Kubik Legal encourages their Clients to become more involved with resolving their own legal issues. We’ve listed some online resources to help you with this. Check back often as this list will only grow!
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Online Legal Cases Look-Up
- MyCase allows you to look up non-confidential Indiana legal cases. https://public.courts.in.gov/mycase/#/vw/Search
- Cook County, Illinois has their own legal case look-up site: https://casesearch.cookcountyclerkofcourt.org/
- Will County, Illinois has their own legal case look-up site: https://iattorney.il12th.org/
Websites that give generic information about legal issues. (Note, these sites should not be claiming to provide you with legal advice. Only licensed attorneys are allowed to do that.)
- Illinois Legal Aid Online: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/
- AI platforms like ChatGPT (https://chatgpt.com/), Claude (https://claude.ai) and others can be used if you have questions. If you have not actually tried using AI in this way, we encourage you to do so. Be warned that these sites may produce results that are not correct (often called “hallucinations”). But we encourage you to dive into the use of AI, and when we meet, our legal experts will correct and clarify what you have learned from this ever growing technology.
If you’d like to see other resources on this page, email Sara Kubik at sara@kubiklegal.com and let her know your thoughts!