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the content of the linked sites.
Court Sites
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Description
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| Lexis.com or Lexisone.com
Lexis/Nexis File and Serve |
Legal search engine. Lexisone.com is free, and has
cases from the highest courts in every jurisdiction for last 5
years. Registration necessary. Lexis-Nexis
File and Serve (or Courtlink) allows access to court files of subscribing
courts who have implemented electronic filing. |
| U.S. Supreme
Court and Federal Circuits |
Cases from 1990 to present |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fourth Circuit |
Cases from 1995 to present |
| Supreme Court of
Virginia and Virginia Court of Appeals |
Latest 18 months of cases |
| Maryland Court Cases |
Maryland Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals |
|
D.C. Court
of Appeals Opinions |
Availability on Internet as of about 9/9/99 |
| U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit |
D.C. Circuit opinions since 1995 |
| U.S. Court of
Federal Claims |
Has court rules, other materials |
| Other Federal Courts |
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| Pacer
Links |
Links to Pacer web sites where you can order federal court
docket sheets (requires account no. and password) |
| Courts.Net Home Page |
Directory listing courts across U.S., including Md., Va., and federal
courts, among others. Links to websites of Fed. Cir., D.C. Cir., 2d Cir., 4th Cir.,
5th Cir., 9th Cir., 10th Cir. |
| Federal
Judicial Center's judges directory |
A site where you can look up any federal judge's basic
CV. |
| Federal-State Court
Directory |
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| Prince George's County,
Maryland Judicial Site |
General Information, including where to park and judges' bios. |
| Montgomery County, Maryland
Judicial System |
General Information on Montgomery County courts. |
| Fairfax
County Circuit Court |
General information and civil court services online |
| U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia |
Some judges' opinions are available online. Must become a registered
user. |
| Other regional
courts |
Links to other regional courts |
|
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for
Maryland |
All court websites should be this useful. |
Legislative Materials
|
Description
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| Virginia Legislative Information
System |
Contains a searchable Va. Code, The Virginia Administrative Code, other
materials. Also includes a links page, which has links to every local government
site in Virginia. |
| U.S. Code |
Searchable by title and section or by table of contents |
| Code
of Federal Regulations |
Searchable by title, citation, or keyword |
| U.S. Congress |
Can get text of bills, public laws, congressional record, committee
reports |
| United
States Government Manual |
Guide to the three branches of the federal government |
| Maryland General Assembly Site |
Home page of Maryland General Assembly |
| Maryland
Manual |
A guide to the Maryland State government. Includes biographies of
Maryland state judges. |
Legal Newspapers and Journals
|
Description
|
| Washington Daily Law
Reporter |
Site under construction as of May, 2000. Has Judge's
bios, forms, court calendars, links. $$ for full access. |
| Virginia Lawyers Weekly |
Includes recent Virginia Supreme Court cases, links to Virginia sites and
law firm websites |
| Maryland Daily Record |
Limited free selection of recent articles |
|
Findlaw's Modern Practice |
Electronic magazine covering recent
caselaw and the practice of law |
| Law News Network |
Legal headlines from the National Law Journal and elsewhere |
| Legal
Journals on the Web |
Courtesy of the USC Law School and Law Library |
Regional Law School Sites
|
Description
|
| Georgetown University Law
Center |
Wide array of internet links, attractively organized, but takes some time
to drill down. |
| American University |
|
| Catholic University |
Useful links for internet research. |
| George Washington University |
Most notably, at this site you can find U.S. Court of Federal Claims On
Line (formerly Court of Claims), plus Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals info. |
| University of Virginia |
UVA internet services include links to scores of online databases,
covering science, psychology, and much more. |
| George Mason School of Law |
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|
Howard University Law School |
Library site |
| University of
Maryland |
|
| University of Baltimore |
|
| John Marshall School of
Law |
Extensive internet links put together by this Chicago law school |
| Washburn University (Kansas) |
A leader in online legal research. |
Regional Newspapers
|
Description
|
| Newslink |
Index of newspaper and other media sites |
| Newspapers Online |
Links to newspaper sites on WWW |
| The Washington Post |
|
| U.S.
Newspaper List |
|
| The Washington Times |
|
Bar Associations
|
Description
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| American Bar Association |
Full text articles, discussion groups, and more |
| D.C. Bar Association |
D.C.'s mandatory bar association. Includes D.C. Legal Ethics
Committee's Opinions, Abstracts and Summaries, among other things. |
Defense Lawyers' Associations
|
Description
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| Defense Research Institute |
Includes expert witness database, brief bank, articles, and more |
| Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys |
Publications available for VADA members only online. |
| International Association of Defense
Counsel |
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Insurance Sites
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Description
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| Federation of Insurance &
Corporate Counsel Quarterly |
|
Legal Directories
|
Description
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| Martindale Hubbell Lawyer
Search |
50-state directory of lawyers and law firms |
| The Legal Register |
The electronic version of the pocket-sized directory used
daily by Washington, DC lawyers |
| West's Legal Directory |
|
| Best's Directory of
Recommended Insurance Attorneys |
Comprehensive Listing of Insurance Attorneys and Independent Adjusters |
Legal Search Engines
|
Description
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| FindLaw |
|
| Lawguru Legal
Research Page |
|
| Keyword search
Internet --Washlaw |
|
| Center for Information Law and
Policy |
CILP has "locators", such as the federal court locator, the
state court locator, the federal web locator, the state web locator, and the tax law
locator, that point you to resources like court opinions and agency sites |
| GPO Access |
Searchable databases of executive and legislative material |
| Administrative Law |
|
| Counsel Quest |
Guide to legal resources on the Internet |
| Internet Legal Resource Guide |
A directory like Findlaw, which incorporates a search engine based on Alta
Vista. |
Continuing Legal Education Sites
|
Description
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| Practising Law Institute |
Information on every program and publication, online audio seminars |
| ALI-ABA |
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| MICPEL |
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| Virginia CLE |
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| CLE Online |
Presents CLE in the form of threaded, hypertext discussions backed up by
libraries. |
| ABA
Center for CLE |
|
Medical Research Sites
|
Description
|
| American Medical Association |
Collection of scientific and educational resources. Searchable
database of virtually every U.S. physician |
| Other
Physician Directories |
Links to other physician directories |
| Medical Schools |
Links to medical schools |
|
Medical texts and treatises |
Links to online medical texts and
treatises, as well as to medical bookstores |
| Medical
Journals |
Links to websites where medical journals
can be searched |
| National Institutes of Health |
|
| MedMark |
Medical Bookmarks |
|
MedLine Plus
Health Topics |
|
| More research links for research sources for medical
drug and device litigation |
These are sources recommended by the Drug, Device and Biotech Committee of
the IADC. |
| Links
to medical dictionaries |
From National Library of Medicine |
|
HealthWeb |
A collection of medical links maintained
by a consortium of 20 university libraries. HealthWeb is a
collaborative project of the health sciences libraries of the
Greater Midwest Region (GMR)
of the National Network of Libraries
of Medicine (NN/LM) and those of the
Committee for Institutional Cooperation. Currently there are over twenty
actively participating member libraries. |
|
National Electric Library for Health |
Maintained by U.K.'s National Health
Service. The National Electronic Library for Health
aims to provide clinicians with access to
the best current know-how and knowledge to support health care related
decisions. Also available is
NHS Direct Online provided
as the NHS's public
gateway health information. |
|
MedicineNet.Com |
Medical news site run by physicians for
consumers |
Expert Witnesses
|
Description
|
| FindLaw index of
experts |
Extensive index of expert witness websites |
| The Expert Pages |
|
| Technical Advisory Service for Attorneys
(TASA) |
|
| The Expert Witness Network |
|
|
Expert Resources, Inc. |
Expert witness registry; fees are built
into expert's rates |
|
Forensic Expert Witness --Free Referrals |
California-based expert referral service
-- it is possible to review most of the experts' CV's online |
Internet Issues
|
Description
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| LegalEthics.com |
Devoted to unique legal ethics issues raised by the internet, tracks and
publishes local ethics rulings on the subject |
| Richmond Journal of Law &
Technology |
Focuses on impact of computer-related and emerging technologies on the law |
| Domain Name Screening |
Screen domain names using Thomson & Thomson's domain name database (no
charge). Site also contains primers on trademark issues. |
