Denton County, Texas - Guide for Lawyers

DivorceNet - Family Law Advisor

http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html

DocLawWeb

The Duhaime's Law Dictionary

http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary.aspx

E-Codes

http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html

Emory Law Library Federal Courts Finder

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS

Environmental Health Legislation Database

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/envhealth/cehdb.htm

Everybody’s Legal Glossary

http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm

The Expert’s Page

http://www.expertpages.com

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

Federal Court Locator

http://www.law.vill.edu/library/researchguides/fedcourtlocator.asp

The Federal Judiciary Homepage

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html

Federal Register Index

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Federal Web Locator

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html/

Federal Web Navigator

http://lawdbase.law.villanova.edu/fedweb/

FedWorld Information Network

http://www.fedworld.gov/

FindLaw
www.findlaw.com

FindLaw Alphabetical List of Journals
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals/fulllist.html

FindLaw Cases and Codes- US Circuit Courts

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/index.html

FindLaw Dictionary
http://dictionary.findlaw.com/

FindLaw Internet Legal Resources

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html

FindLaw List of Law Journals by Topic
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals

FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov

Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

Georgetown University Law Center- Legal Explorer

Glossary of Terms- Understanding the Federal Courts

http://www.access.gpo.gov

The Government Printing Office Site

Government Publications Library

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/index.htm

Government Resources on the Web

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/pp/healthpromo.cfm

GSU Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

Health Promotion State Legislation and Statutes Database

Hieros Gamos

http://www.hg.org

http://www.nass.org/acr/html/internet.html

Internet Access to Rules

ILRG (Internet Legal Research Group)
www.ilrg.com/

Law.com

http://www.law.com

LawLink from the American Bar Association

http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/

Law Moose

http://www.lawmoose.com/

Law News Network.com

Law on the Web

http://lawlib.slu.edu/library/

Law Probe

http://www.lawprobe.com

Legal Engine
http://www.legalengine.com/

Legal Information Institute

http://www.law.cornell.edu

legal.online - Legal Communications, Ltd.
http://www.legalonline.com

Lexis Nexis

http://www.lexisnexis.com

LexisONE

http://www.lexisone.com/

Library of Congress Guide to Law Online

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide

LoisLaw

http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html

Martindale Lawyer Locator

Law firm Directory from LexisNexis

Mayoral Election Results Database

http://www.usmayors.org/elections/

Meta-Index for Legal Research

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

Municipal Code Corporation

http://www.municode.com/

Municipal Codes

http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=help_siteindex

National Association of Counties

http://www.naco.org/

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/index.asp

RegScanLaw

http://www.regscan.com

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

Spam Laws

http://www.spamlaws.com

State Alcohol Law

http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/pathfinder/index.shtm

State and Local Governments

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html

State and Local Government on the Net

http://www.statelocalgov.net/

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 5^th Edition

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html

State Legislative Presence on the Internet

http://www.multistate.com/site.nsf/state?OpenPage

Stateline.org

http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action

State Resources Index

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html

State Web Locator

http://www.infoctr.edu/swl/

The Texas Bar.com

http://www.texasbar.com

Texas Legal Research Index
www.brandtlaw.com/lydia/table.html

Texas Legal Services Center
www.tlsc.org

Texas Sources of Information (Texas law Librarians)

http://www.weblocator.com

Texas State Government

http://www.texas.gov

THOMAS

http://thomas.loc.gov

Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

University Law Review Project
http://www.lawreview.org

VersusLaw

http://www.versuslaw.com

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

Weblocator Attorney Locator

Westlaw

http://www.westlaw.com

World Wide Web Virtual Library

http://vlib.org/Law

Zoning Ordinances

http://www.cyburbia.org/directory/index.php?t=sub_pages&cat=217

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Cost-Effective Sites and Services

Law Probe

http://www.lawprobe.com

LawProbe.com charges $40.00 per month per user for unlimited access. It offers discounts for prepayment: $30.00 per month with prepayment for six months ($180.00); and $25.00 per month with prepayment for one year ($300.00). With a LawProbe.com subscription, a user can use the service's collections of links to free web resources.

Lexis Nexis

http://www.lexisnexis.com

Lexis Nexis offers a special arrangement called MVP Advantage for Small Firms. Its flat rate plans are negotiated according the sources and services selected by each subscriber, and by the number of attorneys in the firm, but LEXIS also advertises pre-built packages. Some of these packages are practice-focused, such as the Litigation Law Flat-Rate Library. Others are jurisdiction-focused. The Flat-Rate Library includes various administrative materials, more legislative materials, and some public records files. No federal law is included until one reaches the Enhanced library. At that level, a subscriber has access to U.S. Supreme Court opinions, 9th Circuit District and Appeals Court, the U.S. Code Service, and U.S. Public Laws. Lexis does not publish the prices of pre-built packages.

LoisLaw

Loislaw.com offers various subscriptions at different prices that provide access to various combinations of its libraries. Loislaw.com publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. plus the 22 most important Federal law libraries. Loislaw.com uses flat rate pricing. A single concurrent user Internet license can be shared among multiple users. Three to five attorneys in a firm can share the same ID for just one monthly payment. There are no separate charges for online access, printing, downloading and linking to cites to other cases, statutes and regulations. The Loislaw.com's National Collection includes all 50 state law libraries and 22 federal law libraries, for $200.00 per month. Loislaw.com offers other subscription options with various combinations of state and federal materials. A single state collection is $79.00 per month. The State and Federal Collection combines your state and all Federal Circuits, plus the U.S. Reports, U.S. Code, Rules of the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Public Laws of the U.S. for $99.00 per month. The Federal Collection combines your state, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts, Federal District Courts, U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register and Federal Sentencing Guidelines for $150.00 per month.

Each Loislaw.com subscription includes use of its GlobalCite citation research service.

RegScanLaw

http://www.regscan.com

RegScanLaw offers flat rate pricing at $24.95 per month.

VersusLaw

http://www.versuslaw.com

VersusLaw charges a flat rate of $8.95 per month per attorney in the firm. VersusLaw's core customers are solo practitioners, small firms, appointed counsel, public defenders, indigent legal services providers, pro se litigants, attorneys providing pro bono services and the like. VersusLaw's coverage of federal cases is as follows: U.S. Supreme Court from 1900, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 10th Circuits from 1930, 9th Circuit from 1941, 11th Circuit from 1981, D.C. Circuit from 1950, and Federal Circuit from 1982; and selected federal district courts for a few recent years.

VersusLaw's coverage of state court opinions varies by state. Monthly charges for the USConline and CFRonline are $15 for one or $25 for both, while the annual rate is $180 for one or $300 for both. CFRupdate! costs $15 a month for each title being monitored.

Westlaw

http://www.westlaw.com

Westlaw offers a WestlawPRO subscription. WestlawPRO includes West's editorial enhancements like case synopses, headnotes, key numbers, annotations, cross references, and hyperlinks to related information, including instant links to materials outside the subscription that can be accessed on a case-by-case basis for additional charges. On condition that a subscriber makes a one-year commitment, the price is a flat rate of $195.00 per month or $2,340.00 per year. The one price provides unlimited access to the subscribed materials.

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Texas Sources

Texas Bar.com

http://www.texasbar.com

Texas Legal Research Index
www.brandtlaw.com/lydia/table.html

Texas Legal Services Center
www.tlsc.org

Texas Sources of Information

http://www.thebluesheet.com/

Texas State Government

http://www.texas.gov

The Blue Sheet

Texas Sources of Information (Texas Law Librarians)

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Federal Sources

AllLaw

http://www.alllaw.com/law/federal_law/case_law/

ALSO-American Law Sources Online

http://www.lawsource.com/also

DocLawWeb

http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html

Emory Law Library Federal Courts Finder

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html

The Federal Judiciary Homepage

Federal Register Index

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Federal Web Locator

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html

Federal Web Navigator

http://lawdbase.law.villanova.edu/fedweb/

FedWorld Information Network

http://www.fedworld.gov/

FindLaw Cases and Codes- US Circuit Courts

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/courts/index.html

FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov

Georgetown University Legal Explorer- Federal Court Opinions

Government Resources on the Web

Government Resources on the Web

GSU Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

Law.com

http://www.law.com

LawLink from the American Bar Association

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide

Legal Engine
http://www.legalengine.com/

lexisONE

http://www.lexisone.com/

Library of Congress Guide to Law Online

Meta-Index for Legal Research

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex

THOMAS

http://thomas.loc.gov

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Other State Sources

AllLaw.com

http://www.alllaw.com/

American Legal Publishing Online Library

http://www.amlegal.com/online_library.html

The Blue Sheet

http://www.thebluesheet.com/

The Center for Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx

E-Codes

http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html

Environmental Health Legislation Database
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/envhealth/cehdb.htm

Federal Court Locator

http://www.law.vill.edu/library/researchguides/fedcourtlocator.asp

Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

Government Resources on the Web

Health Promotion State Legislation and Statutes Database
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/pp/healthpromo.cfm

Internet Access to Rules
http://www.nass.org/acr/html/internet.html

ILRG (Internet Legal Research Group)
www.ilrg.com/

LawLink from the American Bar Association

LawMoose
http://www.lawmoose.com/

Legal Engine
http://www.legalengine.com/

lexisONE
http://www.lexisone.com/

LoisLaw

Mayoral Election Results Database
http://www.usmayors.org/elections/

Municipal Code Corporation
http://www.municode.com/

Municipal Codes
http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=help_siteindex

National Association of Counties
http://www.naco.org/

http://www.statelocalgov.net/

Spam Laws
http://www.spamlaws.com/

State Alcohol Law
http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/pathfinder/index.shtm

State and Local Government on the Net

State and Local Governments

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 5^th Edition

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html

State Legislative Presence on the Internet

http://www.multistate.com/site.nsf/state?OpenPage

Stateline.org
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action

State Resources Index
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html

State Web Locator
http://www.infoctr.edu/swl/

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

Zoning Ordinances

http://www.cyburbia.org/directory/index.php?t=sub_pages&cat=217

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Secondary Sources

Citation Manuals

Legal Encyclopedias

Legal Dictionaries

Legislative and Government Dictionaries

Law Journals, Reviews, and Newspapers

Legal Directories and Biographical Information

Topical Law Information Resources

Citation Manuals

Basic Legal Citation

http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation

Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/

Legal Encyclopedias

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/

The Cyberlaw Encyclopedia

Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/

http://www.bernsteinlaw.com/pubs.htm

Legal Dictionaries

1-L Dictionary-General Library Research Guides
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/

Bernsteins Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology

DivorceNet - Family Law Advisor

http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary.aspx

The Duhaime's Law Dictionary

Everybody’s Legal Glossary

http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm

FindLaw Dictionary
http://dictionary.findlaw.com/

Glossary of Terms - Understanding the Federal Courts

http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/glossary.htm

Legislative and Government Dictionaries

C-Span Congressional Glossary

Glossary of Terms- Understanding the Federal Courts

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/index.htm

Government Publications Library

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html

Law Journals, Reviews, and Newspapers

Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals

FindLaw Alphabetical List of Journals
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals/fulllist.html

FindLaw List of Law Journals by Topic
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals

Georgetown University Law Center- Legal Explorer

http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/

Law News Network.com

legal.online - Legal Communications, Ltd.
http://www.legalonline.com

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/index.asp

University Law Review Project
http://www.lawreview.org

University of Richmond School of Law

http://www.urich.edu

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

World Wide Web Virtual Library

http://vlib.org/Law

http://www.expertpages.com

Legal Directories and Biographical Information

Attorney Find - The World Wide Web Attorney Locator
http://www.attorneyfind.com

Attorney Finder

http://www.attyfind.com

The Expert’s Page

Martindale Lawyer Locator

http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html

Law firm Directory from LexisNexis

Weblocator Attorney Locator

http://www.weblocator.com

Topical Law Information Resources

DivorceNet - Family Law Advisor

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html

FindLaw Internet Legal Resources

Georgetown University Law Center- Legal Explorer

http://www.ll.georgetown.edu:80/lr/co/legpub.htm

Hieros Gamos

http://www.hg.org

Law on the Web

http://lawlib.slu.edu/library/

Legal Information Institute

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu

Alphabetical Listing Cost-Effective Sites Texas Sources Federal Sources

Other State Sources Secondary Sources Source Annotations Law Library Home

Source Annotations

1-L Dictionary-General Library Research Guides
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/

Harvard Law School provides these guides to general library research, research guides for summer associates, guides to selected e-resources, United States law research guides, and International, Foreign and Comparative law research guides.

AllLaw.com

http://www.alllaw.com/
AllLaw.com attempt provides resources compiled by legal topic and jurisdiction. In addition to providing brief annotations for topical sources, it enables searching select external resources.

ALSO-American Law Sources Online

http://www.lawsource.com/also

The ALSO Federal Government page provides a search engine for all of the Court of Appeals decisions and Bankruptcy Appellate Panel decisions. Searches can be conducted for one or all of the court databases.

American Legal Publishing Online Library

http://www.amlegal.com/online_library.htm
American Legal Publishing provides access to codes of ordinances for various cities and towns. The last ordinance for each municipal code is highlighted. Users can choose between framed and unframed versions, and are also able to browse or search the individual codes.

Attorney Find - The World Wide Web Attorney Locator
http://www.attorneyfind.com

This site allows users to search for lawyers and law firms by category of law or specific state.

Attorney Finder

http://www.attyfind.com

Attorney Finder helps users to locate lawyers nationwide. The directory is organized by geographic and practice area.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation

Basic Legal Citation

This site includes access to executive orders, proclamations and in-state citations for Arizona, Illinois, New Mexico, and Texas.

Bernstein’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology

http://www.bernsteinlaw.com/pubs.htm

This is a dictionary that defines the most common terms associated with bankruptcy.

The Blue Sheet

http://www.thebluesheet.com/
The Blue Sheet by Blue Sheet Publications, Inc., Texas, serves as a database containing jury verdicts, settlements, mediations and arbitrations for jurisdictions in Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

The Center for Public Integrity

http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx
This nonprofit organization conducts investigative research and reports on public policy issues in the United States and around the world. It offers a number of useful resources, including a guide to filing Freedom of Information requests, a database of political committees, a database of information about prosecutor misconduct, and a database of outside interests reported by state legislators. There is also news and commentary on a variety of issues.

Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html

This is a keyword-searchable database of tables of contents from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly publications. This listing of journals is comprised of titles received by the Tarlton Law Library for the previous three months.

Cornell Legal Research
http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/

This site is created by the law librarians at the Cornell Law Library. It is a compilation of United States and International legal resources in various formats. It is topical and jurisdictional with citations to research tools and direct links.

C-Span Congressional Glossary

http://www.c-span.org/guide/congress/glossary/glossary.htm

This glossary of congressional terms was created by C-Span. By clicking on a term the user will be able to see the term’s definition as well as whether it is used in the House, the Senate, or both.

The Cyberlaw Encyclopedia

http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/

This computer and information technology law reference source was created by Canadian lawyer Alan M. Gahtan. The site covers both the information technology and E-commerce law fields.

DivorceNet - Family Law Advisor

http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/doclawnew.html

This is an annotated divorce law dictionary that offers a nationwide listing of divorce lawyers, state-specific divorce information and a family law library.

DocLawWeb

DocLaw (a component of Washlaw) is a gateway to Federal Government internet resources and other government related material. It organizes documents by the following: Subject Index, Federal Agency Index, Federal Organizational Chart, Law Library's federal depository collection, and Document Displays Creative displays of government documents.

The Duhaime's Law Dictionary

http://www.duhaime.org/LegalDictionary.aspx

This dictionary is written in plain language and is free. Terms are accessed by clicking on the first letter of the term to be researched.

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS

E-Codes

http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html
General Code Publishers offers numerous municipal codes from cities and counties in the United States, most of which are in the northeastern part of the county.

Emory Law Library Federal Courts Finder

The Federal Courts Finder includes a color map of the circuits with links to available opinions of all the courts.

Environmental Health Legislation Database

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/envhealth/cehdb.htm
The National Conference of State Legislatures offers this database for finding legislation and current law on environmental health issues from all 50 states. Coverage extends back to 2000 and topics include indoor air quality, pesticides, lead, asbestos and others. Users may search by keyword for information about the state, bill number, sponsor, status, date of last action and description.

Everybody’s Legal Glossary
http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm

This glossary contains plain English definitions for hundreds of legal terms.

The Expert’s Page

http://www.expertpages.com

This page enables users to locate an expert witness or consultant. This service links attorneys, law firms and legal professionals to thousands of expert witnesses. The experts are searchable by subject area or name.

Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/

This site provides access to court opinions, rules and forms, calendars and dispositions, and court information.

Federal Court Locator

http://www.law.vill.edu/library/researchguides/fedcourtlocator.asp
This tool maintained by Villanova assists researchers looking for the opinions of the various state courts.

The Federal Judiciary Homepage

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html

This site provides links to all circuit courts and other federal courts. It serves as a source of information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Federal Register Index

The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. It is published by the Office of the Federal Register and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It is updated daily by 6 a.m. and is published Monday through Friday, with the exception of Federal holidays. GPO Access contains Federal Register volumes from 1994 to the present. Documents are available in Summary, PDF, ASCII text, or HTML format. HTML documents are available from 2000 forward and provide hypertext links to Web sites mentioned in the document.

Federal Web Locator

http://www.lib.auburn.edu/madd/docs/fedloc.html

This site is compiled by the Center for Information Law and Policy. It is a service that is intended to be an access point for federal government information on the World Wide Web. It is a comprehensive list of inks to other federal agency information sources from Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.

Federal Web Navigator

http://lawdbase.law.villanova.edu/fedweb/

The Federal Web Navigator includes over 800 links to Federal government agencies. Many of these links are annotated. Descriptions were gathered from the United States Government Manual and mission statements on agency web pages. Searches may be conducted by Agency name, Agency abbreviation, or by conducting a search by subject.

FedWorld Information Network

http://www.fedworld.gov/

The FedWorld.gov web site is a gateway to government information. This site is managed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and is designed to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information circulated by the Federal Government.

FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
This site has access to thousands of legal sites, cases, forms, law reviews, law schools, bars and associations, etc. for the general public, students, legal professionals, businesses, and corporate counsels. It is also the highest trafficked legal website. The site was started in 1996 by attorneys Timothy Stanley and Stacy Sten for a North California Law Librarians workshop. It provides full-text library of caselaw, and a variety of communication forums. Law Crawler (http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/) is a feature that conducts legal web and database searches.

FindLaw Alphabetical List of Journals
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals/fulllist.html

FindLaw Dictionary
http://dictionary.findlaw.com/

FindLaw Internet Legal Resources

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html

FindLaw List of Law Journals by Topic
http://www.findlaw.com/03journals

FirstGov
http://firstgov.gov

FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. Users may search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of which are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet.

Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
This guide points researchers to sources of full-text state laws and legislation on the Internet. It covers statutes, constitutions, session laws, legislation, and administrative regulations. It happens to include access to many non-authoritative sources.

Georgetown University Law Center- Legal Explorer

The Legal Explorer offers a map of the states covered by each circuit. Each of which is hypertext linked to each circuit court opinion site.

Glossary of Terms - Understanding the Federal Courts

http://www.access.gpo.gov

This is a glossary of legal terms by the Judicial Branch of the US Government.

The Government Printing Office Site

GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.

Government Publications Library

http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/index.htm

The Government Publications Library consists of over five million items including over 10,000 current serials. It collects publications from the United States government, state governments, foreign governments, and international governmental organizations.

GSU Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/
This site contains searchable legal indexes. It also offers links to judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and other resources.

Government Resources on the Web

This site is compiled by the University of Michigan. It provides links to Federal, Foreign, International, Local, Michigan State and Local, and State government web pages. There are class assignment materials and specialized materials available.

Health Promotion State Legislation and Statutes Database

http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/pp/healthpromo.cfm
The National Conference of State Legislatures provides this database for finding legislation and current law on health issues from all 50 states. The database covers newly introduced legislation and enacted laws during 2003. Topics include chronic disease, cigarette excise tax, food tax, nutrition, obesity, physical education, tobacco and more. Users can search by keyword or other criteria. The information provided includes the state, bill number, sponsor, status and description.

Hieros Gamos

http://www.hg.org

This site contains information about thousands of legal organizations divided into several directories: bar associations, associated services, dispute resolution, legal associations, vendors, legal education, government sites, online services, publishers, law firms, and law sites. The information in Hieros Gamos can be accessed by both search utilities and menus.

Internet Access to Rules

http://www.nass.org/acr/html/internet.html
The Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) offers this chart of sources of state administrative rules. Both primary and secondary sources can be found on this site.

ILRG (Internet Legal Research Group)
www.ilrg.com/
This site allows free access to more than 1750 legal forms that correspond with laws specific to each state. The site grants the user the ability to link to the 250 largest law firms in the United States. It is indexed according to topic: Legal Profession, Academia, Legal Research, and Attorney Referral Network.

Law.com

http://www.law.com

This sites provides links and annotations to sites about U.S. federal courts.

LawLink from the American Bar Association (ABA)

http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/

The ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public. It strives to provide users with the knowledge and tools they need to expand their careers. The LawLink feature contains a collection of links to legal research starting points. This feature is very selective, making web-based legal research more manageable.

LawMoose

http://www.lawmoose.com/

“LawMoose, by Pritchard Law Webs was designed for users seeking Minnesota or Wisconsin legal information It provides built-in search functions that help users find information including judicial bios, statutes, legislation, company information and more. Beginning, as well as advanced, searchers will appreciate the simplicity of finding information at this site. Features include the ability to retrieve information about certain Minnesota companies with a single click, a searchable index of articles from Minnesota legal journals, single click access to law-related Web sites by legal topic, and more.”

Law News Network.com

This site provides access to legal news and information.

Law on the Web

http://lawlib.slu.edu/library/

This page provides links to information on the United States law available on the Internet. Guides to international, foreign and comparative law are also available.

Law Probe

http://www.lawprobe.com

This is a fee-based service that has state and federal legal information, case law, statutes and constitutions, code of federal regulations, state regulations, rules, etc.

Legal Engine
http://www.legalengine.com/

"LegalEngine was developed as on online legal gateway that summarizes the most important state and federal law related links in a comprehensive and easy to navigate legal meta-search index. LegalEngine's use is completely free to the public at large. Users are able to search using various links such as: Courts and Caselaw links, Government, Legal Topics, Audio and Video Law, News Sources, Legal References, Cyberspace Resources, Law Student Resources, Online Forms, For the Public, Search Megapages, Attorney Resources, and LegalEngine Resources.”

http://www.law.cornell.edu

Legal Information Institute

This is a comprehensive site that combines archives of full text legal material with a well organized directory of links to other legal resources. It is well known for it US Supreme Court Decisions collection. The archives in this collection date back to 1990 and may be searched by party name or topic. The Legal Information Institute also features the US Code and US Constitution. The full text of the Cornell Review and the Journal of Online Law are found here as well. The organizational structure of the site makes locating online legal information easy. The menu allows researchers to choose law about a topic, law produced by a particular jurisdiction or source, or laws of a certain type. The site also includes a topical arrangement of state statutes.

legal.online - Legal Communications, Ltd.
http://www.legalonline.com

This search engine consists of over 20 portals that provide users with very specific search content and related resources, allowing visitors to utilize the Internet more effectively.

Lexis Nexis

http://www.lexisnexis.com

LexisNexis provides authoritative legal news, public records, and business information. This information consists of tax and regulatory publications in various formats. This service provides access to more than three billion documents from a variety of sources. It delivers high quality resources for the entire legal profession.

lexisONE

http://www.lexisone.com/
lexisONE offers free case law, legal forms, and a legal sites guide. Users are able to find selected federal and state cases covering the past five years, as well as a complete collection of U.S. Supreme Court opinions. Researchers may retrieve relevant decisions by citation or by keyword queries. The site contains numerous free legal documents and forms, an expanded Internet Legal Guide, and access to Matthew Bender forms and Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest for a small fee. This site also includes articles on law technology, client development and practice management topics, legal news, information on lifestyle issues, and lexisONE Wireless for access to all Lexis products and services. LexisONE provides research for small firms, access to the service's bookstore and online publications, a web site directory, headline legal news, a professional development center, a lawyer locator, and more. It is designed to meet the day-to-day practice needs solo and small-firm attorneys.

Library of Congress Guide to Law Online

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide

This is an online guide to law from around the world. It is annotated and explains the legal resources available on the Internet with hypertext links to those resources. The very selective guides are divided into types of materials and their legal subject areas.

LoisLaw

This fee-based service offers various subscriptions at different prices that provide access to various combinations of libraries. It provides access to over 10 million official law documents. It publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all fifty states and several federal law libraries.

http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html

Martindale Lawyer Locator

The Lawyer Locator can be used to find a lawyer by name, location/area, practice, firm, corporations, agencies of the US government, or law school faculty.

Law firm Directory from LexisNexis

This is the most trusted source for identifying lawyers. Lawyers can be searched by type, location, or firm name. Legal topics are also able to be researched by topic on this site.

Mayoral Election Results Database

http://www.usmayors.org/elections/
This site allows users to search or browse all 1999 and 2000 mayoral election results across the country.

Meta-Index for Legal Research

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex

This meta-index gathers search utilities from various websites. This enables users to process full text searches in a combination of online legal resources on those sites. Case law, legislation, regulations, or other types of resources can also be searched. The site also allows users to search US Supreme Court decisions at FindLaw, the Code of Federal Regulations at GPO Access, or the Congressional Record at the THOMAS site.

Municipal Code Corporation

http://www.municode.com/
Municipal Code Corporation publishes codified ordinances for many local governments. Its web site offers free access to Folio Infobases for more than 100 municipalities in the United States.

Municipal Codes

http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=help_siteindex
The Seattle Public Library offers this site as a finding aid for locating municipal codes. It provides individual links to codes that are not published by one of the five major publishers: American Legal Publishing, Book Publishing Company or LexisNexis Municipal Codes, General Code Publishers, Municipal Code Corporation, or Sterling Codifiers.

http://law.richmond.edu/jolt/index.asp

National Association of Counties

http://www.naco.org/

“The National Association of Counties (NACO) is a national organization that represents county governments in the United States, as well as offers resources for NACO members and the public on its Web site. Users can find topical legislative bulletins and fact sheets, articles, testimony, research reports and more. Special features include the NACO Code of Ethics for County Officials, a subject index to sample county codes and ordinances and county profiles that include the names and email addresses of elected officials.”

RegScanLaw

http://www.regscan.com

RegScan supplies the most current Internet updating service available, covering federal, state, and international regulations. Their data features and exclusive search and retrieval software add value to this service.

Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

The Richmond Journal of Law and Technology was the first law review to ever be published exclusively online. The Journal focuses on the impact that computer-related and other emerging technologies have on the law. The Journal is published entirely by students of the University of Richmond School of Law.

Spam Laws
http://www.spamlaws.com/

David E. Sorkin, a professor from John Marshall Law School, created this site to offer easy access to U.S. federal and state, and European Union and other country, laws regarding mass email. The site covers both enacted laws and proposed legislation.

http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/news/stategov/stategov.html

State Alcohol Law

http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/pathfinder/index.shtm
“The University of Minnesota's Alcohol Epidemiology Program provides this database of state alcohol legislation enacted since 1997. Summaries of legislation, as well as the full-text of enacted versions, are found here. This is not a state laws database. Content provided comes from StateNet, a well-known provider of state legislative information, and consists of the text of the law as enacted. A current reading of the law would encompass reviewing all enacted versions, including those passed prior to 1997. This is, however, a useful resource for comparing state legislation or initiating a review of a state law's legislative history. Also available at this site is commentary pertaining to policies that restrict youth access to alcohol, model alcohol control ordinances, an overview of state alcohol policies, an alcohol compliance check procedures manual, and a detailed research guide on finding information pertaining to alcohol law.”

State and Local Governments

This site has links to information about state and local governments in general, as well as individual states.

State and Local Government on the Net

http://www.statelocalgov.net/
This Piper Resources guide can be used to find state and local sources of government information.

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 5^th Edition

http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html

This State and Metropolitan Area Data Book is compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. It contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels. Selected data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan areas are also included. The Data Book is also a Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal Agencies, and private organizations.

State Legislative Presence on the Internet

http://www.multistate.com/site.nsf/state?OpenPage
MultiState Associates Inc. provides this chart of government-sponsored Web sites offering legislative information. Users can find a link to the state legislative site as well as information about the availability of full text bills, status information, and site functionality.

Stateline.org

http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action
Stateline.org is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. It provides news and commentary about a variety of state issues, such as crime, business, education, environment, health care, social policy, taxes, technology, transportation and security. The "issues" section is ocmprised of brief summaries of current news items with links to their original sources. Users may browse this section by topic or state. The "commentary" section contains longer articles written by professional news reporters. At this site, users will also find all of the nation’s governors' state of the state addresses from 2000 to present.

State Resources Index

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html
This site allows users to search state government sites with FindLaw's LawCrawler interface, which links directly to official state government Web pages.

State Web Locator

http://www.infoctr.edu/swl/
This site is compiled by the Center for Information Law and Policy. It is a service that is intended to be an access point for individual state information on the World Wide Web. It provides access to state home pages, documents, governments, and departments and agencies.

The Texas Bar.com

http://www.texasbar.com

This site, powered by Casemaker, provides statutes, session laws, Texas rules, the Texas constitution, 75 years of Texas cases, and Fifth Circuit cases to 1995. The site is fully searchable by keyword or citations. "Case check" lists all Texas cases citing the user's specific case. The browse feature shows titles of various codes available in Casemaker libraries. The thesaurus allows users to search synonyms of originally used search terms. Advanced search options include case sorting, which sorts results according to relevancy ranking or date in ascending or descending order; and case alerts, which mean that whenever a case is related to or matches pre-selected preferences, it appears on the page.

Texas Legal Research Index
www.brandtlaw.com/lydia/table.html
This site is organized alphabetically by section. Through it, site users are able to access Agency and Legislature Information, Codes, Statistics and Legislation, Legal Aids, a Legal Research Aid, and Business Information.

Texas Legal Services Center
www.tlsc.org
This site contains links to legal forms, Texas research for Legislature, Statutes, Administrative Code, all government departments, and courts for all jurisdictions in the state.

Texas Sources of Information (Texas Law Librarians)

This service has links to Texas legislature, judicial, governmental, and business information. It is divided into 6 sections: Agency and Legislative Information; Codes, Statutes, and Legislation; Decisions, Opinions, and Judicial Information; Legal aids; Legal Research Aids; and, Business Information.

Texas State Government

http://www.texas.gov

This site is intended to serve as the official compilation of Texas government electronic resources, both at the state and local levels, and as an index of Texas governmental or taxing authority web sites and services. The site is organized by subject to provide a collection of links and portals to allow citizens, visitors, businesses, state government, and others to quickly and efficiently locate appropriate resources.

THOMAS

http://thomas.loc.gov/

This site offers the following databases: House Floor this Week, House Floor Now, Quick Search of Text Bills, Bill Summary and Status, Public Laws by Number, Votes, The Congressional Record, and Committee Information. The bill text files are updated several times a day. The Congressional Record files are received once a day, when Congress is in session, usually in the morning. Committee reports arrive intermittently, after they are published by GPO, and are indexed when they arrive.

http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html

Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications

This is a guide for citing government publications from the University of Michigan that is separated into sub-categories.

University Law Review Project
http://www.lawreview.org

This site allows users to conduct full text searches of online law journals. Journals are categorized by topic.

VersusLaw

http://www.versuslaw.com

This is a fee-based legal research service offering federal and state court opinions. It also contains free links to Internet sources.

WashLaw-Washburn University School of Law
www.washlaw.edu
WashLawWeb provides users with links to all known law-related materials on the Internet. This site is comprehensive and well-organized. The information is arranged alphabetically, by subject, and by geographic location. Information is added on a daily basis. Washburn also hosts a large number of law-related discussion groups. Members of a discussion group have the ability to access the archives of those discussion groups.

Weblocator Attorney Locator

http://www.weblocator.com

Attorney Locator is a comprehensive listing of attorneys. This service has been assisting individuals and businesses in need of legal assistance by providing the names and profiles of attorneys to handle their legal issue for more than five years. Users may locate an attorney by clicking on a state on the map.

Westlaw

http://www.westlaw.com

Westlaw is West's online legal research service. It provides quick, easy access to West's collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information.

World Wide Web Virtual Library

http://vlib.org/Law

This site offers links to online legal resources through a series of categories. The categories are split into the major divisions of "Legal Information by Information Type" and "Search Tools." The site also offers links to legal resources in certain subject areas.

Zoning Ordinances

http://www.cyburbia.org/directory/index.php?t=sub_pages&cat=217
Cyburbia offers this extensive list of zoning codes on the Web.