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Reference Assistance

Reference Librarians are available Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, to answer questions via email at: lawref@law.sc.edu or via the Law Library Text Chat service.
Virtual reference services are also available. For more information on Text or Video Chat options, please visit the Reference Help page.

Reference librarians cannot give legal advice, but can help you find material to research your legal issues.

South Carolina Legal Services may be able to assist you with non-criminal cases.
- An online application is available on the South Carolina Legal Services website.
- You may also call the telephone intake line at: 1-(888) 346-5592

The South Carolina Judicial Branch website includes a Court Forms page as well as other resources.
- The Law Library has a South Carolina Forms Index guide to help with locating these forms.

Self-help resources and information on legal services can be found at LawHelp.org/SC and in the Law Library's Circuit Riders: Basic Legal Research guide.

Online research guides prepared by UofSC law librarians:

Law Library Topical Research Guides
This page provides an overview of Law Library research guides.
Circuit Riders: Basic Legal Research
Law Library research guide on legal research and access to legal information.

The Circuit Riders guide includes a Topical Legal Research Guides page, including subjects such as Criminal Law and Family Law.

This guide also includes self-help resources and information on legal services that may be available to assist you.

South Carolina Legal Resources
Law Library research guide on locating and utilizing SC legal resources, including superseded SC Code volumes (1952 Code and before).
Free Internet Legal Resources
This guide directs legal researchers to websites for locating legal information on the free Web. It includes finding tools and legal search engines as well as primary sources from our three branches of government, state and federal.

Websites that may be useful for locating legal information:

South Carolina Judicial Branch
- Opinions from the South Carolina Appeals and Supreme Courts, court rules, and forms
South Carolina Legislature
- South Carolina Constitution, Code, regulations, and other legal information
SC State Agency Websites
- Listing of SC State Agency websites, alphabetically or by category

govinfo (formerly FDSys)
- United States Constitution, Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and other government documents
U.S. House: Office of the Law Revision Counsel
- United States Code, including a Popular Name Table and a citation or keyword search.
Supreme Court of the United States
- Case information, oral argument transcripts and audio, briefs, court opinions (including bound volumes of U.S. Reports), and Supreme Court Rules