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United States

The United States government’s official web portal, USA.gov (formerly FirstGov.gov) is an good starting point when looking for any federal Web resource.

The White House

Briefing room, current issues, the administration, a White House blog, and more.

United States Senate

Senators, committees, legislation, records, history, and reference.

United States House of Representatives

Find representatives, bills, amendments, debates, and vote information.

United States Courts

The gateway to all United States federal- court websites. Start here if you need a case, administrative rule or other information from a federal court about which you are unfamiliar.

GovEngine

"The premire federal, state & local government site on the Internet."


U.S. Government Sources for Public Records and “Publicly Available” InformationUS Govt Sources

United States Code

Search and download the official United States Code from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of Representatives.

Government Printing Office

The Government Printing Office website contains official information from all three branches of the federal government. Congressional bills and record, public/private laws, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulation, the Federal Register, and more can all be found here.

Congressional Record

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress and is published daily when Congress is in session. GPO Access contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present.

Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office (formerly, the General Accounting Office) is the audit, evaluation, and investigation arm of Congress. Here you can find Congressional reports, economic and financial reports, key national indicators, and economic statistics on topics that range from Federal Budget and Fiscal Issues to Financial Management, Education, Defense, Homeland Security, Administration of Justice, Health Care, Information Management and Technology, Natural Resources, Environment, International Affairs, Trade, Financial Markets, Housing, Government Management and Human Capital.

United States Census

Not only can you access, for free, complete local and national census results, which can be helpful factually in a multitude of ways, (e.g., in discrimination cases) but this Web site is a key resource for analyzing jury-pool demographics. With it you can find out all age, race, income, education, and other information about any county in the country.

PACER

PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic database run by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. There are currently PACER systems available in the U.S. Supreme Court, all of the Federal District Courts, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. PACER is administered centrally; however, each court operates its own system locally so data is not integrated across jurisdictions. PACER is best if you know in which court the case was filed along with the case number, party name, or filing date. PACER charges a small per-page fee.

There are other similar but more expensive resources, including Courtlink, CourtExpress, and Westlaw, which allow searches across multiple jurisdictions on any section or combination of sections from the docket. Possible search criteria include, names of parties, judges, attorneys and law firms, case subjects, date ranges, and text of clerk’s docket entry items. Courtlink also offers information from certain state courts, including Delaware Court of Chancery dockets, Cook County, Illinois, and New York State Supreme Court. CourtExpress covers International Trade Commission petitions and complaints, and WestDockets allows for a traditional terms and connectors search for a few dollars.

Recap the Law

RECAP is a free add-on to the excellent Firefox web browser that gives PACER users an easy way to contribute to a free, open repository of federal court records. When a RECAP user purchases a document from PACER, the RECAP extension automatically sends a copy of that document to the RECAP archive. The best part is that RECAP saves users money by notifying them when documents they’re searching for are already available for free from the public archive.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress site allows you to search its catalogues and use the associated “Thomas” legislative information site for information on bills, votes, members, etc.

GOVTRACK

Helping you keep tabs onthe US Congress.

Congressional Roll Call

The newspaper of Capitol Hill since 1955.


GovEngine

"The premire federal, state & local government site on the Internet."

State and Local Government on the Net

This site provides links to all state, county, and city government sites and can be helpful when information is needed from a different jurisdiction. The resource can be used, for example, to find a county website in another state from which you may be able to locate case-docketing information.

MuniCode

Click on “Online Library” to access on-line versions of municipal codes for virtually every municipality in the country.

National Association of Secretaries of State

Often it is a state's Department of State that has key information about corporations, liens, licensing, administrative law, and election information. For example, it can sometimes be helpful to determine corporate status and the officers and directors of a corporation by searching the Department of State’s website in the state of incorporation. This site includes information for all states' departments of state, but is not as useful before it took down the map-link reference to each state's SOS. Links to individual state secretaries are in state sections below.


Alabama


Alaska


Arizona


Arkansas


 

 

California


Colorado


Connecticut


 

 

Delaware


 

Florida

My Florida: Florida’s Official Portal

Use the site map to find links to state agencies, committees, commissions, associations and other entities.

OnLine Sunshine

Links to Florida statutes, Constitution and laws.

Florida Department of State

In charge of corporations and elections, the Department of State’s site includes links to Florida’s Administrative Code, General Laws, as well as corporate and election information.

Florida Campaign Financing Contributions

Search by candidate or contributor for historical data on reported campaign contributions. Often an important tool for checking out a judge or other elected official.

Division of Corporations

This is where to find annual reports and other public filings of Florida corporations. Useful to determine whether corporations are in good status (and, therefore, are able to sue or be sued), as well as to find information about officers and directors.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Florida State Courts

Links to all state courts (county, circuit, district).

Rules Regulating the Florida Bar

On-line version including the Florida Rules of Professional Conduct.

Florida Rules of Professional Conduct [pdf]

Current as of December 1, 2008.


Georgia


Hawaii


Idaho


Illinois


Indiana


Iowa


Kansas


Kentucky


Louisiana


Maine


Maryland


Massachusetts


Michigan


Minnesota


Mississippi


Missouri


Montana


Nebraska


Nevada


New Hampshire


New Jersey


New Mexico


 

 

New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


North Carolina


North Dakota


Ohio


Oklahoma


Oregon


Pennsylvania


Rhode Island


South Carolina

South Carolina Home Page

South Carolina State, County and City Websites

South Carolina Judicial Department

South Carolina Legislature

U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina

South Carolina Secretary of State


South Dakota


Tennessee


Texas


Utah



Virginia


Washington


West Virginia


Wisconsin


Wyoming


 


PRACTICE AREAS

AuditAccounting | AdminPro | AdmiraltyMaritime | Arbitration | Aviation | BusTorts | CivilProcedure | Communications | Construction | Constitutional | Contracts | Corporate | CriminalWhiteCollar | Energy | E-Discovery | Election | EUPrivacy | Evidence | Franchising | International | IP/Patent | LaborEmployment | LegalEthics | LegalWriting | Medical/Healthcare | ProductLiability | RealEstate | Securities | Tax | Zoning


 

Accounting & Audit

Financial Accounting Standards Board

Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting. Those standards govern the preparation of financial statements and are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

American Accounting Association

A voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research. Formed in 1916, the AAA is the principal association of accounting academics in the US. Its main publication is The Accounting Review, first published in 1926.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

The PCAOB is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and futher the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.

BDO Seideman

BDO Seideman, LLP is the US member firm of BDO International, the largest global accounting and consulting network outside the big four.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Deloitte is a big-four accounting firm, and one of the largest professional services firms in the world.

Ernst & Young

E&Y, or EY is a big-four accounting firm, and one of the largest professional services firms in the world. Ranked as Forbes 7th largest US private company in 2007.

Grant Thorton

A global organization of accounting and consulting member firms. Although many of the firms carry the Grant Thornton name, they are not all members of one international partnership.

KPMG

KPMG is a big-four accounting firm, and one of the largest professional services firms in the world.

PricewaterhouseCoopers

PwC is a big-four accounting firm, and the world's largest professional services firm. It was formed in 1998 from a merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand.

Rutgers Accounting Web (RAW)

Rutgers University's accounting resource.


Administrative Procedureqdw

Administrative Procedure Database

Florida State University's admin database.


 

Admiralty Law Guide

The Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide includes over 1,500 links to admiralty law resources on the Internet and a database of admiralty case digests, opinions and international maritime conventions.

Maritime Law Association of the United States

Links to admiralty/maritime resources.

MegaLaw Admiralty/Maritime Links

Links to admiralty/maritime resources.

Miami Maritime Arbitration Council

The increase in trade through the ports of Florida, including Miami and Port Everglades, and the increasingly important role of Miami as the financial and cultural capital of Latin America, inspired creation of the Miami Maritime Arbitration Council ("MMAC"). The goal of the Council is to assist in obtaining fair, confidential and inexpensive resolutions to maritime disputes, both domestic and international.

MMAC Rules


 

Arbitration qdw

American Arbitration Association

AAA Rules

The American Arbitration Association provides services to individuals and organizations who wish to resolve conflicts out of court. Its role in the dispute-resolution process is to provide administrative services for cases including assisting in the appointment of arbitrators, setting hearings, and providing users with information on dispute resolution options.

Association for International Arbitration

The Association for International Arbitration (AIA) works towards promotion of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in general and arbitration in particular, as a means of dispute resolution and strives to bring together the global community in this field, be it as professionals in the form of judges, lawyers, arbitrators, mediators or as academics as well research scholars and students. The association is not an arbitration institute and does not make arbitral appointments.

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

The "CIArb" is a not-for-profit, UK registered charity working in the public interest through an international network of branches and has a global membership of around 12,000 individuals who have professional training in private dispute resolution. It exists for the global promotion, facilitation and development of all forms of private dispute resolution to maximize the contribution that dispute resolution practitioners make. CIArb acts as an international center for practitioners, policy makers, academics and those in business concerned with the cost-effective and early settlement of disputes.

FINRA

FINRA Rules

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority operates the largest dispute resolution forum in the securities industry to assist in the resolution of monetary and business disputes between and among investors, securities firms and individual registered representatives.

ICC International Court of Arbitration

ICC Rules

The International Chamber of Commerce runs the ICC International Court of Arbitration, one of the world's leading institutions for resolving international commercial and business disputes. The court has handled more than16,000 cases since founded in 1923. In 2008, 663 cases were filed, involving 1,758 parties from 120 countries. ICC arbitration is an attractive alternative to national courts for resolving international business disputes because cases are confidential and can be resolved in neutral countries by international arbitrators.

International Centre of Dispute Resolution

ICDR Rules

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) established the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). The "Centre" is charged with the administration of all of the AAA's international matters. Additionally, the ICDR has cooperative agreements with arbitral institutions around the world for facilitating the administration of its international cases. ICDR arbitration is under its specific rules, which allow parties to choose where a dispute will be arbitrated and an ability to select an arbitrator or mediator with appropriate language skills.

JAMS

JAMS Rules

JAMS (originally standing for Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services) was founded in California in 1979. JAMS is now the largest private alternative dispute resolution provider in the world. JAMS specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex, multi-party, business/commercial cases and prides itself on its panel more than 250 full-time arbitral neutrals.

London Court of International Arbitration

LCIA Rules

Orginally founded in 1892, the LCIA is one of the oldest international institutions for commercial dispute resolution. Based in London, the LCIA provides international administration of dispute resolution proceedings for parties, regardless of their location or native system of law.

Miami Maritime Arbitration Council

MMAC Rules

The increase in trade through the ports of Florida, including Miami and Port Everglades, and the increasingly important role of Miami as the financial and cultural capital of Latin America, inspired creation of the Miami Maritime Arbitration Council ("MMAC"). The goal of the Council is to assist in obtaining fair, confidential and inexpensive resolutions to maritime disputes, both domestic and international.

National Arbitration Forum

NAF Rules

Founded in 1986, the National Arbitration Forum is a U.S. national and international administrator of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services including mediation and arbitration.

Permanent Court of Arbitration

UNCITRAL Rules

Located in The Hague and established by treaty in 1899, the PCA is an intergovernmental organization with over 100 member states that provides a variety of dispute-resolution services to the international community. The PCA administers arbitration, conciliation and fact finding in disputes involving various combinations of states, private parties, state entities, and intergovernmental organizations. International commercial arbitration can also be conducted under PCA auspices. The PCA’s two working languages are English and French. However, proceedings may be conducted in any language agreed on by the parties. The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, adopted in 1976, contemplate that parties should specify an appointing authority in their arbitration agreement who will appoint arbitrators and decide challenges when necessary. Otherwise the rules entrust the Secretary-General of the PCA with the role of designating an "appointing authority" upon request of a party to arbitration proceedings.


 
Aviation qdw

Air Accident Digest

Maintained by plaintiffs' law firm.

Aviation Links

Your “link” to the world of aviation, with thousands of links to aviation resources.

Aviation Week

Serving over 1.2 million professionals in 185 countries, Aviation Week is the largest information and services provider to the global commercial, defense, maintenance/repair/overhaul (MRO), space and business aviation communities and connects industry professionals worldwide.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Office of Airline Information (OAI) database.

Flight Safety Foundation

An independent, nonprofit, international organization engaged in research, auditing, education, advocacy and publishing to improve aviation safety.

International Air Transport Association

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board


 

Bankruptcy qdw

American Bankruptcy Institute

"The essential resource for today's busy insolvency professional."

Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

All the bankruptcy blogs in one convenient location.

Bankruptcy Code Online

Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as amended, and related statutory provisions.

American College of Bankruptcy

An honorary association of bankruptcy and insolvency professionals.

Bankruptcy Dictionary

Dictionary of bankruptcy terminology.

Bankruptcy Law Network

Group of bankruptcy attorneys and consumer advocates.

Bankruptcy Rules Online

The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure.

Bid 4 Assets

Bid for houses, cars, electronics, etc. from bankruptcy estates.

Commercial Law League of America

Since 1895, the CLLA approaches bankruptcy from the creditors' perspective.

Cornell's Bankruptcy Law Center

A good place to begin basic bankruptcy research.

Internet Bankruptcy Library

Worldwide troubled company resources.

National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees

NABT is a nonprofit association formed in 1982 to address the needs of chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees and to promote the effectiveness of the bankruptcy system.

National Association of Chapter 13 Trustees

Fairly good links to North American corporation codes.

National Bankruptcy Archives

The University of Pennsylvania's National Bankruptcy Archives includes extensive electronic resources.

U.S. Bankruptcy Courts

Official federal bankruptcy site including links to all courts and resources.

U.S. Courts Bankruptcy Forms

Official forms from USCourts.gov.


 

Business Torts qdw

BNET Business Tort Resources

Articles and white papers.


 

Civil Procedureqdw

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [pdf]

As amended December 1, 2009. Includes rule changes on deadlines and forms.

MegaLaw Civ Pro Page

Links to federal and state rules and statutes.

Wiki Civ Pro

Links on corporate governance and related subjects.


 

Communications qdw

Center for Communication Law & Policy

The CCLP is affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Law and undertakes and supports academic research on issues related to communications law and regulation, and technology policy.

Federal Communications Law Journal

Indiana University School of Law's on-line law review.

Georgetown Communications Law Research Page

Good source of sources.

Lessig Blog

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig' blog about copyright and network neutrality.

Washington Law Communication Page

Links to resources.


 

Construction Web Links

The name says it all.

MegaLaw Construction and Architectural Law

Links to construction law decisions, statutes, regulations, and Internet resources.

PubliConstructionLaw

Although focused on California, this site has links to numerous construction-law resources.


 

Constitutional Law qdw

Constitutional Law Prof Blog

Edited by law professors.

Constitutional Law & Rights

Lawcopedia's constitutional law resource.

Exploring Constitutional Law

The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law's quirky but informative con-law page.

Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet

University of Chicago resource with focus on international constitutional law.

SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court news with summaries and analysis of new opinions.

U.S. Supreme Court

Sections for Recent Decisions, About the Supreme Court, Docket, Oral Arguments, Merits Briefs, Bar Admissions, Court Rules, Case Handling Guides, Opinions, Orders and Journals, Visiting the Court, Public Information, Jobs, and Links.

U.S. Supreme Court Center

Findlaw's Supreme Court resource with biographies of justices, briefs, cases by topic for each term, calendar, court history, rules, orders, news, and more.


 

Contractsqdw

Contract Law - An Introduction

ExpertLaw's elementary contract law resource.

Cornell Legal Information Institute's Contracts Page

Overview and links to restatement and UCC resources.

Free Advice

Mainly consumer contract issues.


 

Corporate/Transactional qdw

Business.gov

The official business link to the U.S. government.

DealBook

The New York Times excellent M&A and finance blog edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Corporate Forms Corporate Law Links

Fairly good links to North American corporation codes.

Corporate Governance

Links on corporate governance and related subjects.

eBizMBA

An eBusiness Knowledgebase tha finds the Web's answers to business questions.

HG – Lex Mundi

HG’s Corporate Law- Business Law section.

My Corporate Resource

This site is s designed to provide the latest in legal and commercial information from the world’s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. This site aggregates, reviews, sorts and summarizes this content---for free--resulting in an excellent resource.

Robert's Rules of Order

Bartleby's version of the autoritative manual on deliberative procedure.

SEC.gov

At the Securities & Exchange Commission site, search the on-line EDGAR database of corporate filings of publicly held companies. Search for a person over the entire database, or find quarterly and annual reports, and other disclosures using a company's name or trading symbol. Click on "Search for Company Filings."

Transaction Space

Site aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. Lawyers begin by identifying the documents the transaction will require, and the parties who will have to sign each document. The system then tracks the back-and-forth of negotiating and revising the wording of each document, maintaining a full record of versions and dates. Once the documents are done, the system prepares the necessary signature pages and delivers them to the appropriate parties. Signatures are held in escrow until all are in and the deal closed. Progress is shown graphically in a matrix depicting documents and signatories. Users can see the progression of drafts signature status in real time. While in beta, there is no charge to use it. Its developers, who are lawyers, have not decided on post-beta pricing, but say it will be based on a flexible, pay-as-you-go subscription.


Criminal & White Collarqdw

Cornell Legal Information Institute Criminal Law Overview

Basics on criminal law with some links including US Code.

HG Criminal Law Overview

Basics on criminal law with links to additional introductory information.

HG White Collar Law Guide

A guide to white collar crime law.

Crime and Victims Statistics

US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Crime Trends

US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Criminal Searches

"Do you really know who people are?" Criminal Searches offers free criminal searches, complete with mug shots and addresses.

Department of Commerce: Denied Persons List

You may not engage in export or reexport transactions with persons on this list.

Department of Justice

Locate an inmate, a sex-offender Website, or a myriad of publications and other resources.

Department of Justice A-Z

Index of major DOJ pages.

Download PDF memoranda of January 2010 DOJ guidance on discovey/Brady issues here 1 2 3.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FBI.gov has news, investigative priorities, most-wanted information, and more.

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Inmate locator for finding Federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 to the present.

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure [pdf]

As amended December 1, 2007.

Grand Jury Manual

On-line version of the DOJ's Grand Jury Manual.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Statistical Briefing Book

Statistics on juvenile crime.


 
E-Discovery and Forensics qdw

Computer Forensics Digest

A legal resource for attorneys, law enforcement, and the public.

E-Discovery Law

K&LGates' well-known e-discovery blog and resource.

EDRM

The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) develops guidelines and standards for e-discovery consumers and providers. Its graphic model of the flow of electronic discovery is one of the most widely used graphics in e-discovery seminars and training materials. But clicking on the graphic at the Website provides a wealth of information on every aspect of information management, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, production and presentation.

E-Law Exchange

"Guiding your electronic discovery and evidence decisions."

Electronic Discovery Institute

The e-Discovery Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to resolving electronic discovery challenges by conducteing studies of litigation processes that incorporate modern technologies.

IMS Guide to E-Discovery Resources on the Web

This expert services vendor provides a decent guide to internet e-discovery resources.

Legal Electronic Document Institute

The Legal Electronic Document Institute is a Washington non-profit corporation (seemingly run from New Orleans) established to promote the development of education and standards in the field of legal electronic documents, including practice management of electronic documents, electronic trial practice with litigation support systems, e-filing, e-signatures and e-discovery.

Legal Hold Blog

Managing Discovery of Electronic Information: A Pocket Guide for Judges [pdf]

Learn what the judges learn from the Federal Judicial Center.

Sedona Conference

The Sedona Conference is an institute that provides educational programs and working groups. Since cited by Judge Schindlin in the watershed Zubulake opinions, Sedona's "Principles" and "Guidelines" have become well known and are persuasive in the resolution of e-discovery disputes.

Sedona Publications

All of Sedona's principles, guidelines, glossaries and working papers can be downloaded for personal use at no charge after entering name and email information.

Sedona WG-6 Wiki

The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 has created this wiki with an excellent overview of laws--especially laws pertaining to privacy and discovery--internationally.

State E-Discovery Resource

LexisNexis and Applied Discovery's state law electronic discovery compilation.

"Zubulake Revisited: Six Years Later" [pdf]

Download the full text of the amended order and opionion Pension Committee v. Banc of America Secs., Judge Scheindlin's latest contribution to the e-discovery dialogue, discussing appropriate sanctions for various degrees of failure in the preservation and collection of electronically stored information.

"Zubulake Revisited" PLI Presentation [ppt]

Download the PowerPoint used at the February 24, 2010 PLI presentation on the Pension Committee v. Banc of America Securities case.


 

Election Law qdw

Election Law Blog

Loyola Law School (LA) professor Rick Hanson's blog on election law, campaign finance, legislation, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and the Supreme Court nomination process.

Federal Election Commission

The FEC is the US independent regulatory agency created to administer and enforce the financing of federal elections. Site includes campaign finance reports and data.

Federal Election Commission Regulations

FEC regs from the Government Printing Office.

MegaLaw Election Law Resource

Great compilation of links to decisions, federal and state statutes, and other election resources.

More Soft Money Hard Law

Obama lawyer Bob Bauer's site on campaign finance, with links to campaign finance reform resources.


 

Energy, Oil & Gas qdw

Cornell's Energy Law Resource

The place to begin your research on energy law.

Energy Legal Blog

Your resource for updates and analysis on national and regional energy issues.

Institute for Energy Law

Founded in 1959, The Institute for Energy Law (IEL) counts among its membership many of the world's leading energy companies and attorneys.


EU Privacy

CNiL

The Commission Nationale de L'informatique et des Libertés is the independent French administrative data-protection authority. Official site includes commentary on implementation and interpretation of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC

English text of original EU data protection directive that the Union required to be adopted by each Member State not later than October 1998.

EU Data Protection Guide [pdf]

The official English-language version of the EU guide on the data protection directive.

HH DataProtection

Hogan & Hartson's blog on primarily EU data protection and privacy issues.

WP 158 [pdf]

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Working Document 1/2009 on Pre-Trial Discovery for Cross Border Civil Litigation.

WP 114 [pdf]

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party Working Document on a Common Interpretation of Article 26(1) of Directive 95/45/EC.

When Continents and Cultures Collide [ppt]

ABA Aviation & Space Law Committee presentation on cross-border e-discovery.


 

Evidence qdw

Cornell's Evidence Overview

Including the FRE with notes.

Federal Rules of Evidence [pdf]

As amended December 1, 2006.


 

Franchising qdw

Franchise Help

A good site for general franchising issues. It includes fee access to Uniform Franchise Offering Circulars and other franchisor information.


 

International qdw

CataLaw

Legal research portal with emphasis on international law. Calls itself the “catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet.

Department of Commerce: Denied Persons List

You may not engage in export or reexport transactions with persons on this list.

HG Worldwide Legal Directories

An international legal directory created by the Lex Mundi law-firm association.

LegiFrance

The official legal website of the French Republic. (Site is in French.)

Sedona WG-6 Wiki

The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 has created this wiki with an excellent overview of laws--especially laws pertaining to privacy and discovery--internationally.

World Legal Information Institute

Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.


 

IP and Patent qdw

AlphaPatent

Navigate to “products” and “download patents” for download services for ordering patent documents.  General patent information.

Japanese Patent Office

KuesterLaw

A portal focusing on technology and intellectual property sites.  Check “IP Resources” section for interesting and substantive IP sites.

Patently-O

Claims to be the Internet's most popular patent-law blog. Summarizes key patent decisions.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

How-to guides, patent trademark and copyright searches, and much more.

USPTO Examiners

An anonymous forum for patent professionals to review, rank and learn about patent examiners and trademark examining attorneys. "Prior knowledge about a particular patent examiner or a trademark examining attorney can be a valuable tool when planning and strategizing the prosecution of a patent or trademark case."


 

Labor & Employment qdw

ADA Home Page

Information and technical assistance from the DOJ on the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The place to find government statitstics on issues including inflation, prices, spending and credit use, unemployment, pay, productivity, and workplace injuries.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The EEOC has information on employment discrimination, laws, filing charges, enforcement statistics and employment statistics.

Free Advice

You may get what you pay for, but the Employment Labor Law section of this site answers may general labor and employment questions, like "How long may I work as an H-1B temporary worker?"

Labor and Employment Law Blog

The purpose of this blog is to provide articles on labor and employment issues that involve federal labor and employment laws, and to be a resource for employers, human resource professionals, and labor relation's officers.

LawMemo

The the mission of this self-described "First in Employment Law" site is to publish summaries of the latest court decisions.

National Labor Relations Board

The NLRB is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.

OSHA

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration's mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Congress created OSHA under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 29, 1970.

U.S. Department of Labor

The Department of Labor webiste is rich with news, numbers, facts and FAQs.

Wage and Hour Division

The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is responseible for enforcing federal labor laws on topics including minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, youth employment, and others.


 

Ass’n of Professional Responsibility Lawyers

Professional responsibility links provided by the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.

Cornell

Cornell’s library on American legal ethics.

Ethics Scoreboard

Stores and commentary on all aspects of professional ethics.

Legal Ethics

Focused on ethical issues associated with the use of technology by legal professionals.

Legal Ethics Forum

Ethics forum run by law professors.

Professional Ethics Codes

Online codes of ethics for all professions.

Four Horsemen of the Digital, Ethical Apocalypse [ppt]

Presentation on Florida legal ethics in the age of electronic practice.


 

Bartleby

Bartleby publishes thousands of classic reference, verse, fiction and non-fiction books on-line. Direct links to several are included below.

Bluebook

You still have to pay for the Bluebook, but the “Blue Tips” section of its site provides free and interesting citation analysis.

Elements of Style

Bartleby’s on-line version of the William Strunk, Jr. classic.

Government Style Manual

Is it 10:00 a.m. or 10 a.m.? When do you spell out a number? Were they the 1960s or 1960’s? When the Bluebook doesn't have the answer, the Government Style Manual is the ultimate authority.

OneLook Dictionary

This meta-search engine enables you to search 970 dictionaries at once. Also does translations.

SparkNotes

On-line Cliff-type notes with a decent legal writing section that includes basic concepts for drafting the case note, the legal memorandum, the appellate brief, as well as general tips on legal writing.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit

The Seventh Circuit seems to have taken the lead on trying to educate lawyers as to what formatting looks best, reads best, and is most persuasive. Two documents, Requirements and Suggestions for Typography in Briefs and Other Papers, as well as the article by Ruth Anne Robbins, Painting with Print: Incorporating Concepts of Typographic and Layout Design Into the Text of Legal Writing Documents, are both posted on the Circuit’s website under “Guides.”


 

Medical qdw

American Medical Association

Resources, Medical Journals, news and information.

Anatomy of the Human Body

Bartleby’s on-line version of Grey’s Anatomy including “1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color.”

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Site offers a significant amount of information about illness, aging, nutrition, workplace safety, injuries and violence.

Department of Health & Human Services

The principal U.S. agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. Site includes pages on diseases, prevention, preparedness, and regulations.

Hospital Rankings

U.S. News & World Report's rankings of America's best hospitals.

Medline

Run by the National Institutes of Health, MedlinePlus has links to tutorials, clinical trials, and medical journals.

Medscape

Medscape offers robust and integrated medical information and educational tools.

Merick Manuals

Online versions of the best medical manuals available.

New England Journal of Medicine

Non subscribers can access indexes and recent articles.

PubMed

A free database service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.

WebMD

WebMD provides health information, tools for managing health, and other related information.


 

Products Liability qdw

Consumer Product Safety Commission

The CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.

Cornell's Products Liability Overview

LII's basics on products liaibility law.

Drug and Device Law

Blog on the defense of pharmaceutical and medical device product-liability litigation.

ExpertLaw

Includes basics on product law and articles.

FindLaw

Products liability news compiled by FindLaw.

Law360

Products liability news compiled by Law360.

MegaLaw

Links to articles and websites on products liability.


 

Real Estate qdw

California Department of Real Estate

Download laws, regulations and pertinent excerpts from the California Codes.

Cornell's Real Estate Transactions Overview

The basics on real estate transactional issues with links to statutes and related topics.

FindLaw

Good links and resources on property law.

HG Guide to Real Estate and Property Law

Links to international property law articles and resources.

PropertyProf Blog

The Law Professor Blogs Network resident property professor.

ThinkGlink

Articles and advice on real-estate law.

Zillow

A great resource for comps, recent sales, and overall trends by area.


 

Securities qdw

Cornell's Securities Law Overview

With good links to the federal statutes including the Securities Act of 1933, the Exchange Act of 1934, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

DealBook

The New York Times excellent M&A and finance blog edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

EDGAR

At the Securities & Exchange Commission site, search the on-line EDGAR database of corporate filings of publicly held companies. Search for a person over the entire database, or find quarterly and annual reports, and other disclosures using a company's name or trading symbol. Click on "Search for Company Filings."

FINRA

The Financial Industries Regulatory Authority.

NYSE

The New York Stock Exchange homepage.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

The PCAOB is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and futher the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.

SecLaw

Good securities law information from the Beam & Astarita law firm.

SEC Red Book [pdf]

The Securities & Exchange Commission's enforcement manual.

Securities Lawyer's Deskbook

Securities resources and links for the practitioner publsihed by the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Securities Litigation Watch

RiskMetrics Group's calendar of securities litigation events.


 

Tax qdw

Deloitte Tax

Intertational tax resource from the Big 5 accounting firm.

EU Taxation

Europa's taxation section.

Internal Revenue Service

Tax information from the source.

Tax Policy Blog

The official WebLog of the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit research organization that has monitored tax policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937.

TaxProf Blog

Intersection of taxation and scholarship.

TaxSites

Tax, accounting and payroll sites directory.

Tax Tips

Answers to your federal income tax questions.

WSJ Tax Blog

Wall Street Journal's tax blog.


 

Zoning & Land Useqdw

Cornell

The Legal Information Institute's land-use section.

FreeAdvice

Answers to basic zoning questions.

MegaLaw

Links to state and federal zoning and land use resources.



 

Wayback Machine

One of the most amazing resources on the web, Archive.org archives images of Websites periodically, and if you know the name of a site—even a now-defunct site—a search of the Wayback Machine will likely turn up the site’s content at many different times in history. Great resource for issues of copyright, defamation, business torts, or just finding a bio from an old employer's Website.


 

Legal Research

American Bar Association

The ABA’s site has helpful lawyer resources and information.

CataLaw

Legal research portal with emphasis on international law. Calls itself the “catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet.

Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute

This was the first law-related site on the World Wide Web. Founded in 1993, before most lawyers had Internet access. This is a first-tier site for free legal research. Start new topics in the "Law About" section.

Criminal Searches

"Do you really know who people are?" Criminal Searches offers free criminal searches, complete with mug shots and addresses.

Daubert on the Web

Over 200 Daubert-related opinions, organized by jurisdiction.

FindLaw

FindLaw is a good, free legal-research site. The resource includes areas for students, legal professionals, businesses, corporate counsel, and the public.

Gavel 2 Gavel

"Today's directory for tomorrow's Internet."

Google Scholar

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, U.S. federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1791. In addition, it includes citations for cases cited by indexed opinions or journal articles which allows you to find influential cases (usually older or international) which are not yet online or publicly available. Google does not warrant that the information is complete or accurate.

HG Worldwide Legal Directories

An international legal directory created by the Lex Mundi law-firm association.

Inter Alia

An Internet legal-research weblog, among other things.

JURIST

Legal news and research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Justia

Good legal-resource aggregator.

Law.com

ALM’s on-line news service.

Law Liabrary Resource Exchange

Law and technology resources for legal professionals.

LexisWeb

Lexis's free search tool searches legal-oriented sites so that users "can trust that all content has met LexisNexis criteria for being authoritative and accurate."

MegaLaw

Links to law topics, federal and state statutes, rules, forms and more.

Nolo

“Your Legal Companion Since 1971.” In addition to selling legal forms, Nolo’s “Lolopedia” section offers free, plain-language explanations of many legal issues.

Open Jurist

"Making the laws of the land accessible to the people of the land."

Public Legal

A catorgized index of over 4,000 websites with an emphasis on U.S. law.

Public Library of Law

"The world's largest free law library." Access to primary sources including federal and state cases, statutes, regulations and consititutions.

Public Resource

Making government information more accessible.

Recap the Law

A free add-on to the Firefox web browser that gives PACER users a way to contribute to, and take from a free, open repository of federal court records. When a RECAP user purchases a document from PACER, the RECAP extension automatically sends a copy of that document to the RECAP archive. Then RECAP saves users money by notifying them when documents they’re searching for are already available for free from the public archive.

Search Systems

Sells access to public records from around the country. PC World calls it "one of the oldest and most reliable of these companies." Find marriage records, death records, businss permits, property records for a $5 monthly fee, or use the "premium" service for bankruptcy and criminal records.

U.S. Code

Cornell's U.S. Code collection.

USLaw

Bills itself as the "#1 Consumer Law Website: Law for All."

World Legal Information Institute

Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.

Zimmerman's Research Guide

An on-line encyclopedia for legal researchers.


 

General Research

BUBL

Excellent catalogue of Internet resources covering all academic subject areas.

Deep Web Research

The "deep Web," sometimes called the "invisible Web" covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the World Wide Web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. This site is designed to provide a wide range of resources to better understand the history of deep web research. Includes various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find key sources of information located via an understanding of how to search the “deep web."

FindArticles

BNET's tool for finding articles on business, reference, technology, news and lifestyle.

How Stuff Works

Simple explanations on a broad range of topics.

JSTOR

Search scholarly journals on-line. Regrettably, to actually read the journal, one must either be affiliated with a library or purchase the piece.

Librarians’ Internet Index

A tremendous index of sites organized by category, and a great resource for serious internet research.

My Corporate Resource

This site is s designed to provide the latest in legal and commercial information from the world’s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. This site aggregates, reviews, sorts and summarizes this content--for free--resulting in an excellent resource.

RefDesk

This tremendous resource is a one-stop-shop for practically every Web user. It is often used by journalists for fact checking and should definitely be considered for inclusion in everyone’s “Favorites” menu.


 

Judge & Lawyer Researchqdw

American Lawyer

The American Lawyer specializes on BigFirm practice and information.

Courthouse Forum

A platform for the open and candid evaluation and discussion of cases, courts, the judiciary, and legal issues. Good place to begin research on judges.

Martindale Hubble

Traditional lawyer rating reference.

Robing Room

"Where judges are judged." Good place to begin research on judges.


 

Google

Google

Google is the go-to search engine for most people. Indeed, its search algorithm based on the number of links to sites is very sophisticated. Most people don’t know, however, that Google is also a calculator. Type in, “5+50=” for example, and Google recognizes you are asking it a math problem. Use the asterisk (*) for multiplication and the slash (/) to divide. Google can also do square roots, logarithmic functions, exponentiation, factorials, and more. You can enter “how many feet in a meter?” or find “how many inches in a mile?”

You can also type in the name of a person or business and city and state or zip code, and Google will give you an address and phone number. Type in an area code and number, and it acts as a reverse phonebook, giving the name and address of the person or entity associated with the number and even a map. Type “define: holiday” for the answer (good, as in this case, when seeking a common word’s meaning as a term of art). Type in the tracking number of a FedEx, UPS, or U.S. Postal Service delivery, and it will link you to the page about your package. Don’t forget to include quotation marks to eliminate pages that just contain one of the words or another, and include small words like “a,” “and,” and “the.” Use a minus or plus sign to weed out irrelevant pages. Use wildcards (*) or (?) for unknown words. Also, try asking the question in the form of an answer, i.e. “Zubulake is*.”

Giga Alert

Formerly known as Google Alert, this is a leading solution for monitoring professional interests online. Track the entire web for specified topics and receive new results by daily email.

Google News Alert

Sign up, and Google News Alert will send you an email alert when one of your search criteria is in the news.

Google Scholar

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, U.S. federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1791. In addition, it includes citations for cases cited by indexed opinions or journal articles which allows you to find influential cases (usually older or international) which are not yet online or publicly available. Google does not warrant that the information is complete or accurate.

Google Translate

Cut and paste in paragraphs of text for quick translations to and from many languages.

Google Language

Type a search phrase in your own language to easily find pages in another language. Google translates the results for you to read. Also translates text and web pages.

Google Blog

Google Books

Google Earth

Google Maps


 
People Finders

AnyWho

AT&T’s online directory has a reverse directory and international section. With reverse directories attorneys can look up numbers of subpoenaed phone records to determine who a witness has been calling. No cell-phone numbers however.

Criminal Searches

"Do you really know who people are?" Criminal Searches offers free criminal searches, complete with mug shots and addresses.

Department of Commerce: Denied Persons List

You may not engage in export or reexport transactions with persons on this list.

Find People

This is a resource with links to sites that find people, conduct background checks, etc., mostly for fees of around $5–20.

Infobel

A portal for international phone directory searching.

Langenberg

People and email searches over multiple engines and social-networking sites.

Search Systems

Sells access to public records from around the country. PC World calls it "one of the oldest and most reliable of these companies." Find marriage records, death records, businss permits, property records for a $5 monthly fee, or use the "premium" service for bankruptcy and criminal records.

Switchboard

An Internet Yellow Pages.

White Pages

Billing itself as “the first name in directory assistance,” this site includes a reverse phone number and address engine.


 

Copernic

Copernic is a great meta search engine that will search a number of other search engines. Download the free version of Copernic Agent and use it for important Web searches.

Dogpile

Dogpile is another meta search engine. Unlike Copernic, there is no need to download the interface. It will also provide audio and multimedia files that Google alone, for example, will not.

Vivismo

This search engine clusters results by category.

QuestLaw

Law.com's free search tool searches an editorially selected sphere of content in addition to its own content.

LexisWeb

Lexis's free search tool searches legal-oriented sites so that users "can trust that all content has met LexisNexis criteria for being authoritative and accurate."

PhilB

Phil Bradley, “Internet Consultant,” runs this interesting site devoted to “making search easier for everyone!” His site includes good information on different search engines and comparative charts.

TuneFind

Search for songs heard on TV or in the movies.

Tickex

Find and purchase tickets for concerts, sporting events, and theaters from numerous providers.

WhatsOpen

Search cities and neighborhoods for local businesses' hours of operation.

Quotiki

Find or share a clever quote on this social networking wiki.


 

Fotoila

Low-cost and royalty-free stock photographs for use in presentations.

Indezine

PowerPoint corrupts absolutely, and this is an excellent place to begin.

Maps

This site has digital maps for sale and for free, which can be useful when needed for court papers or PowerPoint presentations.

Microsoft Office Resources

Microsoft's resource offers thousands of free clipart, photographs, animations, and audio clips for downloading.

OneTrueMedia

Lets you create videos from photographs, and incorporate text and music. The poor lawyer's day-in-the-life production company.

PowerPoint Maps

Purchase maps for use in presentations.

Presenters OnLine

A site devoted to multimedia presentation knowledge.

Presenters University

Free templates and articles on the art and science of PowerPoint.

Technology In Court Presentation [ppt]

Download courtroom technology presentation for personal use only.

TrialMax

Download FTI's free TrialMax program which, like Trial Director and Sanction II, is a trial presentation program that allows lawyers to bring up and highlight all forms of digital evidence before the finder of fact.

Webcasting Academy

Information on the fundamentals and best practices of webcasting to support your business objectives.


 

Google News

Remember that for important research on issues in the news, a Google search alone will miss news stories that will come up by searching Google News.

Topix

This site is useful for following local news in your or other cities. “Your town. Your news. Your take.”

Newspaper Front Pages

Headlines from local newspapers around the country.


 

Law Blogs

Above The Law

A legal tabloid.

Aronfeld BlogSpot

Miami's PI lawyer provides the scoop on the selection, settlement and trial of personal injury and medical malpractice cases, and discusses the life and times of a trial lawyer.

Bankruptcy Blog Exchange

All the bankruptcy blogs in one convenient location.

Becker-Posner Blog

Nobel laureate and University of Chicago professor Gary Becker and 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner provide their view on law and economics.

Bitter Lawyer

Entertainment, career advice, humor and video for lawyers.

BLAWG

Source for legal blogs, news feeds and podcasts.

Capital Comment Blog

Your guide to the region's top events, mixed with some commentary about life, media, gossip and politics in Washington, DC.

Computer Forensics Digest

A legal resource for attorneys, law enforcement, and the public.

Constitutional Law Prof Blog

Edited by law professors.

DealBook

The New York Times excellent M&A and finance blog edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Drug and Device Law

Blog on the defense of pharmaceutical and medical device product-liability litigation.

E-Discovery Law

K&LGates' well-known e-discovery blog and resource.

E-Discovery Team

Writer, lawyer and educator, Ralph Losey's blog on e-discovery issues.

Election Law Blog

Loyola Law School (LA) professor Rick Hanson's blog on election law, campaign finance, legislation, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and the Supreme Court nomination process.

Energy Legal Blog

Your resource for updates and analysis on national and regional energy issues.

Ernie The Attorney

Hurricane bloger and solo practioner provides a view from New Orleans.

Legal Hold Blog

JD Journal

"Nothing but the truth."

Labor and Employment Law Blog

The purpose of this blog is to provide articles on labor and employment issues that involve federal labor and employment laws, and to be a resource for employers, human resource professionals, and labor relation's officers.

Law School Reports

University of Chicago law professor ranks law schools and provides info on academic job openings, law professor salaries, and law school news.

Plugged In Lawyer

Focusing on what lawyers can do with social media.

PropertyProf Blog

The Law Professor Blogs Network resident property professor.

Rainmaker Blog

Marketing and business development strategies.

SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court news with summaries and analysis of new opinions.

Sue

The magazine for women in litigation. Okay, it's a magazine not a blog. So sue me.

Tax Policy Blog

The official WebLog of the Tax Foundation, a non-partisan, non-profit research organization that has monitored tax policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937.

TaxProf Blog

Intersection of taxation and scholarship.

Technolawyer Blog

"All the legal technology and practice management news that's fit to blog."

Trial Practice Blog

The trial practice tips weblog from Illinios and Missouri lawyer Evan Schaeffe.

Trial Lawyer Tips Blog

Tips from trial lawyers.

WSJ Law Blog

Wall Street Journal's excellent law blog.


Law and Technology

Adobe Acrobat Users

Keep up with the changes to Acrobat, including editing and 3D PDF features.

Alexa

"The Web Information Company." Excellent information on top sites based on traffic.

Computer Forensics Digest

A legal resource for attorneys, law enforcement, and the public.

E-Discovery Team

Writer, lawyer and educator, Ralph Losey's blog on e-discovery issues.

Future Lawyer

Future technology for the lawyer of today.

Law.com Tech Center

News, articles, white papers and other information on legal technology.

Legal Technology Blog

Technology information, news, and analysis.

Law Technology News

The periodical's on-line presence with full content from each month's issue.

LegalTech Show

Information on LegalTech including videos of recent keynotes and programs.

Mac Lawyer

Using Macs in the practice of law.

Plugged In Lawyer

Focusing on what lawyers can do with social media.

Technolawyer Blog

"All the legal technology and practice management news that's fit to blog."


 

Off Topic

Crackberry

Bills itself as the number 1 site for Blackberry users (and abusers).

David Dadon Due Diligence Resource Center

An interesting array of public documents and information relating to one-time Hollywood movie producer David Dadon.

FailBlog

Humorous material on things that fail.

Global Language Monitor

Analyzes and tracks trends around the world with an emphasis on (or is it "upon" as the site says?) "Global English."

LifeHacker

Tips for living more efficiently.

National Debt Clock

Real-time tracking of U.S. national debt, financial meltdown, cost of war, social security, medicare/medicade, interest on debt, U.S. credit-card debt, population, unemployment, and private debt per citizen. Best to be informed.

PopSquire

Where popular culture and law collide.

Smoking Gun

Sometimes useful in finding original pleadings and court papers from high-profile cases . . . usually just an outlet for voyerism.

Tech-Recepies

Your cookbook of tech-tutorials.

Tip of the Day

A popular source of almost-daily technology tips from Miami attorney, Miguel de la O. TotD named us the "Best Legal Research Portal on the Internet," so you know it's good.

That's What She Said

Spotting the lawsuits in every episode of NBC's The Office and assigning litigation values for each.


 

Paralegal How To

"How to apply what you know to what you do."

The Paralegal

"News and trends for today's paralegal professional."

Practical Paralegalism

"A blog celebrating paralegals - and sharing a few cautionary tales."

Paralegalese

"Promoting, encouraging, and discussing the role of the paralegal through a daily dose of anectote."

Paralegal Pie

"Uncommonly good advice and cutting edge solutions for paralegals."

Paralegal Gateway

A weblog.

LexisNexis Paralegal Community

Designed to provide paralegals with the information and tools needed to succeed.

Paralegal Mentor

"Strategies for paralegals seeking excellence."

Estrin Report

"Created for professional paralegals -- not of a certain level, specialty or firm -- but of a particular attitude."

Know

A magazine for paralegals.

Legal Assistant Today

An independent news resource covering the paralegal profession.

National Federation of Paralegal Associations

"To promote a global presence for the paralegal profession and leadership in the legal community. "


 

Social Networking/File Sharingqdw

Digg

Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.

Facebook

Facebook is a privately owned social networking site enabling users to set up profiles, send messages, join networks, and indicate interests.

Flickr

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images.

Friendster

Friendster is a privately owned social networking website headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, and share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile. Friendster has over 90-million registered users and over 61-million unique visitors a month globally. The website receives approximately 19-billion page views per month, and is in the top-100 global website based on web traffic. Over 90% of Friendster's traffic comes from Asia, where Friendster has more monthly unique visitors than any other social network.

Hi5

Hi5 is a social-networking site claiming to have over 60-million users. Although U.S.-based, it is especially popular in Latin America.

Linkedin

Linkedin is a social-networking site with over 43-million members that is mainly used for professional networking.

List of Social Networking Websites

Use this list to research social networks popular with particular demographics and geographic areas.

MySpace

MySpace is a Social network service headquartered in Beverly Hills, California and owned indirectly by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to ComScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.

Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service(SMS) or external applications. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter. Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa Internet. A February 2009 Compete.com ranked Twitter as the third most used social network based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing Website headquartered in Calirornia and now owned by Google. The company uses Adobe Flash Video technology to displade a wide variety of searchable user-generated video content.

Zimbio

Zimbio is an online magazine publisher that allows users to build interactive "wikizines", or web magazines, on whatever topic they choose. The site commonly covers headlines in entertainment, style, current events, and more. Zimbio is one of the fastest growing community sites on the internet.


Top SitesTop Sites

CNET

CNET's top downloads.

MSN Money

MSN Money's 100 most useful Web sites.

PC Magazine

PC Magazine's top 100 Web sites of 2009.

PC World

PC World's 100 incredibly useful Web sites.

Time Magazine

Time's 50 best Websites of 2008.

Time Magazine

Time's 50 best Websites of 2009.

Top Web 2.0 Websites

The eBizMBA list of 15 largest Web 2.0 Websites.


TravelTravel

Air France

Book online, check flight status, information and services, FlyingBlue, business services.

American Airlines

Book travel, check in, travel information, special fairs and offers, information on AAdvantage and products.

Amtrack

Fees, schedules, fairs, reservations, routes, stations, deals, rewards.

Avis

Reserve a car, and find locations, deals, and services.

Delta Airlines

Book a trip, check in, check iteneraries, reservations, SkyMiles.

Contential Airlines

Check in, reservations, travel information, OnePass freequent flyer, products and services.

Expedia

Book discount travel online.

Hertz

Reserve a car, and find locations, special offers, vehicle guide and #1 Club info.

HotWire

Book discount travel online. You can choose the level of luxury you want, but it chooses the hotel.

OneBag

"The art and science of traelling light," for those who'd rather eat their own flesh than check luggage.

Kayak

This site "kayaks" all the travel sites on the Web to compare travel deals.

Priceline

Book discount travel online. "Name your own price for even deeper discounts."

SeatGuru

Figure out where the bulkheads, aisles, and exit rows are on that A-320 before booking.

Sixt

Europe's largest car rental company.

Southwest Airlines

Book a trip, check in, check iteneraries, reservations, Rapid Rewards.

TAM Airlines

Reservations, offers, Fidelidade program.

TripAdvisor

More than 20 million reviews of restaurants, hotels, cruises and other attractions.

WebFlyer

Excellent place to keep track of freequent flyer program offers, deals, promotions and changes.


 

Vendors qdw

Affinity Consulting

Anacomp

Applied Discovery

Credence Corp.

eMag Solutions

EMC2

Fios

FTI Consulting

Huron Consulting Group

H5

ILS Technologies

Integreon

KrollOnTrack

Navigant Consulting

NERA Economic Consulting

Peak Discovery

Premier Trial Exhibits

Stratify



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