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ALLLAW
AllLaw attempt provides resources compiled by legal topic and jurisdiction. In addition to providing brief annotations for topical sources, it enables searching select external resources.
AMERICAN LAW SOURCES ONLINE
The American Law Sources Online Federal Government page provides a search engine for all of the Court of Appeals decisions and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel decisions. Searches can be conducted for one or all of the court databases.
AMERICAN LEGAL PUBLISHING ONLINE LIBRARY
American Legal Publishing provides access to codes of ordinances for various cities and towns. The last ordinance for each municipal code is highlighted. Users can choose between framed and unframed versions, and are also able to browse or search the individual codes
BASIC LEGAL CITATION
The Basic Legal Citation site includes access to executive orders, proclamations and in-state citations for Arizona, Illinois, New Mexico, and Texas.
BERNSTEIN’S DICTIONARY OF BANKRUPTCY TERMINOLOGY
The Bernstein’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology a dictionary that defines the most common terms associated with bankruptcy.
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY
The Center for Public Integrity is a nonprofit organization conducts investigative research and reports on public policy issues in the United States and around the world. It offers a number of useful resources, including a guide to filing Freedom of Information requests, a database of political committees, a database of information about prosecutor misconduct, and a database of outside interests reported by state legislators. There is also news and commentary on a variety of issues.
CONTENT PAGES FROM LAW REVIEWS & SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Content Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals is a keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications. This listing of journals is comprised of titles received by the Tarlton Law Library for the previous three months.
CORNELL LEGAL RESEARCH
The Cornell Legal Research site is created by the law librarians at the Cornell Law Library. It is a compilation of United States and International legal resources in various formats. It is topical and jurisdictional with citations to research tools and direct links.
E-CODES
General Code Publishers offers numerous municipal codes from cities and counties in the United States, most of which are in the northeastern part of the county.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION DATABASE
The National Conference of State Legislatures offers the Environmental Health Legislation Database for finding legislation and current law on environmental health issues from all 50 states. Coverage extends back to 2000 and topics include indoor air quality, pesticides, lead, asbestos and others. Users may search by keyword for information about the state, bill number, sponsor, status, date of last action and description.
EVERYBODY’S LEGAL GLOSSARY
Everybody’s Legal Glossary contains plain English definitions for hundreds of legal terms.
EXPERT’S PAGE
Expert’s Page enables users to locate an expert witness or consultant. This service links attorneys, law firms and legal professionals to thousands of expert witnesses. The experts are searchable by subject area or name.
LAW.COM
Law.com provides links and annotations to sites about U.S. federal courts.
LAWLINK FROM THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION (ABA)
The ABA website provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. It strives to provide users with the knowledge and tools they need to expand their careers. The LawLink feature contains a collection of links to legal research starting points. This feature is very selective, making web-based legal research more manageable.
LAWMOOSE
LawMoose, by Pritchard Law Webs was designed for users seeking Minnesota or Wisconsin legal information It provides built-in search functions that help users find information including judicial bios, statutes, legislation, company information and more. Beginning, as well as advanced, searchers will appreciate the simplicity of finding information at this site. Features include the ability to retrieve information about certain Minnesota companies with a single click, a searchable index of articles from Minnesota legal journals, single click access to law-related Web sites by legal topic, and more.
LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE
The Legal Information Institute has a comprehensive site that combines archives of full text legal material with a well organized directory of links to other legal resources. It is well known for it US Supreme Court Decisions collection. The archives in this collection date back to 1990 and may be searched by party name or topic. The Legal Information Institute also features the US Code and US Constitution. The full text of the Cornell Review and the Journal of Online Law are found here as well. The organizational structure of the site makes locating online legal information easy. The menu allows researchers to choose law about a topic, law produced by a particular jurisdiction or source, or laws of a certain type. The site also includes a topical arrangement of state statutes.
LEXISNEXIS
LexisNexis provides authoritative legal news, public records, and business information. This information consists of tax and regulatory publications in various formats. This service provides access to more than three billion documents from a variety of sources. It delivers high quality resources for the entire legal profession.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE
The Library of Congress Guide is an online guide to law from around the world. It is annotated and explains the legal resources available on the Internet with hypertext links to those resources. The very selective guides are divided into types of materials and their legal subject areas.
MARTINDALE LAWYER LOCATOR
The Martindale Lawyer Locator can be used to find a lawyer by name, location/area, practice, firm, corporations, agencies of the U.S. government, or law school faculty.
MAYORAL ELECTION RESULTS DATABASE
The Mayoral Election Results Database allows users to search or browse all 1999 and 2000 mayoral election results across the country.
META-INDEX FOR LEGAL RESEARCH
This meta-index gathers search utilities from various websites. This enables users to process full text searches in a combination of online legal resources on those sites. Case law, legislation, regulations, or other types of resources can also be searched. The site also allows users to search U.S. Supreme Court decisions at FindLaw, the Code of Federal Regulations at GPO Access, or the Congressional Record.
MUNICIPAL CODE CORPORATION
Municipal Code Corporation publishes codified ordinances for many local governments. Its web site offers free access to Folio Infobases for more than 100 municipalities in the United States.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES
The National Association of Counties (NACO) is a national organization that represents county governments in the United States, as well as offers resources for NACO members and the public on its Web site. Users can find topical legislative bulletins and fact sheets, articles, testimony, research reports and more. Special features include the NACO Code of Ethics for County Officials, a subject index to sample county codes and ordinances and county profiles that include the names and email addresses of elected officials.
RegScan Law
RegScan supplies the most current Internet updating service available, covering federal, state, and international regulations. Their data features and exclusive search and retrieval software add value to this service.
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
The Richmond Journal of Law and Technology was the first law review to ever be published exclusively online. The Journal focuses on the impact that computer-related and other emerging technologies have on the law. The Journal is published entirely by students of the University of Richmond School of Law.
Spam Laws
David E. Sorkin, a professor from John Marshall Law School, created the Spam Laws site to offer easy access to U.S. federal and state, and European Union and other country, laws regarding mass email. The site covers both enacted laws and proposed legislation.
State & Local Governments
The State and Local Governments site has links to information about state and local governments in general, as well as individual states.
State Legislative Presence
MultiState Associates Incorporated provides this chart of government-sponsored websites offering legislative information. Users can find a link to the state legislative site as well as information about the availability of full text bills, status information, and site functionality.
Stateline
Stateline is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. It provides news and commentary about a variety of state issues, such as crime, business, education, environment, health care, social policy, taxes, technology, transportation and security. The "issues" section is comprised of brief summaries of current news items with links to their original sources. Users may browse this section by topic or state. The "commentary" section contains longer articles written by professional news reporters. At this site, users will also find all of the nation’s governors’ state of the state addresses from 2000 to present.
The Texas Bar
The Texas Bar site, powered by Casemaker, provides statutes, session laws, Texas rules, the Texas constitution, 75 years of Texas cases, and Fifth Circuit cases to 1995. The site is fully searchable by keyword or citations. "Case check" lists all Texas cases citing the user’s specific case. The browse feature shows titles of various codes available in Casemaker libraries. The thesaurus allows users to search synonyms of originally used search terms. Advanced search options include case sorting, which sorts results according to relevancy ranking or date in ascending or descending order; and case alerts, which mean that whenever a case is related to or matches pre-selected preferences, it appears on the page.
Texas Legal Services Center
The Texas Legal Services Center site contains links to legal forms, Texas research for Legislature, Statutes, Administrative Code, all government departments, and courts for all jurisdictions in the state.
Texas State Government
The Texas State Government site is intended to serve as the official compilation of Texas government electronic resources, both at the state and local levels, and as an index of Texas governmental or taxing authority web sites and services. The site is organized by subject to provide a collection of links and portals to allow citizens, visitors, businesses, state government, and others to quickly and efficiently locate appropriate resources.
Congress.gov Website
The Congress.gov website offers the following databases: House Floor this Week, House Floor Now, Quick Search of Text Bills, Bill Summary and Status, Public Laws by Number, Votes, The Congressional Record, and Committee Information. The bill text files are updated several times a day. The Congressional Record files are received once a day, when Congress is in session, usually in the morning. Committee reports arrive intermittently, after they are published by GPO, and are indexed when they arrive.
University Law Review Project
The University Law Review Project site allows users to conduct full text searches of online law journals. Journals are categorized by topic.
Westlaw
Westlaw is West’s online legal research service. It provides quick, easy access to West’s collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.
World Wide Web Virtual Library
The World Wide Web Virtual Library offers links to online legal resources through a series of categories. The categories are split into the major divisions of "Legal Information by Information Type" and "Search Tools." The site also offers links to legal resources in certain subject areas.
FEDERAL CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals site provides access to court opinions, rules and forms, calendars and dispositions, and court information.
FEDERAL COURT LOCATOR
The Federal Court Locator tool is maintained by Villanova assists researchers looking for the opinions of the various state courts.
FEDERAL JUDICIARY
The Federal Judiciary provides links to all circuit courts and other federal courts. It serves as a source of information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. It is published by the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is updated daily by 6 a.m. and is published Monday through Friday, with the exception of Federal holidays. GPO Access contains Federal Register volumes from 1994 to the present. Documents are available in Summary, PDF, ASCII text, or HTML format. HTML documents are available from 2000 forward and provide hypertext links to Web sites mentioned in the document.
FINDLAW
The FindLaw site has access to thousands of legal sites, cases, forms, law reviews, law schools, bars and associations, etc. for the general public, students, legal professionals, businesses, and corporate counsels. It is also the highest trafficked legal website. The site was started in 1996 by attorneys Timothy Stanley and Stacy Sten for a North California Law Librarians workshop. It provides full-text library of case law, and a variety of communication forums.
FIRSTGOV
FirstGov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Users may search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of which are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet.
FULL-TEXT STATE STATUTES & LEGISLATION
This guide points researchers to sources of full-text state laws and legislation on the Internet. It covers statutes, constitutions, session laws, legislation, and administrative regulations. It happens to include access to many non-authoritative sources.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER - LEGAL EXPLORER
The Legal Explorer offers a map of the states covered by each circuit. Each of which is hypertext linked to each circuit court opinion site.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS LIBRARY
The Government Publications Library consists of over five million items including over 10,000 current serials. It collects publications from the United States government, state governments, foreign governments, and international governmental organizations.
GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY - META-INDEX FOR U.S. LEGAL RESEARCH
This site contains searchable legal indexes. It also offers links to judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and other resources.
HEALTH PROMOTION STATE LEGISLATION & STATUTES DATABASE
The National Conference of State Legislatures provides this database for finding legislation and current law on health issues from all 50 states. The database covers newly introduced legislation and enacted laws during 2003. Topics include chronic disease, cigarette excise tax, food tax, nutrition, obesity, physical education, tobacco and more. Users can search by keyword or other criteria. The information provided includes the state, bill number, sponsor, status and description.
HIEROS GAMOS
Hieros Gamos contains information about thousands of legal organizations divided into several directories: bar associations, associated services, dispute resolution, legal associations, vendors, legal education, government sites, online services, publishers, law firms, and law sites. The information in Hieros Gamos can be accessed by both search utilities and menus.
INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP
The Internet Legal Research Group allows free access to more than 1750 legal forms that correspond with laws specific to each state. The site grants the user the ability to link to the 250 largest law firms in the United States. It is indexed according to topic: Legal Profession, Academia, Legal Research, and Attorney Referral Network.
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