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Sites specially selected by our editors for their practical value to lawyers.
This list is updated regularly.
Aviation Law | Business Law | Criminal Law | Elder Law | Employment Law | Family Law | General Reference | Internet Law | Legal Reference | Medical Malpractice | Personal Injury | Practice Management | Products Liability | Social Security Law | Tax Law | Technology
Airplane Accident Data
The National Transportation Safety Board has a searchable database of every airplane accident report from 1983 to the present. Browse by month or search by location, aircraft make, model, etc. Get the official report of the accident. This site could be an excellent resource for personal injury lawyers.
www.ntsb.gov/aviation/Accident.htm
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Resource For Aviation Lawyers
Explore this site's extensive information about air safety including forums, news, databases, feature articles and much more.
http://airdisaster.com
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Resident Agents Of Corporations
This site has contact information for corporate agents for service of process in all fifty states and Puerto Rico?
www.geocities.com/resident_agent_info/residentagent.html
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SEC EDGAR Database
Register for free and search the SEC's database of corporate filings, receive alerts when a new filing occurs, download financial data and read institutional and insider analysis.
www.10kwizard.com/
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Trademark Information
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office's website allows you to search the U.S. Trademark database, obtain general trademark information, check the status of a trademark and use other legal resources.
www.uspto.gov/web/menu/tm.html
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Criminal Justice Information Center
The Justice Information Center compiles and categorizes links for dozens of criminal justice topics.
www.ncjrs.org/
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Federal Guidelines For Drunk Driving, Car Crashes, Train Accidents, Etc.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's "Desk Book" for police officers contains federal guidelines on everything from field sobriety testing, breath machines and traffic stops to highway engineering and railroad grade crossing safety. It could potentially be used as evidence as to whether proper standards were met.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/DESKBK.html
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Federal Guidelines On Searching and Seizing Computers
These sites from the Department of Justice offer advice on the proper way to search and seize computers. They could also presumably be used to challenge the propriety of a search or seizure.
www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/supplement/ssgsup.htm
www.usdoj.gov/criminal/cybercrime/search_docs/search.htm
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Relevant Case Law For Criminal Defense
This website offers recent federal circuit cases won by criminal defendants organized into 83 topics from warrantless searches to resentencing. Its goal is to help you quickly find an argument and supporting case law to help your client. It's provided by the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Northern New York and Vermont.
www.crimelynx.com/reverserrors99.html
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Attorney-Referral And Elder-Law Resources
Elderlawanswers.com is largely aimed at consumers, with some basics about Medicaid/Medicare, nursing home treatment, Social Security benefits and other subjects relevant to the elderly. However, the site also refers clients to attorneys who have paid to be listed. Members also get their own web page on the site, as well as access to a forms and document library, the right to participate in an online forum limited to attorney members and news updates on elder law developments.
www.elderlawanswers.com/
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General Information On Elder Law
Seniorlaw.com features information for Elder Law attorneys such as Medicare and Medicaid updates, links to organizations dealing with elder abuse and information on long-term care insurance.
www.seniorlaw.com
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Registration Of Living Wills Online
The U.S. Living Will Registry allows health care providers around the country to access your client's living will, making it more likely that his/her wishes will be carried out.
www.uslivingwillregistry.com/
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ADA Information
This site offers a list of documents ranging from regulations to advisories dealing with the ADA. It also features links to the act itself and to organizations specializing in ADA litigation and implementation.
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/index.htm
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Hard-To-Find ADA Documents
The Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center provides a wealth of hard-to-find documents on disability law as well as links to other related sites.
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/
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Child Support Guidelines For All 50 States
Need to know about child support guidelines in another state? This site has links to all 50 states' complete guidelines.
www.supportguidelines.com/links.html
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Automobile Values
This site provides the Kelley Blue Book value of any car, for use in valuations, divorce, estate planning, etc.
www.kbb.com/
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Foreign-Language Translation
These two websites allow you to translate from another language into English, or the reverse. You can type in text for a translation, or paste in a web address to get a translation of everything on that website.
www.freetranslation.com
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
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Notable Quotations
Need the definitive quote for your closing or a famous saying to punch up that brief or speech? Check Bartleby.com to find the perfect line.
www.bartleby.com/
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Phone Directory And More
555-1212.com makes it easy to search the white pages, yellow pages, area codes, look up zip codes, find maps or government info. Thinking about setting up a Web site for your firm? You can even check if the domain name you want is available using this helpful Web directory.
www.555-1212.com
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Residential-Homes Sale Prices
This site lets you find out the sales prices of homes near a given address. You can tailor your search according to distance from the address, time of sale or price. This is a great resource for real estate lawyers as well as homebuyers.
realestate.yahoo.com/realestate/homevalues
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Salary Information
These two websites provide salary information for over 3000 different jobs in 4800 U.S. cities.
www.salariesreview.com/freedata
www.erieri.com/doltrends/
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Specialized Terms
This website hosts links to many glossaries of terms in specialized fields. It could be helpful in understanding the lingo of insurance forms, human resources, etc.
www.insurancetranslation.com/Glossary_Agent/index.htm
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U.S. Government And Military Web Pages
FirstGove allows you to search over a million Web pages from military and government sites from around country.
www.firstgov.gov/
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U.S. Government Documents
Fedworld.gov offers access to dozens of searchable government databases.
www.fedworld.gov/
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U.S. Newspapers Online
The Kidon Media Link site links to all major newspapers with an online presence in the U.S., as well as many foreign countries.
www.kidon.com/media-link/usa.shtml
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Zip+4 Codes
Use the U.S. Postal Service site to quickly determine the 9-digit Zip Code for any address.
www.usps.com/zip4/
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Guide To Internet Law
Here's a free introduction to Internet law and a guide to the key legal issues, including website development, domain name disputes, linking, ISP liability and trademark problems.
www.bitlaw.com/internet/index.html
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Biographical Data On Federal Judges
This website allows you to find biographical information on judges of U.S. District Courts, U.S. Circuit Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court. You can research any judge who has served on one of these courts, going back to 1789.
air.fjc.gov/history/judges_frm.html
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Court Rules
Law Library Resource Xchange compiles dozens of links to federal, state and local court rules.
www.llrx.com/columns/litigat.htm
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Legal Forms
This web page compiles dozens of links to websites with legal forms, government forms and forms dealing with specific practice areas.
www.findlaw.com/16forms/index.html
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Uniform State Laws
These sites provide information on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, including the full text of all uniform laws and their current legislative status.
www.nccusl.org/
www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulc.htm
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Disciplinary Records Of Physicians
Several websites allow users to search the disciplinary records of physicians across the country.
www.questionabledoctors.org/
www.quackwatch.com
www.docinfo.org/ /107/
www.docboard.org/ /107/
www.oig.hhs.gov/fraud/exclusions/listofexcluded.html
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Gray's Anatomy
Search the definitive resource for human anatomy. This site has both an index organized by cell function and a search feature to find specific information for use in personal injury, disability, insurance, and other cases.
www.bartleby.com/107/
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Medical Data
The Grateful Med website lets you quickly search for medical information from many of the MEDLINE databases.
igm.nlm.nih.gov/
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Medical Diagnoses And Treatments
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy provides explanations, symptoms, and treatments for most medical conditions. It could be useful in general personal injury, medical malpractice, and toxic tort practice.
www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/
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Prescription Drug Information
RXList.com offers an extensive database of prescription drug information. Searchable by both brand name and generic name, it can be used for general information, med-mal cases and personal injury.
www.rxlist.com/interact.htm
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Demonstrative Evidence Providers
The Demonstrative Evidence Specialist Association offers a list of members providing evidence preparation by city and state.
www.desa.org
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Federal And Industry Standards
Products liability and other lawyers can find information on federal and industry standards at the American National Standards Institute site.
www.ansi.org/
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Help With Toxic Torts
This site, sponsored by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, provides descriptions of hazardous materials, a database of Superfund sites, and other information that can be useful in toxic tort cases.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/atsdrhome.html
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Information On Latex Allergies
This site provides medical information on the causes and effects of latex allergies, suggestions on treating the condition, lists of products and situations that might affect the condition and other information that might be used in litigating this up-and-coming toxic tort.
www.anesth.com/lair/lair.html
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Online Sex Offender Registries
Find sex offender records easily with this site. This information could be helpful in negligent hiring or retention cases.
www.llrx.com/columns/megan.htm
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What Jurors Are Thinking
With Aboutjuries.com you can join in discussions with trial lawyers and experts about jury behavior, share information, and get recommendations on resources that will be helpful to your practice.
www.aboutjuries.com
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CLE Requirements For Every State
The CLE policies and procedures for every state with a mandatory CLE program are collected in this report from ALI-ABA.
www.ali-aba.org/aliaba/mclef.htm
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Electronic Evidence
Evidence Finder.com is both a tutorial on how to effectively discover and use electronic evidence and also a repository for details of how it has been used in past cases.
evidence.finder.com/dockery/
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Ethical Issues In Use Of The Internet
This site offers information on Internet-related ethics issues with links to state ethics opinions.
www.legalethics.com/
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Ethics Rules For Lawyer Advertising
An ABA website links to ethics rules governing lawyer advertising and marketing for 42 states. You can easily find the rules governing your own state and read them free.
www.abanet.org/adrules
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Law-Related Listservs And Usenet Groups
Here's a searchable database of discussion groups related to law.
www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html
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Malpractice Insurance
An ABA site tells you every malpractice carrier who writes policies in your state and offers a point-by-point comparison of what they offer.
www.abanet.org/legalservices/lpl.html
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Research Skills
Law Library Resource Xchange's Web site offers free links to articles written by law librarians and attorneys. Each online issue of this "Webzine" highlights current technology and research trends that affect your practice.
www.llrx.com
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Resource For Paralegals
This site has the full text of all back issues of the Paralegal Reporter. A good resource to point out to your paralegals.
www.paralegals.org/Reporter/home.html
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Rules For Multijuristictional Practice
CrossingtheBar.com offers state bar admission rules, rules for corporate counsel, and pro hac vice rules lawyers should know if planning to practice in other states.
www.crossingthebar.com/pro_hac_vice.htm/
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Auto Defect Information
This National Highway Traffic Safety Administration site lets you easily search for automobile recalls, consumer complaints, defect investigations, safety studies, technical service bulletins and more.
www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/
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Consumer Product Safety Commission's List Of Recalls
Easily find recalls using this site. You can search by product, company, or do a general search. This is a great resource for products liability attorneys.
www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html
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Crash Data On Hundreds of Vehicles
This site offers crash data on virtually every car and may be useful to product liability and personal injury lawyers, as well as car buyers.
www.Crashtest.com/
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Social Security Disability Law Information
Severe.net provides information on Social Security disability cases including news, regulations, forms and guides to specific disabilities.
www.severe.net/
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IRS Interest Rate Tables
Here's a guide to helpful IRS interest rate tables, including tables for valuation of annuities, life interests, and remainder interests, short, mid- and long-term rates, overpayment and underpayment rates, and more.
www.leimberg.com/software/7520rate.html
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Roth IRA Analysis
The Roth IRA Analyzer lets you compare Roth vs. traditional IRA and lets you do a Roth IRA conversion analysis. See how a change in tax rates will affect your investments. Click here and scroll down to "E&Y Personal Financial Planning Resources." Click on the "Roth IRA Analyzer."
www.taxcast.com/f-knowledg.htm
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Tax Information Resource
Taxsites.com offers an extensive set of links to tax information nationwide.
www.taxsites.com
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Domain Name Availability
Find out if the domain name you or a client wants to use for a website is available and if not, who owns it using Network Solutions.
www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/
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Free E-mail, Voicemail And Faxes
Onebox.com allows you to receive all your messages-e-mail, voicemail and faxes--in one place, for free! You can even send e-mail in your own voice.
www.onebox.com
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Free Intranet
Set up an intranet for free using Intranets.com. Share information with co-workers, including documents and contact information. Create a group calendar or make announcements.
www.intranets.com
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Free Personalized Portal
NAMEzero.com lets you set up your own personal portal, organizing links to your favorite Web sites, e-mail and chat. You can also get a free e-mail account.
www.namezero.com/
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Legal Software For Macintosh Users
Macattorney.com offers information on law office software for lawyers who use Macintosh computers.
www.macattorney.com
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Who's Linking to Your Website?
Find out what other websites are linking to yours using this free service.
www.linkpopularity.com
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