LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER

The Milwaukee Legal Resource Center (MLRC) is a public law library operated by the Wisconsin State Law Library under a contract with Milwaukee County. 

The mission of the Milwaukee Legal Resource Center is to serve the legal information needs of Milwaukee County government, judges, attorneys, and the public by providing the highest quality of professional expertise in the selection, maintenance, and use of materials, information and technology in order to facilitate equal access to the law.

The library's collection contains Wisconsin primary legal materials, as well as State Bar of Wisconsin CLE practice books and other secondary legal materials.  The library also has federal materials, such as U.S. Supreme Court Reporter, Code of Federal Regulations, and the United States Code Service, a core collection of treatises, Milwaukee County and Milwaukee City ordinances, general reference books, and some titles aimed at the non-lawyer.  The library offers several public computers with free access to the Internet, Westlaw, Shepard's Public Access, the Wisconsin State Law Library catalog (including MLRC titles), and the LOIS Wisconsin Series CD-ROM.  Family law forms for Milwaukee County self-represented (pro se) litigants are available at the MLRC for a fee.  Staff members of the MLRC are not attorneys and cannot assist with filling out pro se legal forms.  Please visit the Free Family Legal Clinic for assistance.  Currently only FAMILY law forms are available for purchase.  We do not have fill-in-the-blank forms on other topics.

Borrowing privileges are available to court staff, licensed attorneys, federal, state, county, and city government agency employees.  Library cards obtained at the MLRC can also be used at the Wisconsin State Law Library.  Books from the Wisconsin State Law Library may be shipped to the MLRC free of charge.

Photocopies and computer printouts are available at a cost of .10 per page. 

The current Reference/Outreach Services Librarian is Rebecca Knutson, 901 N. 9^th Street, Courthouse, Room 307A, Milwaukee, WI 53233-1458.  Her office phone number is 414-278-4900.  The fax number is 414-223-1818, and the e-mail address is Rebecca.Knutson@wicourts.gov.