Courthouses in the United States

Legal Materials

You can find most of the information you need about court clerks and court houses from the respective court’s web site. You can use FindLaw to link to most Federal and state courts, or you can just search Google or another search engine.

If you need information on many courts, or if the information you need isn’t available on the court web site, you may want to use a directory, such as BNA’S Directory of State and Federal Courts, Judges, and Clerks, Your Nation’s Courts Online (CQ Press), theJudicial Staff Directory (CQ Press), and/or the The Judicial Yellow Book (Leadership Directories).

New York Court Clerks and Court Houses are listed in the Second Circuit Redbook.

Court Admission

Certain courts, notably U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, require attorneys to be specifically admitted to practice before them. To find out if a particular attorney has been admitted, call the court clerk (for directories listing court clerks, see “Court Clerks / Court Houses”).

To find out how to get admitted to practice before a court, call the court clerk and/or see if the information might be on the court’s Web site. (To get an application to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, call the Court at 212-872-8603).

Resources

See Also

• Bar Admission
• United States Supreme Court
• Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
• Case Pulls
• Federal Court Rules
• Judges
• State Court Rules
• State Law

Further Reading

• Information about Courthouses in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.