About Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd.
We started Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd. with one goal in mind: give lawyers and law students the legal reference books they actually need, without all the bulk.
Big legal publishers often put out thick, expensive volumes that try to cover everything at once. We took a different approach. Our books are built for real-world use. They’re compact enough to fit in a briefcase, priced fairly, and updated every year so you’re always working with the current rules.
Our catalog covers the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, and much more. We also publish state-specific practice guides for Michigan, California, Texas, Florida, and Illinois, plus a growing collection of historical Supreme Court decisions and foundational legal texts. Whether you’re in court, in class, or at your desk, there’s a Michigan Legal Publishing title made for the way you work.
Trusted by Legal Professionals
Attorneys trust us. Law students rely on us. Our Federal Rules of Evidence and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure editions are both Best Sellers on Amazon in the Court Rules Books category, and they earn that ranking year after year because they’re genuinely useful, not just affordable.
Our books are available directly through our website, on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and through major distributors including Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Academic institutions, libraries, nonprofits, and bookstores can contact us for bulk and wholesale pricing. We can also ship directly to correctional facilities for incarcerated readers who need access to legal materials.
We’re a small, independent publisher based in Michigan. That means every title we publish gets personal attention. We’re not a big corporate house turning out thousands of titles a year. We focus on doing a few things really well, and we update our books on a consistent schedule so you can count on them.
If there’s a title you’d like to see us publish, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out through our contact page and we’ll get back to you promptly.
Other Projects
Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd. is also working on a few projects to make the law more accessible.
LexFed
LexFed is Michigan Legal Publishing’s experimental platform for federal law. It brings the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Constitution into a single searchable, cross-referenced reference — designed to be useful to anyone, not just attorneys.
What it does
- The full federal corpus, in one place. Every USC section, every CFR part, every constitutional clause, navigable by hierarchy or full-text search. Each title and section has a stable, linkable URL.
- Plain-language explanations. Every USC and CFR section can be read at three levels — the legal text as written, plain English (8th-grade reading level), or an “explain it without any legal background” version. Generated on demand and cached.
- Statute-to-regulation cross-references. Read a USC section and see which CFR parts implement it. Read a CFR section and see the statute it derives its authority from. The link runs both ways.
- Daily change tracking. Every CFR amendment, addition, and removal is logged with its Federal Register citation. The activity dashboard charts daily and yearly trends, surfaces the most-amended sections, and flags days with anomalous regulatory activity.
- Federal Register linkouts. Each amendment links back to the rulemaking notice that drove it, so you can read the actual published rule — not just the resulting text.
- Constitution annotations. For each clause: a drafting story grounded in convention debates and the Federalist Papers, a timeline distinguishing textual amendments from judicial reinterpretations, comparisons with how other constitutional democracies handle the same problem, and primary sources.
Why it exists
The official sources for federal law — uscode.house.gov, ecfr.gov, congress.gov — are accurate and authoritative, but they were built for legal professionals. They assume the reader can navigate by citation, parse dense statutory language, and trace implementing regulations across multiple titles. LexFed is built for everyone else: the researcher checking an authority citation, the small-business owner trying to understand a regulation that affects them, the journalist tracing an amendment back to its rulemaking, the student learning how the Constitution actually works in practice.
It is also a bet: that AI-assisted summarization, applied to public-domain federal law with the original text always one click away, makes the law genuinely more accessible without sacrificing accuracy.
Visit www.lexfed.com. LexFed is free to use, ad-free, and built on public-domain federal data sourced from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel and the eCFR. It is published by Michigan Legal Publishing Ltd.