Experienced trial lawyer for Northern Virginia, Washington, DC and Maryland

*Sites with an asterisk next to them are considered especially helpful by the author

• ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION
• http://www.accidentreconstruction.com
  Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin - Critical forum for ideas and techniques used in traffic accident reconstruction. A directory of experts.
• ADOPTION
• Adoption Network
• ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Online ADR
  Cybersettle.com - The two sides are given three opportunities - or rounds - to settle.
  iCourthouse - iCourthouse is a sort of virtual judge and jury providing jury trials via the web.
• General ADR Sites
  ADR Resources
  ADRWorld.com - Reports breaking news in the field of alternative dispute resolution.
• Private ADR Providers
  American Arbitration Association
  JAMS - A brochure for this private ADR company.
  The Janzen Group - Provides a range of ADR services.
• ADVERTISING
• www.adflip.com - Locate print advertisements back to the 1950s.
  http://www.adlaw.com/home.cfm
• AIRPLANES/AVIATION
• Aviation Safety Data
  AirSafe.com - Use it to search for airplane fatalities by airline, location or type of aircraft, or simply go to a list of all airline fatalities since 1970.
  http://www.landings.com - Verify pilot certifications and aircraft ownership
• ALERTS - means of tracking site changes automatically
• http://www.aignes.com
  http://www.watchthatpage.com - You can track changes on any website with this site and also use it to let your visitors know they can get notified when pages on your site change.
  http://www.infominder.com
  http://www.google.com/alerts
• ANONYMIZERS
• Anonymizer - Anonymously access any Web site.
  http://www.anon-remailer.gq.nu - This is an e-mail re-mailer that will allow you to maintain anonymity.
  The Cloak - Offers free and pay services.
• ARTICLES AND JOURNALS
• Look Smart - Key work searchable archive of millions of articles.
  http://freemedicaljournals.com
  http://info.lib.uh.edu/wj/webjour.html - Medical and scientific articles http://www.ingentaconnect.com - Allows search and view of abstracts of over 19 million articles.
  Keep Media - Back issues of periodicals.
  http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/ft/hslejournal.asp - University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library metasite.
  Medscape - Abstracts and citations from selected medical journals.
  Million Magazines - Back issues of selected periodicals.
  www.nejm.org - New England Journal of Medicine.
  Public Library of Science - Medicine - Articles on conditions and diseases
  American Medical Association Journals - Articles from AMA medical journals.
  Trussel.com - Back issues of magazines and newspapers.
• AUCTIONS
• Amazon auctions - The online book/CD store is looking to compete directly with eBay.
  American Flower Auction - As the name implies, a plant auction
  Bid.com
  boxLot - Another newcomer in the one-on-one auction game, but with a good selection of categories.
  BidXS Meta-Auctions - A site that searches over 500 auctions sites for the item you want.
  http://www.drms.dla.mil - The Defense Department’s surplus site
  eBay - Over 1,000 auction categories and roughly a million auctions a day.
  http://www.farms.com - For livestock.
  Hemmings Motor News
  The Internet Auction List - A Web portal site to the entire online auction community.
  Lycos auctions - A search engine that culls auctions from other auction sites into one central area.
  OnSale - Large auction vendor selling their own stock of warehoused products.
  Ruby Lane - A search engine that checks all major auction and shopping sites for antiques.
  Software and Stuff
  SecureTrades.com - An escrow service for auction users.
  Wholesale Ramp
  http://www.whowouldbuythat.com - Funny items people post (and buy).
  Yahoo auctions - Yahoo’s search engine brand of one-on-one bidding.
• AUTOMOBILES
• Auto World - Car values, recall information, etc.
  Automobile Recall Database - From the Office of Defects Investigation at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this database allows searches of automobile recalls by year, make or model.
  CarFax - Used car vehicle history.
  Car Talk - As heard on NPR
  Crashtest.com - Draws together vehicle crash test data from several sources.
  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) - Crash test results.
  Edmunds.com - Car values.
  Fatality Analysis Reporting System - From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, FARS provides data on all motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. that occur on public roads and result in fatality.
  Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/Highway Loss Data Institute
  Kelly Blue Book - Used car values.
  Society of Automotive Engineers - Home to complete libraries of standards and specifications.
  Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin - Critical forum for ideas and techniques used in traffic accident reconstruction. A directory of experts lists names, specialties and e-mail addresses of accident reconstruction experts worldwide.
  VehicleIdentificationNumber.com - Information regarding Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs)
• AUDIO
• Alltheweb - Audio clips and sound.
  AltaVista - Various sounds on the Internet.
  FindSounds.com - It is an internet search engine for locating sounds.
  iPodder.org - Locate podcasts.
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• BANKRUPTCY LAW
• Bankruptcy Forms
  Bankruptcy Code
  Bankruptcy Institute
  Bankruptcy Basics
  Bankruptcy Bulletin
  Bankruptcy Alternatives
  Bankruptcy: An Overview
• Tools for Bankruptcy Lawyers
  Bankruptcy Data - It provides data on all publicly traded companies with total assets of at least $10 million to have filed for bankruptcy, have defaulted on publicly held debt, or have proposed a distressed exchange offer since 1986.
  BankruptcySales.com - Listings of assets being offered for sale from bankruptcy estates.
  411Bankruptcy - directory of bankruptcy attorneys.
  Huntington Legal Advertising - Legal-notice advertising for bankruptcies.
  Hieros Gamos - Helpful links.
  Internet Bankruptcy Library - One-stop shopping site for the bankruptcy professional.
  National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees
  U. S. Trustee Program, Department of Justice
• BLOGS
• Finding Law Related Blogs
  Blawg.org
  The Blogs of Law
  Daily Whirl
• Searching Blogs
  http://www.Blogdigger.com
  http://www.Blogpulse.com
  http://www.blogstreet.com
  http://blogsearch.google.com/
  http://www.daypop.com
  http://www.Feedster.com
  http://news.search.yahoo.com
  http://www.Technorati.com
• BOATS
• http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/vdoc/nvdc.htm
• BOOKS
• Legal
  Bibliofind - Used and rare books.
  Law Book Network Home Page - Buy and sell law books
  LexisNexis
  West Group
• Non-Legal
  www.abebooks.com - Hard to find books
  www.alibris.com - Hard to find books
  www.amazon.com
  www.barnesnoble.com
  Powell’s Books - Technical, hard-to-find, and rare books.
• Hard to find books
  http://www.abebooks.com
• BROWSERS
• http://microsoft.com/windows/ie/defalt.mspx - To install Internet Explorer.
  http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ - To install Netscape.
  http://www.mozilla.com.firefox - To install Firefox.
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• CALCULATORS AND CONVERTERS
• Martindale’s Calculators Online Center - Calculations and conversions of various types
• CARTOONS
• http://www.cartoons4fun.com/c4f.shtml
• CLASS ACTIONS
• Central Notice
• COMPANY INFORMATION
• http://www.annualreportservice.com
  http://www.associationcentral.com/
  http://www.bizjournals.com
  http://www.Business.com
  http://www.corporateinformation.com
  CorpTech.com - To obtain information about private and public companies.
  Delaware Division of Corporations - Offers free searching.
  Dun & Bradstreet Companies Online - Information about companies
• Edgar:
  Government site - publicly traded companies
  www.freeedgar.com - Provides free access to various SEC filings
  EdgarScan - Search for company information.
  Private site - similar info as the government site
  LiveEDGAR - fee based Edgar provider.
  EDGARpro - fee based Edgar provider.
• Global Reports - Annual reports
  http://www.Hoovers.com - Company capsules.
  Hoover’s Boneyard - Contains information about companies no longer active.
  http://www.industrylink.com
  inc.com
  Investext - Very expensive product.
  IRIN (Investor Relations Information Network) - Recent annual reports
  Lexis Company Profiles and Directory - For one stop shopping, you cannot beat the Lexis Combined Company.
  http://www.nexis.com
  http://www.quicken.com
  Resident Agent Info - Allows you to link to Secretary of State sites and access their records.
  http://www.reportgallery.com
  SEC Info - Free full text searching of company filings.
  SIC Codes - The government Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System identifies all corporations by number in different categories
  http://www.10Kwizard.com/ - Free full text searching of filings with SEC.
  Thomas Register - Info about product and service suppliers.
  U. S. Department of Commerce - A variety of business related information
  www.vault.com - Insider’s view of a company
  http://www.virtualpet.com/industry
  Yahoo! Company Profiles - Yahoo!Finance provides a wealth of information about publically traded companies. Extremely useful resource is the Yahoo message boards, where potential investors discuss the company.
  http://www.zacks.com
  Zapdata (owned by D&B) - Company contrast information.
• Other ways to find information on companies
  (a) type in name of company.doc or name of company.ppt.
  (b) to look at the company’s robot.doc files key in “ http://www.metlife.doc” for companies such as Metlife.
  (c) search “all who is” to find other domain names of companies.
• COMPUTER INFORMATION
• http://www.whatis.com - offers explanations about the internet & computer
• CONSTRUCTION LAW
• Construction WebLinks - definitive construction industry portal to the Web.
• CONSUMER LAW PAGE
• http://consumerlawpage.com - The Consumer Law Page offers an encyclopedic collection of articles.
  http://www.dowjonesinteractive.com
• CONTEST SITES
• About Contests
  Contest Hound
  Contests and Sweepstakes Directory
  Winning Ways Online Sweeps
• CONTRACTS
• Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative - A digital collection of contracts
• CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES
• http://www.xe.net/ucc
  XE Interactive Currency Table www.xe.com/ict - To obtain historical currency exchange rates.
• CORPORATE LAW
• Statutes, Rules and Forms
  Delaware Division of Corporations - this site is where to find everything needed to incorporate in Delaware.
  State Corporation and Business Forms
  State Corporation Statutes
• Courts and Cases
  Delaware Corporate Law Clearinghouse - This Web site provides access to filings and opinions from the nations’s premier trial court for corporation law, the Delaware Court of Chancery
  Delaware Court of Chancery
• Practice
  Corporate Counsel - The Web site of Corporate Counsel magazine
  FindLaw Corporate Counsel Center
  RealCorporateLawyer - This site is designed for securities lawyers.
• CRIMINAL LAW & JUSTICE
• Bureau of Justice Statistics, U. S. Department of Justice
  Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts - The U. S. Department of Justice has aggregated crime and justice data from a variety of published sources and made it available on the Web.
  CrimeLynx - Designed for criminal defense lawyers, this site features four major compilations of links, covering legal research, forensics and expert witnesses, investigations, and criminal policy.
  Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
  Criminal Defense Online - Although its focus is Michigan, this is a useful and comprehensive site for criminal lawyers everywhere.
  Criminal Justice Resources on the Web
  Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center - Comprehensive information about suspects and defendants processed in each stage of the federal criminal justice system.
  FSU College of Criminology
  Justice Information Center - One of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world.
  National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
  Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - Online version of the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
  http://www.tncrimlaw.com - Useful criminal law links.
  U. S. Sentencing Commission
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• DEATH PENALTY
• Capital Defense Network
  Capital Defense Weekly
• DEPOSITIONS
• TRIALSmith.com - The largest deposition bank on the Internet. TRIALSmith hosts more than 400 discussion lists with more than 60,000 lawyers participating.
  Defense Research Institute (DRI) - Expert’s deposition testimony from a defense lawyer site.
• DOMAIN NAME CURRENCY
• http://watson.addy.com - To check currency of names.
• DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION
• http://www.newregistrars.com
  http://www.internic.net/whois.html
  http://www.networksolutions.com
  http://www.register.com
  http://www.verio.com
• DOMESTIC RELATIONS - FAMILY LAW
• Cornell’s Family Law Overview
  DivorceNet - Its popularity came in large part from its early incorporation of an “interactive bulletin board.” Beyond the bulletin boards, DivorceNet includes a separate page for each U. S. state.
  Divorcesource.com - Sufficiently full of information to keep consumers browsing for some time.
  Unmarried Couples and the Law
• Child Custody
  Children’s Rights Council
  The Psychologists’ Custody Strategies
• Child Support
  Federal Office of Child Support
  Support Guidelines.com
• Violence, Abuse and Neglect
  American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
  American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence
  Women’s Law Initiative
• Parents’ Rights
  DadsDivorce.com
  The Men’s Issues Page
• Professional Associations
  American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers - Library of full-text manuals and pamphlets designed to help understand the divorce process and its impact on children.
• For Your Clients
  Divorce Online - Resource for people involved in, or facing the prospect of, divorce.
  Divorce Helpline
• Support Services
  Education Experts and Child Custody - If you have a case of child custody in which the quality of different schools is an issue, this may be the site for you.
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• EMPLOYMENT LAW
• United States Department of Labor
  Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Employee Benefits Security Administration
  Employment Standards Administration
  Occupational Safety and Health Administration
  The U. S. Department of Labor
• ENCYCLOPEDIAS, ALMANACS AND REFERENCE
• Acronym Finder
  http://www.answers.com
  www.asknow.org - Public library patrons can chat.
  http://www.bartleby.com - Access to Roget’s Thesaurus, Bartlett’s Quotations, Gray’s Anatomy and others. Provides free access to comprehensive selection of reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction works.
  CIA World Factbook - Find out just about anything about just about anyplace.
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Freedom of Information Center
  Geneology Links
  http://www.infoplease.com
  The Library Index - Link to your library to access databases or its card catalogue
  Library of Congress - Access to catalogue.
  * Librarian’s Internet Index
  LookWAYup - Definitions and meanings of words in a downloadable edition to your web browser.
  MadSci Library - Numerous scientific topics - A directory of sites hand selected by librarians.
  Merriam Webster Dictionary
  Martindale’s The Reference Desk - Exhaustive and up-to-date, Martindale’s has thousands of links to everything from online calculators to worldwide postal information.
  One-Look Dictionary
  OneLook Reverse Dictionary - Locate words by their meaning.
  Oxford English Dictionary
  http://politicalgraveyard.com - Almanac on politicians.
  Research-It! - The place to turn with those troubling little questions.
  http://www.refdesk.com - A directory of reference sites.
  http://www.referencedesk.org
  Television News Archive
  U.S. Census Bureau’s State and Metropolitan Area Data Book
  * Virtual Library - The oldest non-law directory of the web.
  Virtual Reference Service - Chat at the New York public library.
  Wonderful World of Wombats - If you are stumped, turn to this discussion list. A versatile reference desk. Before you pose a question to the list, you should check the archives. If the archives do not have the answer, you can post your question to the list.
  http://www.wikipedia.org - Largest encyclopedia on the internet. Info should always be checked with a second source.
• ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
• Focus on the Law
  Envinfo.com - a collection of environmental law information resources
  Environmental Law Net - Two sets of resources: legal information libraries and “community resources.”
  North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation - A highlight of this resource-rich Web site is its detailed, treatise-like outline of North American environmental law, describing the laws of Canada, Mexico and the U. S.
  Pesticide.net
  Roger Beers’ Environmental Litigation Pages - Featuring a collection of his many articles on a wide variety of environmental law topics.
  Schnapf Environmental Law Information Resource Center - Focuses on environmental law in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, but covers federal and other state issues.
• Public Interest Advocacy
  Center for International Environmental Law
  Environmental Defense
  Greenpeace International
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  Sierra Club
  World Wildlife Fund
• News
  Capitol Reports Environmental News
  Environmental News Network
  Planet Ark - World Environment News
• Government
  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  Environmental Protection Agency
  U. S. Department of Agriculture
  U. S. Department of the Interior
  EnviroMapper
  U. S. Department of Energy
  U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  U. S. Geological Survey, Water Resources of the U. S.
  U. S. Department of Justice, Environmental and Natural Resources Division
  U. S. EPA Online Library System
• Law and Treaties
  Globelaw
• Non-Legal Resources
  Scorecard - The Erin Brockovich of the World Wide Web.
• ESTATE PLANNING
• Starting Points
  Estate Planning Law Materials
  Estate Planning Links Web Site
  Legal Research for Estate Planners
• Lawyer Resources
  CCH Federal and State Tax
  RIA - Created from the merger of Research Institute of America and Warren, Gorham & Lamont, maintains a sizable catalog of estate planning products.
  The Tax Prophet
  Trusts and Estates.net - Offers a complete series of “nutshell”guides to estate planning topics, written for non-lawyers.
• Associations
  American Bar Association Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law
  American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
  Crash Course in Wills and Trusts
  National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
  Nolo Press, Wills and Estate Planning
• EXPERT WITNESSES
• Checklist for finding experts:
  1. Search the free directories.
  2. Search the articles and journals for people who have written on your subject matter.
  3. Search the jury verdict reporter databases - see jury verdicts herein.
  4. Check the professional associations that a potential expert might belong to.
  5. Check conference presentations that might be available in different formats.
  6. Check the Usenet community - see listservs herein.
  7. Check briefs and cases wherein experts dealing with that subject matter might be referred to.
  8. Go to the government sites looking for persons identified by various agencies as expert witnesses - see government search engines.
  9. Any search engine - Key in “expert” and area of expertise.
• Free sites to find experts
  http://www.almexperts.com/expertwitness/
  http://groups.google.com
  http://www.expert4law.org - Sponsored by Los Angeles Bar Association.
  http://www.experts.com
  www.expertclick.com
  www.expert4law.org - Sponsored by Los Angeles Bar Association.
  www.expertpages.com
  http://groups.google.com - Go to discussion groups for leads
  www.hg.org/expert-serv.html - Directory of Expert Witnesses & Consultants.
  Illinois Bar Association
  www.jurispro.com
  National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers
  More Law
  http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/expert_witnesses.html
  www.witness.net
  www.refdesk.com - Has an Ask and Expert section.
  www.tncrimlaw.com/forensic
  Zeno’s Forensic Site - Forensic science and forensic medicine experts
• Daubert issues
  Daubert on the Web - Lawyers keep up with it progency.
  The Daubert Tracker - Its central feature is a database of all reported cases under Daubert and its progeny.
• Search by Associations
  The Internet Public Library Associations on the Net - Information about organizations and associations.
  www.guidestar.org/search - Find the association the expert may belong to.
  www.libdex.com - Find your local library’s database of associations.
• Searching by product
  http://www.thomasnet.com
• Search by different formats - See format searching below
• Search by academic sites
  American Universities
• Search by pay referral
  www.forensisgroup.com
  www.medquestltd.com
  www.tasanet.com - A site with more than 10,000 areas
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• FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
• Locate an agency - LSU directory of federal agencies.
  Census Bureau Home Page
  CPSC Home Page - - Home page for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - EEOC
  FCC - Federal Communications Commission
  Fedstats - Statistics from over 70 U.S. Government agencies.
  The Federal Web Locator - Federal Links.
  Fed World - Federal Govt. Information.
  Food and Drug Administration Home Page
  Government Manual - Official handbook of the U. S. Government.
  Government Printing Office - U.S. Government Bookstore.
  General Accounting Office - Audits of government programs.
  GPO Catalog
  IRS - The Digital Daily - IRS News and home page.
  IRS Forms - All current IRS forms.
  Justice Department - Links to briefs, advisory letters and consent decrees.
  Law Library of Congress Home Page
  Library of Congress - Includes Copyright Office, Library Concerts
  National Labor Relations Board
  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Clicking on “Car Safety” will get information on safety issues, testing results, research and the regulations governing motor vehicle safety. Driver performance, crash information and injury prevention are topics found by clicking on “People Safety”.
  Occupational Safety Health Administration - Interpretation letters from 1972; ALJ decisions from 1981 and are found here or by going directly to HYPERLINK http://www.oshrc.gov.www.oshrc.gov.
  Patent and Trademark Office - information and databases.
  Postal Service - Find zip codes at this site.
  Securities and Exchange Commission - Publicly traded company filings but the search engine is weak.
  Transportation Department - Includes FAA, NHTSA & Coast Guard
  White House
• FEDERAL LAW
• Federal Courts
• In General:
• Exemplaris.com - To access and download full transcripts.
  Federal Courts Finder - from Emory University
  Federal Judicial Center - Education, history and research arm of the courts.
  The Federal Judiciary Home Page - News, information and links to Federal Courts
  Findlaw - Federal court decisions
  PACER - Electronic access to court records.
• The United States Supreme Court:
• Oyez Oyez Oyez at Northwestern University - Includes audio of oral arguments
  http://www.supremecourtus.gov
  Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975 - (Volumes 300-422 of U. S. Reports)
  Supreme Court Decisions - since 1893 (Volume 150 of the U. S. Reports)
  The 1,000 cases most cited by the Supreme Court - From USSC
  U. S. Supreme Court Opinions - 1990 and later and historic cases hosted by Cornell Law School
• Federal Statutes
• Congressional Vote Tracking
  * GPO Access - This is a great place for access to the Public Laws, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and the Code of Federal Regulations.
  Official Version of U. S. Code - Offers key word search capability
  Thomas - Legislative information from Library of Congress.
  United States Code - Full text searchable, hosted by Cornell University. The U. S. Code is fairly easy to search at this site.
  http://uscode.house.gov - The U. S. Code searchable by keyword.
  U. S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library
• Rules, Regulations and Administrative Decisions
• Administrative Decisions - This site provides links to U. S. government agency decisions and actions.
  Code of Federal Regulations
  Cornell Law Library - Able to link to CFR from U. S. Code Sections being viewed.
  Uncle Sam Government Publications - To locate U. S. government publications on the Internet.
  Federal Register
  GPO Access - Go to the agency website and find the regulations specific to that agency.
  http://www.regulations.gov - Maintained by GPO. This site simplifies finding regulations.
• FINANCIAL INFORMATION
• Bloomberg - Business and financial information
  Business Wire - Business news and press releases.
  http://www.ceoexpress.com
  CNNfn http://www.cnnfn.com
  InvestorWords.com - Define financial and investment terms.
  Professor Campbell R. Harvey’s Hypertextual Finance Glossary - Define business terms
  http://www.gatewayva.com/rtd/dailynews/business
  http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/govdocs/govhome.html
  The Motley Fool - Investment advice and news
  Nasdaq Stock Market Home Page
  Quote.com - Investing news
  PR Newswire - Business news and press releases.
  Rate.net - interest rates offered by more than 11,000 financial institutions
  http://www.richmond.com
  The street.com - Investing news
  http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
  http://www.thomasnet.com
  USA Today Money Section
  http://www.vatc.org
  http://www.washingtonpost.com
  http://www.va-business.com
  Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
  Yahoo Finance - Links & news articles
• FORMAT SEARCHING
• The steps to follow:
  
  1. Go to the advanced search function of the search engine you are using.
  2. Enter the name or the subject matter and then select Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt) or whatever the appropriate format is.
  3. Click on to view the document as html. This presents the document in plain text and eliminates the need for downloading to your hard drive.
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• GENEALOGY
• RootsWeb - Primarily for genealogy research.
  Godfrey Memorial Library - Godfrey Memorial Library specializes in genealogical materials.
  USGenWeb Project - Genealogical Web site that provides links to all the state Web sites.
  Geneology Links
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• HISTORY
• http://www.biography.com
• Legal History
  Avalon Project
  A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U. S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774 - 1873
  Famous Cases
  History of the Federal Judiciary
• HOW TO
• How to do anything
  Learn to do anything
• HUMOR - LEGAL AND OTHERWISE
• http://www.BrienRocheLaw.com
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• IMAGES - SEE VIDEO
• http://images.google.com
  http://search.yahoo.com/images
  www.alltheweb.com - Audio clips and sounds and images.
  www.altavista.com/image
  www.corbis.com - Professional and news photos.
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• Cyberspace Law - UCLA online institute for cyberlaw
  Cyberspace Law Institute
  High Tech Products
  Internet Legal Resource Guide
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
• Laws, Cases and Treaties
  Intellectual Property Law
  Collection of Laws for Electronic Access
• Practice Resources
  All About Trademarks
  Intellectual Property Law Web Server
  Intellectual Property Mall, Franklin Pierce Law Center
  Intellectual Property Research
  Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
  Links to Patent and Other Intellectual Property Information Resources
• Trademark/Patent/Copyright Searching
  Copyrights
  GetThePatent.com
  MicroPatent - MicroPatent is a company that offers both patent and trademark searching
  Patent Searching
  U. S. Patent and Trademark Office
• INTERNET
• Internet research updates
  The Internet Lawyer - To keep up to date with research resources.
  Legal Information Alert
  Internet Connection - To keep up to date with government resources on the Internet.
  Internet Law Researcher - To keep up to date with research resources on the Internet.
  www.lawpractice.org/factfinder
  LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange) - To keep up to date regarding online research sites and resources.
  Site-tation - Free monthly e-mail newsletter.
  The Virtual Chase (TVC) - Offers articles about the most useful Internet research sites.
• Tools for Lawyers
  Internet Law Library
  The Internet Lawyer
  Internet Legal Compass
  Internet Tools for Lawyers - Offers practical sections on legal research, Web site design, mailing lists and software.
• Privacy Matters
  Anonymizer - To make you anonymous to web sites
  Center for Democracy & Technology - See what web sites can learn about you
  Electronic Frontier Foundation - Dealing with civil rights on the internet
  Pretty Good Privacy - Encryption for your mail
• INTEREST RATES
• Interest Rates
  Mortgage Rates
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• JUDGES
• Federal Directory
  http://www.law.com - Access to articles by and about judges and attorneys.
  State Judges - Check the court website or local bar association.
• Searching cases by judge’s name
  http://www.findlaw.com
  http://www.lexixone.com
  http://loislaw.com
  http://www.lexis.com
  http://versuslaw.com
  http://westlaw.com
• JURY VERDICTS
• http://www.legaline.com/jury.htm - This site has free jury verdicts and settlements research data.
  More Law - Free jury verdicts and settlement database.
  National Association of Jury Verdict Publishers
  Rand Institute for Civil Justice - Study of the civil justice system. It is perhaps best known for its studies of trends in jury verdicts.
  http://www.valawyersweekly.com - For subscribing members, on-line verdicts and settlements results can be obtained of cases reported to Virginia Lawyers Weekly.
  http://www.verdictsearch.com - This fee-based site provides pertinent verdicts and settlements information.
  http://virginiaverdicts.com
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• LANGUAGE /TRANSLATION ORIENTED SITES
• Alta Vista Toolbar - Translate into different languages
  http://www.berlitz.com
  Global Reach
  http://translator.dictionary.com/
  http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran
  Google Translate
  http://www.translation.net/tsfaq.html
  http://www.wetranslate.com
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
• CopNet - International collection of law enforcement links.
  Coplink.com - Comprehensive collection of links to law enforcement agencies and support services.
  Zeno’s Forensic Page - A complete and well-organized list of resources for forensics, including a list of various research organizations and their specialties.
• LAW JOURNALS - These are publications by law schools that address specific legal issues. The articles are generally scholarly.
• AJR Netlink - various news media resources
  Internet Legal Practice Newsletter
  Law Journal Extra! - latest legal/telecom news
  Law Reviews On-line - Full text search of journals
  Tarlton Law Library - Key word searchable database.
  * http://www.washlaw.edu - Search all law journals, courtesy of Washington University Law School.
  Washington & Lee Law School
• LAW PRACTICE
• Law Biz - Information on building and maintaining a profitable practice
• LAW SCHOOLS - These Universities maintain On-Line Legal Research Services. By going to their home page, you may be able to access all different types of legal resource material.
• Cornell University
  Emory University
  Georgetown University
  Jurist-Law Professor’s Network
  Villanova University
  Washburn University
  Yale University
• LAWYERS
• Findlaw
  http://www.martindale.com - Finding a lawyer
• Searching case by lawyers name
  http://www.findlaw.com
  http://www.lexis.com
  http://loislaw.com/
  http://www.lexisone.com
  http://versuslaw.com/
  http://westlaw.com/
• LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS
• Alliance for Justice - National Association of Advocacy Groups
  Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
  ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
  ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Legal Education Home Page
  ALSO, American Law Sources On-Line
  American Inns of Court Foundation
  American Society of International Law
  The Appleseed Foundation - Sowing the seeds of justice.
  Center for Individual Rights
  The Center for Information Law and Policy
  Center for Law and Social Policy - Advocacy for low income persons
  Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel
  The Government Accountability Project
  HALT - An organization of Americans for Legal Reform
  Institute for Justice - Libertarian alternative to the ACLU
  International Legal Fraternity - Phi Delta Phi
  Maryland Institute of Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc.
  National Chamber Litigation Center - Advocacy for business interests
  National Legal Aid and Defender Association
  National Legal Center for the Public Interest - Public policy issues
  National Partnership for Women and Families
  National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. - Defends workers from forced unionism
  Trial Lawyers for Public Justice - Public interest law firm.
  Washington Legal Foundation - Promotes free enterprise legal principles.
• Local and State Bar Associations
  Baltimore County, Maryland Bar Association
  Bar Association of the District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Bar - Includes various resources
  Hispanic Bar Association of D. C.
  Maryland State Bar Association, Inc.
  Montgomery County Maryland Bar Association Home Page
  Prince George’s County Maryland Bar Association
  Virginia Bar Association
  Virginia State Bar Home Page
  Virginia Trial Lawyers - Has brief bank and journal articles
• National Bar Associations
  American Bar Association
  American Trial Lawyers
  Federal Bar Association - Federal practice attorneys
  Federal Communications Bar Association
  National Bar Association
• LEGAL BRIEFS ON THE WEB
• Briefs for Free
  http://www.nlrg.com/samples - Offers some sample Briefs.
  Brief Reports
  Brief Serve
• LEGAL CITATIONS - These are publications that instruct the layman or the lawyer on how to properly identify a case by the legal citation. The legal citation is the collection of letters and numbers that identify where the case can be found.
• http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation - Introduction to Basic Legal Citation - Based on the “Blue Book”.
• LEGAL DICTIONARY
• FindLaw’s Legal Dictionary
• LEGAL DISCUSSION GROUPS AND LIST SERVS
• http://www.abanet.org/discussions/home.html - Choose from Web-based conferencing and chat or browse the listserv options.
  http://www.counsel.net/chat - Message boards featuring a variety of topics such as disability insurance and foreign business issues, as well as a solo board.
  http://www.legal.net - Offers both message boards and real-time chat discussions. Once you have signed on, click on “The Forum.” The family law area appears to get a lot of traffic.
  http://www.Legalminds.findlaw.com - Topical message boards and discussion groups, as well as state groups.
• LEGAL ETHICS
• http://www.abanet.org/cpr - ABA Center for Professional Responsibility - Free initial consultation.
  Cornell’s Ethics Library - Links to each state
  Legal Ethics.com - Legal ethics site maintained by attorney/internet consultant.
• LEGAL FORMS
• http://forms.lp.findlaw.com
  http://www.forms.gov
  http://www.findlaw.com16formsindex.html - Extensive collection of links and forms.
  General Practice Forms
  Internet Legal Resources Guide
  http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/index.html
  Lectric Law Library
• LEGAL RESEARCH See also Federal Law and State Law
• Court dockets on the web
  LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - To discover which courts’ dockets are available on the Internet.
  Legal Dockets Online (LDO) - Courts’ dockets available on the Internet.
• Legal Indexes
  American Law Sources On-line - A comprehensive collection of links to free sources of law on the Internet.
  Arizona Lawyer’s Guide to the Internet
  Emory University School of Law - Emory was a leader among law schools in publishing on the internet.
  FindLaw - Free to use and remains the best starting point for finding legal information on the Web. It features the most extensive collection of Supreme Court opinions available free on the Internet, dating back to 1893.
  Hieros Gamos - One of the longest-standing and most comprehensive legal portals, Hieros Gamos boasts more than 2 million links. The front page opens with six “centers”: Law, Business, Law Events & Library, Law Practice, Law Student, Legal Employment and Law Consumer.
  The Law Engine - The focus here is on simplicity and ease of use. Its collection of links is organized into major categories, all of which are listed on one page.
  Meta-Index for U. S. Legal Research
  Law.com - It is the backbone supporting a wide-ranging network of news and information resources and law-related directories and services. Law.com’s central focus is legal news. In addition to news, Law.com offers information services such a VerdictSearch and LawCatalog, an online book store for law-related publications.
  LawGuru.com Multi Source Legal Research - LawGuru.com offers this tool for searching multiple Web sites using a single query.
  LawPeriscope - Outlines of each firm that take the information on the firm’s own site and organize it under a simple and uniform structure.
  Legal Information Institute - Publishes a host of significant legal documents on the Web, including the Constitution, the Federal Rules of Evidence, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. It also presents links to legal materials published elsewhere on the Web, organized both by topic and source.
  LexisONE - free online legal resource.
  Categories:
  Free forms
  Free case law
  Legal news
  Legal Internet guide
  The Virtual Chase - A top feature is the annotated guide to legal resources on the Web, distinguished in part by dates to annotations, so users know how recently they were written. Another feature is TVC Alert, a daily bulletin of research news, available on the Web site and by e-mail.
  WashLaw Web - One of the earliest legal indexes on the Internet and still among the most exhaustive.
• Fee Services
  Westlaw - fee service
  Lexis Nexis - fee service
  Loislaw - Lower cost than West or Lexis. Research assistance available.
  The Law.Net - Lower cost than West or Lexis. Research assistance available.
  National Law Library - Lower cost than West or Lexis. Research assistance available.
  National Legal Research Group
  Quick Law America - Lower cost than West or Lexis. Research assistance available.
  Versus Law - Lower cost than West or Lexis. Research assistance available.
• Legal Advice
  Guide to Law Online - Library of Congress
  Lawyers Express
  Nolo - Offers an advice column and a quick way to look up local law.
  http://www.uslaw.com - Offers 24 hour ask a lawyer chat service
• Free Legal Research
  http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/chapters.asp - provides access to regional associations that maintain their own directories of legal research sites.
  * Cornell Law School - Organized by topic. Excellent for U. S. Code and CFR. These codes, however, are not annotated. This site does, however, have a table of contents. It does have a keyword search capability.
  * FindLaw - Good free services. Not only do you have quick access to cases but you can get quick access to U. S. Code, Federal Register, CFR and state codes. U. S. Supreme Court opinions from 1893 are in full text.
  http://www.google.com
  Hieros Gamos - Good for finding law firms, experts, court reporters, process servers and also for finding people internationally.
  * Law Crawler - Allows keyword search of the entire Findlaw site. Probably the best legal research tool.
  Legal Research Exchange - A good resource for online legal research.
  Legal Treatises
  http://www.law.com