "I appreciate the effort that must be involved to provide legal research services for free and in a digestible format. I think this serves many great purposes such as access to information and benefits to under-resourced institutions and disadvantaged persons. Thank you!"
  • “I run a Economic Development division in a small town (1,000) people. I'm a solo operation. Trying to figure out what rules apply to what programs and grant applications would be impossible w/o Cornell."
  • "Thank you so much for your continued work on this mission. I work for an under resourced agency and free access to your information truly makes a difference."
  • "I work for Legal Services. Your site is an invaluable resource to help our clients be able to understand their rights. Thank you!"
  • "I use your site regularly in my efforts to advocate for individuals with disabilities. I appreciate it very much."
  • "In my work as a veterans claims representative, I often use your site for legal citations, etc. Concise and convenient."
  • "Keep up the good work, LII! It helps with my pro bono immigration work and my blog."
  • "I am an attorney who represents people on appeal who have been convicted in federal criminal courts on an appointed basis. Allowing me access to current versions of legal materials for free allows me to keep my overhead low, which in turn allows me to continue to represent indigent clients."
  • "As an individual active in promoting public transparency and public participation this has been a valuable resource."
  • "Your site constantly helps me give Veterans the help they need for their claims."
  • "Your previews triggered many news articles for the 17 years I was running a daily newspaper in Costa Rica."
  • "I am a community activist and I need access to the law to support my causes."
  • "The Legal Information Institute is my most trusted and most used source for legal information for my own accounting practice and for my clients businesses."
  • "I use your website to research IRC in my position as an Enrolled Agent. The information your website provides has changed the lives of many of my taxpayers. I appreciate the free access."
  • "As in house counsel for a nonprofit, I appreciate the access very much."
  • "I use your resources in my work to advance worker rights and fair trade policies."
  • "We work in healthcare, we could not make it through a day without you all!"
  • "As a historian, I rely on LII for my own research and lectures, as well as a resource for my students."
  • "You are a great institution, unique resource, and jewel of legal scholarship. The legal community owes you continuing gratitude."
  • "I found your site invaluable when I taught Constitutional law. Now that i am retired, I still find it to be very useful."
  • "I used this website for much of my research when I was taking ABA Paralegal classes."
  • "From a very thankful law student. It is my mission in my legal career to make the laws which bind everyone, accessible to everyone. The LII is a wonderful example of how the legal field should be."
  • “The reason I was using the web site last night was to assist my niece, an 8th grader, with her homework. The homework was essentially to determine whether the narrator of A Telltale Heart would qualify for the insanity defense in any of its iterations for a mock trial this Friday. My niece called me utterly confused and panicked trying to figure out what the heck M'Naughten and Durham were. I sent her the link to your site's Insanity Defense page and by the time I called her back to "explain the law" she had pretty much figured it out herself after reading your site's clear and accessible, but not "dumbed down" information on the law of insanity defense. She is no longer panicked but excited for her mock trial. I was excited that she was excited about the law.”
  • "I teach courses on intellectual property, copyright, and trademark law, and LII is a great resource for me and my students. Thanks for all the work you do--it's important, and really appreciated by many people!"
  • "This is the best site for my law students and the lawyers in our firm for court rules, statutes, and regs even when we have westlaw. keep up the good work!"
  • "I am empowered by your website as I am in a Legal Nurse Consultant program and I use this website to help me better understand terms and definitions. Thank you."
  • "I think this is one of the most valuable resources for my research and teaching. My high school and college age children use it for Model Congress and school papers. I have this link on all my public law syllabuses. Fabulous job!"
  • "I am a flight school administrator and Chief Instructor who uses this site regularly. It is most efficient and remains updated. Thanks for the support."
  • "I did not study law, but I work in a highly-regulated industry and my job has been increasingly affected by changing regulations. I was introduced to LII by one of my colleagues in our legal department and I have found it to be a great resource."
  • "I work on the regulatory oversight side of Human Subjects Research and it is helpful to have easy access to the regulations which I encounter less frequently in my work."
  • "As an artist, Free Speech is of central concern. For many years your website has given me immediate and direct access to the federal law prescribing the nature of Fair Use and Copyright, and their relationship one to another. And that has made me undaunted. Thank you, thank you! "
  • "This is, unquestionably, one of the top two free legal databases for attorneys who practice in the tax controversy area - federal and state; civil and criminal. I would be close to being unable to practice law competently without this database."
  • "I am a partner in BigLaw and we rely on your information for our work."
  • "I use this site nearly every day. Don't know what I'd do without it."
  • "I started using LII several years ago, when I was working on a U.S. judicial development project overseas and did not have access to hard copy or electronic versions of U.S. legal material. LII is current, authoritative, easy to use, and a general godsend."
  • "LII is a regular resource for me in my work as a criminologist."
  • "I own a small 4-unit rental property and today I showed a unit to a couple of disabled veterans. I knew there are laws that cover persons with disabilities, but didn't know the specifics of the laws. After the gentlemen left, I found this website that easily gave me the CFR I was looking for and all the information I need. Thanks for the help!"
  • "I link to your online federal code with great frequency in the course of writing about bankruptcy for consumers and for young lawyers."
  • "This site has helped me with hospice CoPs."
  • “As a newly elected Union Local President, I can always count on the Legal Information Institute to provide the accurate, timely and very accessible information that I often desperately need. Thank you LII for being there!”
  • “I direct the legal program at a small non-profit organization. We provide free legal assistance to people across the country who need help with matters under ERISA, a field of law that is so complex and specialized that most attorneys find it daunting, let alone general members of the public who are not attorneys. I use LII to review statutes and regulations all the time and actually find it easier to use than some paid services. But more than that, I have seen first-hand over and over how inability to pay for an attorney can prevent individuals from ever understanding their rights or obtaining things they are legally entitled to receive. The law shouldn't be so inaccessible that everyday people can't understand their own legal rights or represent themselves, but it is. I really value the way that LII endeavors to make the law more accessible for everyone.”
  • “I love this site because it's the only one, on the first page of Google results, that doesn't include someone's opinion. It is the law as written, officially.”
  • "I rely on original sources rather than someone else's interpretation of them. LII gives me access to much of what I need to know."
  • "I use this site all the time because the format and search capabilities are so much better then the government access sites. Thank you LII!"​
  • "This is an excellent resource, and I use it almost daily. I have free Westlaw and Lexis and would still rather get my statutes here."
  • "I am a lawyer who supports easy to access to the law."
  • "As a retired federal prosecutor who helped put dozens of people in prison and now as a member of the public without a law office, I strongly support free, universal access to the law as the best way to create respect for it. This is the 21st century equivalent of the musty law libraries in thousand of county courthouses across the land."
  • "The laws that bind us all should be readily available to all. I've been reading LII for decades. By reading Supreme Court decisions and briefs, I've learned a lot more about the legal system in America. It's made me a more informed citizen."
  • "We all need to support this essential reference. Its usefulness in fighting online misinformation is priceless."
  • "When citizens have access to clear information, they can make better choices and the nation benefits. Knowledge is empowering. Thanks for what you do."
  • "I was a Public Defender for 18 years and have dedicated my life to access to justice for the indigent and oppressed. This requires access to the law. Knowing what the law says is empowering. Having to take someone's word for it is demeaning and causes deep rooted mistrust. I fully support and have infinite respect for your mission, it is quintessentially just."
  • "Simply stated; you bring the power of the law into the reach of ordinary citizens . I am most appreciative. Keep up the good work!"
  • "LII is an invaluable source of information and deserves every support required to be able to continue to serve forever."
  • "This work is essential to the survival and continued success of a democracy."