The Lincoln Legal Papers is now Series I of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln.

 

    From 1836 to 1861, Abraham Lincoln practiced law in the courts of central Illinois.   This series is an ongoing effort to collect and publish the surviving documentary record of Abraham Lincoln's quarter-century legal career in the federal, state, and county court systems.

 

    The comprehensive electronic component of this series, The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition (University of Illinois Press, 2000), provides access to images of more than 96,000 documents from Abraham Lincoln's legal career.

 

    The selective print edition of this series, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln: Legal Documents and Cases, 4 vols. (University of Virginia Press, 2008) provides carefully transcribed and annotated documents from forty-nine of Lincoln's most interesting, important, or representative cases.