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This site is designed to give you an overview of legal resources on the Internet. It does not try to duplicate the great links offered by many of the sites it references. No list of resources can be complete because legal sites are being added to the Internet every day.


University Law Sites


Cornell University

Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
The first legal information site on the Web and still one of the best legal sites on the Web. Especially well known for offering recent United States Supreme Court decisions, statutory and regulatory material and state law links. A wide variety of legal materials are available.  Sign up for e-mail notification of the latest United States Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals decisions.  Truly a law super site.

Villanova University

The Center for Information Law and Policy
http://www.law.vill.edu/
A joint offering of Villanova University School of Law and Chicago-Kent College of Law, this site features a federal and state courts locator from Villanova and a federal Web locator and state Web locator from Chicago-Kent.

Indiana University

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law
http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/index.html
Part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library Project.  

Emory University

U.S. Federal Courts Finder
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/
Nice graphical interface for locating federal court decisions on the Net.
Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/toc.html
Search the Net for Law of the United States and other nations.

Purdue Univeristy

Purdue's Government Printing Office Access on the Web
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/gpo/
Link to some Government Printing Office documents online that allows key word searches of some federal legislative materials.
Purdue's Virtual Library
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/vlibrary/index.html
The Virtual Library provides links to some Library Catalogues around the world and access to library related Internet resources as well.

Federal Information


FedWorld Home Page
http://www.fedworld.gov/
The United States Department of Commerce provides FedWorld to help people find United States government information. It provides a comprehensive central access point for locating and acquiring government information.
The Federal Web Locator
http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl
Chicago-Kent's federal Web locator site.
Government Information INFOMINE
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/
Government information access from the University of California.

Judicial Branch

Federal Judiciary Home Page
http://www.uscourts.gov/
The United States Judiciary's Home Page. "This page is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts."
U.S. Federal Courts Finder
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/
Emory's graphical federal courts finder, click on the map to find your link.
Court of Appeals links
http://www.ljextra.com/public/daily/coaall.html
The Law Journal Extra links to federal court opinions.

Executive Branch

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/cfr/
Code of Federal Regulations from the Government Printing Office with a front end from Cornell Law School.

Legislative Branch

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
http://thomas.loc.gov/
"In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the U.S. Congress through its Library." Legislative information and links to Internet sites where legislative information is available.
United States Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
The U.S Code online, from Cornell. Searchable and reviewable by Title.

State Information


U.S. High Courts - State and Federal
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/directory/overview.html
Cornell's links to court materials on the Net, state by state.
ERD - Law By Country - US States
http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/country/us/state/
Emory's state by state reference tool for law on the Web.
Know your Rights!
http://www.harbornet.com/rights/states.html
Links to State Constitutions and more.
Municipal and County Codes
http://www.municode.com
This is a great source of municipal and county codes from all over the country.

Private and Commercial Law Sites


FindLaw.com
http://www.findlaw.com/
A great legal portal that is growing all the time.
LegalEthics.com
http://www.legalethics.com
Premier legal ethics site on the web.
www.LawGuru.com
htt://www.lawguru.com
Site that features33131 legal research pages.
Legal dot Net - The Legal Network for Everyone
http://www.legal.net/
Another site offering legal information.
Internet Legal Resource Guide
http://www.ilrg.com/
This site is a "comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America."
The 'Lectric Law Library (tm)
http://www.lectlaw.com/
A major law site that reflects the personality of its creator.
Jeff Flax's Law Page
http://www.jflax.com/law.htm
An excellent selection of links to legal and medical sites with a very staightforward, easy to use interface.
CourtTV Home Page
http://www.courttv.com/
CourtTV's home page.
Nolo Home Page
http://www.nolo.com/INDEX.HTML
"America's leading source of self-help legal information."

Lawyer Locators


West Publishing: West's Legal Directory (WLD)
http://www.lawoffice.com/
West Publishing's legal directory, featuring home page offerings.
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html
Matindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator.

Personal Favorites


Business As Usual on the Web
http://www.usual.com/bip.htm
I created this site to help people more easily locate commonly used business information available on the Internet. It contains links to a zip code locator, e-mail directories, the package tracking pages of overnight delivery companies, corporate information, business travel information and other useful information available online.
The Practising Law Institute
http://www.pli.edu/
Innovative legal training available here, from interactive video on CD-ROM to audio and video CLE programs delivered over the Net. I wrote the Teacher's Notes on two of the CD-ROM lessons and work with PLI on training issues.

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