CYBERSLUTH’S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET

LAW RELATED SEARCHES ON THE INTERNET

- Justia’s Legal Web Search http://www.justia.com/ - programmed to search only

sites that contain legal information

- USA.gov - searches millions of web pages from all levels of the US Government:
federal, state, local, tribal, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.

- http://www.theblogsoflaw.com/ - A Comprehensive Index of Law-Related Blogs

(includes podcasts)

- Find Law for legal professionals http://lp.findlaw.com/

- LexisONE Community http://law.lexisnexis.com/webcenters/lexisone/

- CaseMaker - CaseMaker – library of legal research materials. No charge for

active SC Bar members. Includes state and federal law, SC Code, ethics
advisory
opinions, court rules, etc.

- The Public Library of Law - The Public Library of Law – largest free law libraries
(does NOT include federal district cases or federal bankruptcy case)

- FindACase – FindACase – includes US Supreme Court 1886 – present, Federal

Circuit Courts of Appeals, Federal District Courts, and State and D.C.
Appellate Courts.

DIRECTORIES TO FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT

INTERNET RESOURCES

- USA.gov - http://www.usa.gov/ - government’s official portal for searching

millions of federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governmental documents

- U.S. Government Printing Office - http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ - responsible for

disseminating documents produced by and for the federal government, has
searchable database for government publications

- (THOMAS) Library of Congress - http://thomas.loc.gov/ - statutory research,

includes detailed information about bills and bill’s legislative history

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- Cornell Law School’s LII - http://www.law.cornell.edu/ - useful academic site
because it offers searchable databases of the US Code, and Code of Federal
Regulations
- House of Representatives’ Office of the Law Revision Counsel -
http://uscode.house.gov/ - offers a print version and a free online version of the
US Code (ONLY THE PRINT VERSION IS THE “OFFICIAL” VERSION)

- GPO Access - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/executive.html - Executive Branch

Resources Page has three major types of information – 1) the regulatory process,
2) presidential document and 3) executive publications.

- Social Security Online - http://www.ssa.gov/regulations/ - Social Security

Program Rules Home Page. Includes, the law, the regulations and the rulings

- Federal Judicial Center - http://www.fjc.gov/ - education, history, and research

arm of the courts

- US Supreme Court - http://www.supremecourt.gov/ - decisions, dockets, briefs

- Oyez - http://www.oyez.org/ - access US Supreme Court written opinions back to

1792, the Court’s calendar back to 1981, over 5,000 hours of audio from 1981

- South Carolina Judicial Department - http://www.judicial.state.sc.us/- all things

SC courts

- National Center for State Courts - http://www.ncsc.org/ - links to all state courts

- State and Local Government on the Net - http://www.statelocalgov.net/ - provides

links to all state’s homes pages and to some local government pages

- State Statutory and Regulatory Law - http://www.whpgs.org/f.htm - access to all

states’ statutory codes, administrative codes, regulations, bills, constitutions, and
local ordinances

- National Association of Countries (NACO) -

http://www.naco.org/Pages/default.aspx - dedicated strictly to counties; includes
basic information for each county, such as demographics and government contact
information is provided

- FedStats - http://www.fedstats.gov/ - able to search the statistical databases of

more than 100 federal agencies

- Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/ - governmental statistical site

- CIA – The World Factbook - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-

factbook/ - provides information on the history, people, government, economy,

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 geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for
266 world entities

ISSUE SPECIFIC WEBSITES

- Advertising and Marketing Law - http://www.adlawbyrequest.com/ -

information, news and updates on legal and regulatory activities pertaining
to advertising and marketing (by the law firm of Reed Smith)

- American Bankruptcy Institute - ABI – unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues

- Class Action Litigation Information - Class Action Information - contains the

full text of the Federal Class Action Practice Manual – Internet Edition
and links to class action articles, legislation, and more

- Two big players in class action matters are Robbins Geller Rudman &
Dowd Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd (Enron (includes some
documents from case, etc.) and Millberg, LLP Millberg .
Websites contain additional information.

- Copyright Law - US Copyright Office - U.S. Copyright Office – department of

the Library of Congress, provides online access forms, regulations, and
laws relating to copyright. Includes a records search.

- Corporate Law- Delaware State Court - http://courts.delaware.gov/ - since many

corporations are incorporated in Delaware, this site might be helpful.
Contains keyword searchable database of opinions back to 2000.

- Criminal Law – FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice -

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/ provides links to international criminal
justice agencies, as well as information about drugs, alcohol, juvenile
delinquency and more.

- Association of Federal Defense Attorneys - http://afda.org/ - FREE

MEMBERSHIP FOR 2011 – brief banks, legislative updates,
online updates, research memos, articles, and research databases

- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) –

NACDL – general criminal law, mainly from a defense point of view

- The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) -

http://www.ndaa.org/ - general law from prosecutorial point of
view.
Need to be a member, but contains newsletters about new and pending
criminal legislation that are available for free.

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- Employment and Labor Law - Employment Law Information Network (ELIN)
http://www.elinfonet.com/ - includes articles, sample personnel policies, and
forms, links to employment laws.

- Findlaw’s Labor and Employment page - Findlaw/Labor Law – links to

articles, blogs, databases, websites, laws and government agencies
dealing with employment/labor law for both employer and the
employee

- HG’s Employment - http://www.hg.org/employ.html - has same links as

findlaw, and in addition, is strong in international and foreign labor
law links

- Yahoo! Labor Union - Directory of Labor Unions – links to U.S. and

foreign labor unions.

- Family Law – DivorceNet - http://www.divorcenet.com/ - family law

information for all fifty states, bulletin boards for posing family law
questions, blogs, articles, and referrals to attorneys and experts

- Cornell’s Divorce Law Overview - Cornell - Divorce – links to all fifty

states’ divorce laws and also links to uniform laws and recent
federal cases about divorce and related family law issues

- Foreign and International Law – University of Chicago’s Law Library Foreign

& International Law – University of Chicago / Foreign & International
Law offers links to laws, constitutional courts of foreign countries

- Law Library of Congress / Global Legal Information Network –

http://www.glin.gov/search.action - database of laws, judicial opinions,
and regulations of foreign countries and international organizations
- Forms

- University of Memphis – Government Publications - Forms from the Feds

http://www.memphis.edu/govpub/forms.php - downloadable
electronic forms that are requested by the public on a regular
basis

- The Internet Legal Resources Guide (ILRG) - http://www.ilrg.com/

- The ‘lectric Law Library http://www.lectlaw.com/

- IRS - http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html

- Federation of Tax Administrators’ - FTA Home Page

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- Insurance Law – Insure.com http://www.insure.com/articles/statesinsurance -
links to every state insurance department and to insurance news for each state

- Intellectual Property – U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -

http://www.uspto.gov/ - searches patent and trademark text and image databases

- American Intellectual Property Law Association -

http://www.aipla.org/Pages/default.aspx - is a legal association of
attorneys who deal with national and international property issues

- Legal Ethics – Cornell’s American Legal Ethics Library

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ - links to each state’s code of professional
responsibility, ethics opinions, disciplinary procedures, code of judicial conduct
and bar admissions rules

- American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility –

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility.html
posts Model Rules free online

- LegalEthics.com - http://www.legalethics.com/ - blog that contains brief

annotations about ethics issues, topics or for all topics

- Medical Malpractice Law – American Medical Association - http://www.ama-

assn.org/ - information on doctors

- Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors DocFinder

http://www.docboard.org/aim/ - searches physician license databases
sometimes discipline information is included, remember to also check out
the links to other states licensing boards

- National Library of Medicine - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ - medical

research, some results are citations only, while other could be full text,
audio or video, or images

- Real Estate Law – Cornell’s Lll’s Real Property Resources

http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/real_property - for links to statutes and cases
relating to real property law

- Securtities Law – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission -

http://www.sec.gov/ - has lots of information on securities law, litigation, and
regulations, also provides access to SEC company filings

- Standford’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

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 http://securities.stanford.edu/ - has dockets for over 2,000 class action
securities fraud matter filed since 1996, includes full text complaint, briefs
and orders

- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority -

http://www.finra.org/Investors/ToolsCalculators/BrokerCheck/- check out
your broker’s background

- Tax Law – IRS - http://www.irs.gov/

- TAXSites.com - http://www.taxsites.com/ - federal tax law, tax forms, and

Discussions

- United States Tax Court’s - http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/ -TC and

Memorandum Decisions (95 –present) and Summary Decisions (2001 –
present) are available, dockets are also online here

INVESTIGATIVE RESEARCH RESOURCES

- Search Systems http://publicrecords.searchsystems.net/index.php - Three Ways to

search 1) Jurisdiction – check list of public records available 2) Searching
Keywords, using the Public Record Locator (Advanced Search is an option for
more precise keyword seaching) 3) Browsing by Category p. 91 for more detailed
instructions

- Portico http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/ - links to publicly available

information and public records. Links are arranged topically, then jurisdictionally

- BRB Publications http://www.brbpub.com/default.asp - Has an extensive

collection of free links to numerous sources for locating public records

- Federal Elections Commission

http://www.fec.gov/finance/disclosure/norindsea.shtml - tracks federal political
campaign contributions of over $200. See Advanced Search for more searching
options.

- Domain Tools http://www.domaintools.com/ Better-Whois

http://www.betterwhois.com/ - Searches for Domain Registries

- Defense Manpower Data Center Military Verification database

https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/appj/scra/scraHome.do - trying to locate someone in
the military? You do need SSN or date of Birth. Results indicate only whether the
individual is or is not on active duty.

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- Criminal Background Information – Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Inmate Locator
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp - need first and last name

- American Medical Association – Doctor Finder https://extapps.ama-

assn.org/doctorfinder/home.jsp

- PAY FEATURE – DocInfo.org https://s1.fsmb.org/docinfo/ Search for

Disciplinary Actions about Medical Doctors, Osteopathic Physicians,
Physician Assistants in the US. Will answer: Disciplinary sanctions,
education, licensure history, medical specialty and location information.
Individual report costs around $9.95.

- U.S. Info Search.com – Social Security Validator

http://www.usinfosearch.com/free/ssn/verification/index.html

- FOIA Requests – USDOJ – Lists the principal FOIA Contacts at Federal

Agencies http://www.justice.gov/oip/04_1.html The National Freedom of
Information – provide links to individual state FOIA information
http://www.nfoic.org/states/

- Guidestar – Search database of 1.8 Million IRS-Recognized Nonprofits

http://www2.guidestar.org/Home.aspx

SEARCHING: ASSETS, PERSONAL PROPERTY

- Zillow.com http://www.zillow.com/ - Offers Real Estate Sale Prices, Current “For

Sale” Listings by gathering information from a variety of public records and
publically available sources.

- Aircraft Registration Inquiry – F.A.A. Registry Aircraft Registration Inquiry

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/ and Landings.com
http://www.landings.com/ - verify pilot certifications and to discover aircraft
ownership

- Boat Registration – US Coast Guard Vessel Documentation Center

http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/nvdc/ - can locate and buy abstracts of title for $25

- Intellectual Property – Patents - http://www.uspto.gov/ - search patents and

images Trademarks -http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?
f=tess&state=4002:vd6q8d.1.1 and CopyRights – US Copyrights Office -
http://www.copyright.gov/

- Searching Real-Time Filings and Other Company Information EDGAR: United

States Securities and Exchange Commission - http://www.sec.gov/

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- Search SC Bankruptcy Court via PACER - https://ecf.scb.uscourts.gov/

EXPERTS: FINDING AND VERIFYING

- JurisPro.com – Free Expert Witness Database http://www.jurispro.com/

- AlMexperts.com – Free Expert Witness Database

http://www.almexperts.com/home

- IDEX – PAY SITE – allows very detailed search functions, e.g. Similar Case
Search to find cases with similar fact patterns to your current case.
https://idex.lexisnexis.com/

- Expert4law.com – offers a keyword searchable directory of experts, private

Judges, consultants, researchers and more http://www.expert4law.org/

- Find an expert by searching a product directory at ThomasNet.com

http://www.thomasnet.com/. This is useful when you need to find an expert
knowledgeable about a specific product but you don’t know how manufactures it
or you are looking to locate an expert from a particular company’s rival.

- Finding Experts through Jury Verdict, Settlement, Case Law and Brief Bank
Websites – Morelaw.com – Provides a FREE Jury Verdicts and Settlements
Database http://www.morelaw.com/

- Jury Verdicts.com – Access to the site’s expert witness directory is free, however
it only lists names of experts culled from jury verdicts and an area of expertise
without contact information http://www.juryverdicts.com/

- HG.org (formally Hieros Gamos) http://www.hg.org/ - provides an expert witness

directory for free. Has foreign and international links.

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SITES FOR LAWYERS

- LawLink http://www.lawlink.com/

- A.B.A.’s Legally Minded http://www.legallyminded.com/default.aspx

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- Martindale-Hubbell Connected http://community.martindale.com/SignIn.aspx?
ReturnUrl=%2fthemes%2fgeneric%2fcommon%2fhome.aspx

LEGAL NEWS
- Law.com Law.com – has a partially free keyword search engine. Great for
Keeping up to date with the legal field.

- HG.org (formally Hieros Gamos) http://www.hg.org/ - provides an expert witness

directory for free. Has foreign and international links.

- LLRX.com – Law and Technology resources for legal professionals.

http://www.llrx.com/ Has articles and news items about emerging Internet issues
and lawyer-related technology. Includes a link to Court Rules (state and federal)
Forms (state and federal) and Dockets.

- Nolo.com http://www.nolo.com/ - includes a brief overview of selected practice

areas, which includes links to free articles, forms, software or books that are
available for purchase

- Visalaw.com Immigration Lawyer, Guide to U.S. Immigration law - a law firm

assisting with visas, green cards, naturalization, immigration law offices of
Siskind Susser, LLC – Law firm of Siskind Susser’s website. Lots of free
information on Immigration Law.

- LII/Legal Information Institute Cornell University Law School

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ - Several searchable databases all for FREE

MISC. RESEARCH
- WWW Virtual Library The WWW Virtual Library – Oldest Directory on the
internet. Provides links to sites that are considered to be the most useful in their
field of expertise. Some law related stuff, more non-law links.

- Librarians’ Internet Index Resources by Subject – Internet resources, organized

into 14 main topics and 300 related topics. Some law, more non-law links.

- RefDesk.com Fact Checker on the Internet http://www.refdesk.com/

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- LexisNexis InfoPro: Zimmerman’s Research Guide
http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmermans/ Its FREE to search. Annotated
subject guide that links to various Web Sites (free and pay), print resources, and
even specific libraries that have collections on the subject you are researching.
Legal and Non-Legal.

- BNET FindArticles - http://findarticles.com/ - searchable archive of millions of

published articles back to 1984 from thousands of academic, industry, and general
interest magazines.

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