West Publishing Corp.'s WESTLAW and Reed-Elsevier's LEXIS service, the two titans of online legal services, have dominated legal research for as long as electronic research has existed. However, the Internet may soon be as important an online resource for the legal research as LEXIS and WESTLAW are. A comparison is made of these 3 services. Some of the areas of comparison are: 1. the US code, 2. code of federal regulations, 3. Supreme Court decisions, 4. directories of lawyers and law firms, 5. state law, and 6. congressional information. It is concluded that it is unfair to compare no-fee Internet databases with analogous commercial services. Commercial vendors can afford to pay professional editors, proofreaders, programmers, and word processors to create and maintain first rate databases containing gigabytes of information. Unlike either WESTLAW or LEXIS, the Internet was not designed specifically to be a means of data retrieval, though it is turning out to be quite capable of the task.