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General

Contracting and Organizations Research Initiative
http://cori.missouri.edu/

TechDeals (Findlaw)
http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/

Search Engines

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com/

Google
http://www.google.com/

Northern Light
http://www.northernlight.com/

Findlaw
http://www.findlaw.com/

Lawcrawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/

Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/

Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/

Hotbot
http://hotbot.lycos.com/

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/

State Administrative Materials

Ole Miss State Law Directory
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/law_lib_research/laws/STATElinks.html

State Agency Links (Indiana University)
http://www.contra.org/law/states.html

State and Federal Codes and Regs (From NASS)
http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html

State Gov & Legislative Information (Washburn U)
http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html#State Legislation

State Legal Materials (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Federal Administrative Materials

Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

Federal Bulletin Board (GPO)
http://fedbbs.access.gpo.gov./

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

Federal Register Documents on Public Inspection
http://www.archives.gov/

FedWorld Information Network
http://www.fedworld.gov/

State Case Law

Courts Net
http://www.courts.net/

FindLaw's Cases and Codes Page
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/

Ole Miss State Law Directory
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/law_lib_research/laws/STATElinks.html

State Court Directory (Piper Letter)
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

State Legal Materials (Cornell)
http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/states/listing.html

Federal Case Law

Courts Net
http://www.courts.net/

Emory University - U.S. Federal Courts Finder
http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

Federal Courts Administrative Office
http://www.uscourts.gov/

FindLaw's Cases and Codes Page
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/

FindLaw's Supreme Court Opinions Page
http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

U.S. Supreme Court (Official Home Page)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

U.S. Supreme Court - Opinions (Official USSCt Page)
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/opinions.html

U.S. Supreme Court Cases (Cornell)
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/#current

U.S. Supreme Court Cases E-Mail Update
http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/bulletins.html

United States District Court - District of Minnesota
http://www.mnd.uscourts.gov/

Company Information

10K Wizard (Key Word Searcher)
http://www.10kwizard.com/

Annual Report Gallery
http://www.reportgallery.com/

Annual Reports Index (IRIN)
http://www.irin.com/

AnyWho's Web Page Searcher
http://www.anywho.com/index.html

Company Lookup (Newspage)
http://www.hoovers.com/free/

Company Sleuth
http://www.companysleuth.com

Corporate Information International Metasearcher
http://www.corporateinformation.com/

Corporate Window - the information source
http://www.corporatewindow.com/

D&B CompaniesOnline Search
http://www.usembassy.be/trade/bususacom.htm

EdgarScan (Price Waterhouse)
http://members.aol.com/baccom/edgar.html

From Due Diligence to Corporate Intelligence
http://www.netforlawyers.com/article_company_research.htm

Guide to Company Information on the Web: 8 Step Guide
http://www.virtualchase.com/coinfo/index.htm

Guide to Locating Company Information on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/company.htm

Hoover's Online Company Info
http://www.hoovers.com/

Network Solutions Dot.Com Directory
http://www.dotcomdirectory.com/nsi/basic.hm

Northern Light Current News Search
http://www.northernlight.com/engine.html

NYSE Listed Companies Manual
http://www.nyse.com/listed/listed.html

PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/

Public Records Worldwide
http://www.searchsystems.net/

Quote.com Stocks Info
http://www.quote.com

SEC EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm

Yahoo! Stock Quotes
http://finance.yahoo.com/?u

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Acronym and abbreviation list
http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/acro.html

American Heritage Dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com/

American Slanguages (Foreign SLANGUAGES Too)
http://www.slanguage.com/index.html

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/bartlett

Bidirectional Translating Dictionary
http://www.rustran.com/

Bucknell University On-line Dictionaries Page
http://angli02.kgw.tu-berlin.de/call/webofdic/diction4.html

Computer Currents High-Tech Dictionary
http://www.currents.net/resources/dictionary/

Dictionaries
http://www.dictionary.com/Dir/Reference/Dictionaries/

Dictionary.com Resources For Other Languages
http://www.dictionary.com/others/

Encyclopedias on the Web
http://edis.win.tue.nl/encyclop.html

English to Latin Dictionary
http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl

EuroDicAutom Dictionary
http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller

Foreign Language Dictionaries on the Web
http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkantola/dict.html

Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia
http://www.funkandwagnalls.com/

German-English Dictionary (LEO)
http://dict.leo.org/

Good Quotes by Famous people
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html

Eclectic collection of sometimes off-beat quotes.

Index of Online Foreign Language Dictionaries
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
Table containing links to over 300 foreign language dictionaries.

Information Please: On-Line Dictionary, Internet Encyclopedia, & Almanac

Reference
http://www.infoplease.com/

LibrarySpot - Encyclopedias, maps, libraries and much more.
http://www.libraryspot.com/

Martindale's Reference Desk - Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Reference_1_Internet.html
Scroll down this Martindale "Reference Desk" page and click on "Dictionaries and Encyclopedias." Choose from dozens of online texts on topics that include biography, business, law, and quotations.

Martindale's Reference Desk - Language Dictionaries
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language.html
Select interactive foreign language dictionaries here, some of which offer pronunciation guides and graphics. Other language resources include multilingual dictionaries, international sign language and Braille, dictionaries of acronyms, anagrams, and antonyms, and guides to grammar and writing.

Merriam Webster Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm
Searchable Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

Multilanguage Dictionary (Logos)
http://www.logos.it/lang/transl_en.html

OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder
http://onelook.com/
Search 1,500,000 words in 223 dictionaries at one time from this site.

Online English to Italian to English Dictionary
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/ita.html

Oran's Legal Dictionary (West Group)
http://www.indlegal.com/search/diction.htm

Phrase Finder - Search High and Low
http://www.phrases.org.uk/

Quoteland - Search quotations and authors
http://www.quoteland.com

Reference Desk.com
http://www.refdesk.com/

Research-It! - One-stop reference desk
http://www.itools.com/research-it/

Roget's Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/

TechWeb Encyclopedia
http://techweb.com/encyclopedia/

The Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/

The Internet Go Multilanguage Dictionary
http://www.fiu.edu/~library/internet/subjects/languages/translat.html

What's The Meaning of This?
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/meanings.htm

whatis.com Computer Dictionary
http://www.whatis.com/

Your Dictionary
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Legal Ethics

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/mrpc/mrpc_home.html

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility Home Page
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/home.html

ABA Recent Formal Ethics Opinions - Headnotes
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/ethicopinions.html

ABA/BNA Manual on Professional Conduct (Partial)

American Legal Ethics Library (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/

Code of Conduct for United States Judges
http://www2.law.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/foliocgi.exe/Judicial
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FindLaw's Ethics and Professional Responsibility
http://www.findlaw.com//01topics/14ethics/index.html

Legal Ethics Guide & Links (The Virtual Chase)
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/ethics.shtml

Legal Ethics Library (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/listing.html

Legal Ethics.Com: The Internet Ethics Site
http://www.legalethics.com/

LJ Extra's Professional Responsibility Page

National Organization of Bar Counsel
http://www.nobc.org/

Paralegals' Model Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and Guidelines for Enforcement
http://www.paralegals.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=359

Legal Forms

1040 Company - Tax Forms & Info
http://www.1040.com/

AllLaw Legal Forms
http://www.alllaw.com/forms/

Bankruptcy Forms (Official Court Site)
http://www.uscourts.gov/bankform/index.html

CataLaw's Legal Forms
http://www.catalaw.com/topics/Forms.shtml

Corporate Forms
http://www.uslegalforms.com/corporate.htm

Corporate Legal Forms
http://www.jefren.com/#Anchor

FindLaw's Forms
http://www.findlaw.com/16forms/index.html

Forms (Natl Paralegal Association)
http://www.paralegals.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1

Forms And Publications - IRS
http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/

Forms from the Feds (U of Memphis)
http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/forms.html

Forms Prescribed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/34forms/index.html

Hieros Gamos Legal Forms
http://www.hg.org/forms.html

ILRG Legal Forms Archive
http://www.ilrg.com/forms/

LawSmart Legal Forms
http://www.lawsmart.com/

Lectric Law Library Forms Page
http://www.lectlaw.com/forma.htm

Legal and Business Forms (Texas Law Librarians)

MSBA Forms Download
http://www.mnbar.org/forms.htm

New York State Court Forms
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/forms3.html

Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (U of Cincinnati)
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/index.html

Selected Forms Prescribed under the Securities Act of 1933
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/33forms/index.html

State of Minnesota Tax Forms
http://www.taxesindepth.com/state-taxes-Minnesota.html

TaxWeb: Federal & State Tax Forms
http://www.taxweb.com/taxforms.html

U.S. Legal Forms - All States and Federal
http://www.uslegalforms.com/

International Law

Canada Resources Online (From ALSO)
http://www.lawsource.com/also/

Chan Robles International Law metasite
http://www.chanrobles.com/legal2ab.htm

FindLaw's Index of Country Pages
http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/

FindLaw's International Law
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/24international/index.html

FindLaw's International Trade
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/25interntrade/index.html

Foreign/International Law Web (Washburn University)
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html

International Law Resources (Bologna)
http://www.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/ILMAIN.htm

National Law Center for Inter-American Trade, Online Latin American legal Database
http://www.natlaw.com/

Public International Law Guide (U W. Australia)
http://www.law-links.info/international.html

Treaties and international law (US House of Representatives Law Lib)
http://www.priweb.com/internetlawlib/89.htm

U.S. Information Agency
http://usinfo.state.gov/

World Law Resource List (Osaka)
http://www.socsciresearch.com/r10.html

State Law

Full-Text State Statutes & Legislative Materials (Prairie Net)
http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

Ole Miss State Law Directory
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/law_lib_research/laws/STATElinks.html

State Statutes by Topic
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statutes.html

Minnesota Department of Commerce
In 2007, several changes were made to Minneosta state mortgage lending laws. The Minnesota Department of Commerce has published FAQs related to these new laws:
http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/home.do?agency=Commerce

Federal Laws

Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

FedLaw
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm

THOMAS (Library Of Congress) : Federal Legislation
http://thomas.loc.gov/

United States Code (Cornell University)
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

United States Code (Official Version)
http://uscode.house.gov/

Legislative

Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/statutes.html

Current Status of U.S. Appropriations Bills
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/approp/app04.html

Federal Government Resources (U Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/

FedLaw
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm

Full-Text State Statutes & Legislative Materials (Prairie Net)
http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm

Hieros Gamos US State Materials
http://www.hg.org/usstates.html

Minnesota Bill Tracking
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legis.htm

Minnesota Government Directories
http://www.state.mn.us/dir/index.html#leg

Minnesota State Legislature
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/

Minnesota State Statutes and Session Laws
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/statutes.htm

MN State Constitution
http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/cco/rules/mncon/preamble.htm

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

Ole Miss State Law Directory
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/law_lib_research/laws/STATElinks.html

Sunsite (UNC) Library Govt Documents Guide
http://sunsite.unc.edu/govdocs.html

THOMAS (Library Of Congress) : Federal Legislation
http://thomas.loc.gov/

Thomas (Library of Congress) : Legislative Guide
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.html

U.S. House Of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

U.S. House of Representatives - Committee Office Services
http://www.house.gov/CommitteeWWW.html

U.S. Senate FTP Site
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/general/one_item_and_teasers/internetpolicy.htm

U.S. Senate Official Page
http://www.senate.gov/

Uniform Law Commission
http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulc.htm

Public Records

Search Systems, Inc.
http://www.searchsystems.net

The Virtual Chase: The People Chase II: Tapping Public Records for Personal Information;
A Guide (With Links) for Locating Public Records
http://www.virtualchase.com/people/public_records.html

U.S. Vital Records Information
http://vitalrec.com/index.html

Research Guides

Arizona Lawyer's Guide
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~jjfjr/

Attorney's Toolbox
http://www.macattorney.com/tools.html

Complete Internet Researcher (Genie Tyburski et al)
http://www.llrx.com/columns/dispute.htm

Evaluating Foreign and International Legal Databases on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/evaluating.htm

Evaluating Internet Research Sources
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm

Evaluating Legal Databases on the Internet (NYU)
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/evaluate.html

Evaluating Quality on the Net (Hope Tillman)
http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html

Government Resources on the Internet (Tyburski)
http://www.virtualchase.com/govdoc/

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

Guide To European Legal Databases
http://www.llrx.com/features/europe.htm

Guide to Legal Research (G. Tyburski)
http://www.virtualchase.com/legalresearcher/index.html

Infoworks' Internet Library for Librarians
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/

Internet International Law Resources (U Chicago)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/intlaw.html

Internet Skills and Strategies for the Legal Researcher: Index
http://www.virtualchase.com/legalresearcher/index.html

Legal Journals on the Web (USC)
http://lawweb.usc.edu/library/resources/journals.html

Legal Research Guide (U of San Diego Law School)
http://www.acusd.edu/lrc/guide.html

Legal Research Guides (Duke University Law Library)
http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/research_guide.html

Legal Research Guides (SMU Law School)
http://library.law.smu.edu/

Legal Research Using the Internet (U Chicago)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/mpoctalk.html

Librarians' Guide to Internet Site Evaluation (Berkeley)
http://lii.org/

Matrix by Max Slot
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~fprefect/matrix/

MN Legislative History Step by Step Guide
http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/leghist/histstep.asp

Quality of Web Info (Tyburski)
http://www.llrx.com/columns/quality.htm

Reference Desk.com
http://www.refdesk.com/

Search Engine Guide The Guide to Search Engines, Portals, and Directories
http://www.searchengineguide.com/

Search Engine Watch
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/

Securities Law Resources (Genie Tyburski)
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/securities.shtml

The Virtual Chase: A Research Site for Legal Professionals
http://www.virtualchase.com/

The Virtual Chase: Information Quality: A Checklist for Determining the Value of Information
http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/index.html

The Virtual Chase: The Annotated Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals
http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/index.shtml

UC Berkeley: Searching the Web
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Strategies.html

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

Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics Home page
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Census Bureau Economy-Wide Statistics
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/econ/www/widemenu.html

Census Bureau: State and Metropolitan Area Data Book - 5th Edition
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/

Consumer Information (Runzheimers)
http://www.runzheimer.com/consumer/html/consumerstart.htm

County and City Data Book
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html

Eldis Statistics Guide (U.K.)
http://nt1.ids.ac.uk/eldis/stats/stats.htm

Facts and Statistics Metasite
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/lkstati.htm

Fannie Mae Historical Net Yields
http://mortgage-x.com/general/indexes/rny.asp

Federal Court Statistics (Cornell)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/statistics.html

Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Financial Data Finder (Ohio State U)
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm

FreeDemographics
http://www.freedemographics.com/

How Much is That?
http://www.eh.net/hmit/

London InterBank Offering Rate (LIBOR)
http://www.hsh.com/indices/libor00s.html

Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/statab/unpubd/mortabs/gmwkiii.htm

Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/

Report: Judicial Business of the United States Courts 1997
http://www.uscourts.gov/judicial_business/contents.html

Selected Current and Historical Daily Rates (FRB NY)
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data.htm

SIC and NAICS Codes
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naicstab.htm

SIC Codes
http://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/sicsearch.html

SIC Searching Tools
http://www.census.gov/epcd/naics02/

Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html

U.S. OSHA
http://www.osha.gov/

What's a Dollar Worth? CPI Calculation Machine
http://www.sensato.com/1921/01cpi.htm

White House - Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html

White House - Social Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/ssbr.html

- Last Updated 03/15/06-