Locked Out of the Law Library

When you graduate from law school, your access to legal research tools like LexisNexis vanishes overnight. For citizens trying to understand their rights — whether it's a tenancy dispute or a contract issue — the legal system's knowledge is locked behind paywalls designed for billing clients at $400 an hour. And even if you could afford those databases, most lower court rulings never get published at all. In this episode, we explore the gap between "the law is public" and "actually finding the law is private," and uncover the free tools and strategies that can help non-lawyers navigate the system.