Alabama Law Weekly

Alabama Law Weekly is where Alabama attorneys turn to for fast and accurate information on Alabama court opinions affecting their cases. It's the one research tool that lets you constantly work faster, more efficiently, and with better information.

Get all your case updates from one convenient place

Each week, Alabama Law Weekly delivers to you fast-read, definitive summaries of every Supreme Court and appellate court opinion, giving you fast, easy access to all decisions affecting your practice. Our expert legal staff distills the information for you, so you save time and avoid the risk of error or oversight.

Save time by using fast-scan summary sentences
Alabama Law Weekly lets you instantly zero in on decisions pertinent to your cases. That's because ALW gives you not only summaries of all opinions, but also concise one-sentence "summaries within the summary" for the most significant cases in each issue. If this one-sentence summary does not affect your current caseload, you can quickly move on. With ALW you work faster, more confidently, and more efficiently.

Stay confidently up to date
Best of all, this vital information arrives at your office every single week, so you stay on top of every development and decision that affects your pending legal issues. Each week, our expert staff gives you summaries of the most recent decisions rendered by the:

Alabama Supreme Court
Court of Civil Appeals
Court of Criminal Appeals

Plus, receive bonus summaries
When the state legislature is in session, you receive summaries of all new legislative acts that might affect your practice. You also get summaries of selected opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - both published and unpublished - and state and federal trial courts.

Get your information even faster with e-mail or fax service
As a subscriber, you're eligible to receive ALW each week by e-mail or fax, at no additional cost.

Get full text through our case copy service
We'll mail or fax you a copy of the complete opinion or legislative act you request for just 75 cents a page -- as quickly as you need it. You may e-mail your order to us at copies@mleesmith.com.

Reference and cross-reference in the cumulative quarterly index
You'll receive the only index that categorizes cases by subject matter, gives subsequent case history, and lists So2d cites.

Online Service at alalaws.com
Are you spending countless hours researching Alabama case law? Want to leave that frustrating, time-consuming work behind? Subscribe to ALW and receive access to alalaws.com. You'll tap into the fast, authoritative information you need -- right on your computer! You get full opinions of recent cases, as well as cases dating back to 1997.

What do your peers think of Alabama Law Weekly?
"Alabama Law Weekly provides a rapid alert as to whether cases affecting clients' files have been decided... There is certainly no faster, more efficient way to keep up with recent decisions."
- Tennent Lee
Burr & Forman
Huntsville, AL
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Order Alabama Law Weekly today to stay current on all new Alabama law developments. You'll receive

• one copy of the newsletter by mail every week;
• electronic copies of the newsletter for every attorney by e-mail every Friday;
• a cumulative quarterly index
• access to alalaws.com (ALW Online); and
• case copy service.

The subscription price is based on the size of your practice:

Law firms:

400 per firm
Plus $21 times the total number of attorneys in the firm

Example: If your firm has 10 attorneys, the price would be $400 plus $21 times 10 ($210) for a total of $610 per year.

Sole practitioners: $347 per year.