Our Members' Favorite Links......... ARBITRATION/MEDIATION
NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)
http://www.clicknsettle.com
One stop shopping for all of your dispute resolution needs.
DIRECTORIES
Any Who Reverse Telephone Number Search - Find Persons
www.anywho.com/rl.html
Ask Jeeves Home
http://www.askjeeves.com/
Directory of Legal Academia-Legal Information Institute
http://lii.law.cornell.edu/
Search engines and ranking systems identify the LII as the most linked to web resource in the field of law. Many sites recommend starting with the LII for law. The site features: the US Code, an organized compilation of current federal laws; and the collections of all recent opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court and New York State Court of Appeals. The site also provides easy-to-understand topical overviews of such areas as banking law and employment discrimination law and organized collections of links to sites offering court decisions, statutes, regulations and other legal materials.
Find a Lawyer/Attorney Resources-FindLaw (formerly West Legal Directories)
http://directory.findlaw.com/
FindLaw – Lawcrawler
http://www.lawcrawler.com/
Good search engine powered by Google.com
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Search/Lawyers.com
http://lawyers.martindale.com/Executable/Location.php3
SEARCH.com
http://search.cnet.com/
This uses a metasearch engine using more than 800 specialized engines from around the Web
Switchboard The Internet Directory - YellowPages – White Pages
http://www.switchboard.com/
The Ultimates
http://www.theultimates.com
Search resources from all over the net like phone books, email directories, and trip planners. But this isn't just another list of links - the form for each resource is integrated into the site, and Javascript copies the information from one blank to another so you can use everything out there with a minimum of time and effort.
Zip Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ziplookup/lookupmenu.htm
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Center for Law and Computers at Chicago-Kent College of Law/IIT (Lawyer Portal)
http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/lawyers.html
The Center has legal resources/research, online cases and courts, libraries and journals, and professional education including Building Businesses On The Web and Legal Aspects Of E-Commerce.
GPO Gate at University of California
http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/index.html
Among the growing list of titles available are the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, United States Code, Economic Indicators and GAO Reports.
WASHLAW WEB -- Washburn University School of Law
http://www.washlaw.edu/
Good research tool
ELDER LAW
SeniorLaw Home Page
http://www.seniorlaw.com/
Information about Elder Law, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and the rights of the elderly and disabled. Produced by Elder Law attorneys in New York and White Plains (Goldfarb & Abrandt).
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Employers, Employees & the Family and Medical Leave Act http://www.alcos.com/newsletters/advisor/eefm_act.htm
This site, from ALCOS (formerly The Allied Companies), produces imformative newsletters including this one.
Jobrights – articles on employment law rights
www.jobrights.ws
EXPERT WITNESSES
Expert Witness Network
http://www.witness.net/
Comprehensive guide linking attorneys and expert witnesses via the World Wide Web by using online technology to reduce the time and costs associated with locating the best expert for a case.
FAMILY LAW
American Academy of Matrimonial Law
www.aaml.org
Articles/ monographs on family law issues; issues of the Journal of the American Academy; links to family law resources.
Divorce Online
http://www.divorceonline.com/
Provides free articles and information on the financial, legal, psychological, real-estate, and other aspects of divorce. There is also a Professional Referral section to locate professional assistance near you.
GOVERNMENT – STATE OF CT
Stamford Tax Data Online
http://www.ci.stamford.ct.us/Tax/main.htm
Stamford Office of Assessment and Collection maintains this site which includes real estate assessment and tax data and personal property tax billing data.
GOVERNMENT – STATE OF NY
NY STATE
http://a.www.state.ny.us/
GOVERNMENT – STATE OF TX
GOVERNMENT – UNITED STATES
Consumer Product Safety Commission (U.S.)
http://www.cpsc.gov/
Dept. of Energy (DOE) –Office of Environment, Safety & Health - Technical Information Services
http://tis.eh.doe.gov/portal/home.htm
Federal Courts Finder
http://serv5.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/
Great interactive site from Emory Law Library
Federal Depository Library Gateways
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces004.html
The Gateway Project provides an interface to the U.S. Gov’t Printing Office (GPO) Access customized databases.
Federal Judicial Center Home Page
http://www.fjc.gov/
Educational and research agency for the Federal Courts.
Federal Judiciary Homepage News and information about the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/
A clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
First Gov – Your First Click to the US Government
http://www.firstgov.gov/
The only official U.S. Government portal to 47 million pages of government information, services, and online transactions; offers a powerful search engine that searches every word of every U.S. government document in a quarter of a second or less. FirstGov.gov also features a topical index, online transactions, links to state and local government, options to contact your government, and other tools so you don't have to know the name of the government agency to get the information you want anytime you want it.
Supreme and federal court opinions, federal statutes, etc.
www.megalaw.com
National Technical Information Service from the U.S. Dept. of Commerce
http://www.ntis.gov/
Scanned Originals of Early American Documents
State and Local Governments (Library of Congress)
http://lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress Legislative Information
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Bill Summary & Status, Bill Text, and Public Laws by Law Number; CONGRESSIONAL RECORD; Summaries of Congressional Historical Documents. Updated periodically.
Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (formerly the UCC 2B Guide)
http://www.ucitaonline.com/
United States House of Representatives - 106th Congress
http://www.house.gov/
White House, Welcome to the
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Note: Make sure you type “.gov” NOT “.net” or “.com”
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Delphion Intellectual Property Research
http://www.delphion.com/
Web-based IP research services (fee-based/subsricption)
LEGAL FORMS/DOCUMENTS
FIND FORMS
http://www.findforms.com/
Database of thousands of free legal forms
LEGAL RESEARCH
AllLaw.com
http://www.alllaw.com/
Pretty comprehensive legal search tool.
Center for Law and Computers at Chicago-Kent College of Law/IIT (Lawyer Portal)
http://www.kentlaw.edu/portals/lawyers.html
The Center has legal resources/research, online cases and courts, libraries and journals, and professional education including Building Businesses On The Web and Legal Aspects Of E-Commerce.
Delphion Intellectual Property Research
http://www.delphion.com/
Web-based IP research services (fee-based/subsricption)
Federal Judiciary Homepage News and information about the Federal Courts
http://www.uscourts.gov/
A clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.
WASHLAW WEB -- Washburn University School of Law
http://www.washlaw.edu/
Good research tool
World Wide Web Virtual Library—Law
http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/
A collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject.
MISCELLANEOUS
AIRBORNE-EXPRESS online airbill/shipment tracker
http://track.airborne.com/
Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature. This tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations and was the first new edition of John Bartlett’s corpus to be published after his death in 1905—the new editor, however, choosing more to supplement than revise the work of the first name in quotations.
HomeStore.com
http://www.homestore.com/
Comprehensive home-buyer’s website with information about real estate, mortgage loans, relocation, moving, van line, apartments and more.
NEWS/MEDIA
Court TV
http://www.courttv.com/
In addition to hyping its Cable TV channel, it provides resources and information, including legal search tools, case law (including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1893), legal news, real-time SEC filings, community discussion areas and online continuing legal education.
RealNetworks - The Home of Streaming Media
http://www.real.com/
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Academy of Matrimonial Law
www.aaml.org
Articles/ monographs on family law issues; issues of the Journal of the American Academy; links to family law resources.
QUI TAM
Qui Tam Information Center
http://www.quitam.com/
A place for whistleblowers and attorneys to gain information and help in pursuing qui tam actions –("one who sues on behalf of the king as well as for himself") is a provision of the Federal Civil False Claims Act that allows a private citizen to file a suit in the name of the U.S. Government charging fraud by government contractors and other entities who receive or use government funds, and share in any money recovered.
REAL ESTATE
Stamford Tax Data Online
http://www.ci.stamford.ct.us/Tax/main.htm
Stamford Office of Assessment and Collection maintains this site which includes real estate assessment and tax data and personal proepty tax billing data.
Today's Mortgage Information from HSH Associates
http://www.hsh.com/
TAX INFORMATION
Stamford Tax Data Online
http://www.ci.stamford.ct.us/Tax/main.htm
Stamford Office of Assessment and Collection maintains this site which includes real estate assessment and tax data and personal proepty tax billing data.
Taxpayers Against Fraud
http://www.taf.org/taf/
