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Access by attorney name or State Bar number an attorney’s address, educational credentials and any disciplinary actions on record with the Bar.

Search the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory of listings of lawyers from around the world. Includes rating information.

        Search for law firms or lawyers by city, zip, state or by specialty of practice.

A public service, non-commercial guide cataloging over 1800 very useful consumer resources.

Extensive source of Federal Government information on consumer rights and rules of protection, where to go for help in all areas, from advertising to Y2K and many topics in-between. Obtain copies of pamphlets online.

This digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the laws that govern lawyers, organized state by state.

Directory of ethics sites categorized by states, government, legal and non-legal.

Includes information in Spanish, English, and Vietnamese.

List and links to publishers and current news in the legal publishing industry.

This site features articles explaining legal issues to lay persons and legal encyclopedia links.

A comprehensive legal web search engine. Includes links to U.S. and international sources.

Gateway site offers California specific sources in a directory format.

A categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites. A comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the U.S.A.

Searchable meta-index of judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulations, people in law, and other legal sources.

This site offers more than 250 pages of information about Internet resources and research strategies, designed especially for lawyers and other experienced legal researchers.

This site recognizes selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions. Also provides links to information on the patent and invention processes. A fun site for research.

Some free and some fee-based links to expert witnesses, medical experts, service providers, and experts by state.

This expert witnesses database includes links to attorneys, expert witnesses, investigators, court reporters, paralegal services, process servers, legal services, and more.

This site is an online directory of  process servers.  The searchable database covers metro areas  in the continental United States. It also includes foreign sites such as Puerto Rico, Canada, Australia and Mexico.

California's legal news source.

The Court TV site highlights the latest crime and justice news. 

Current news stories on legal information related topics. For law, technology and library related news and resources updated week days.

American Lawyer Media's latest legal news and analysis. Free daily legal newswire and analysis delivered to your email inbox.

http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html
Click on the State link of your choice for an index of topics, then choose your topic for a directory of internet sources.

State Bar activities, consumer information, and searchable text of California statutes and rules regulating law practice.

InfoPlease
Contents include the Information Please Almanacs, a biography database, "a leading dictionary," and the Columbia Encyclopedia online.

Basic Legal Citation

Internet Public Library

Librarians’ Index to the Internet
An annotated subject directory of many ready reference sources. Subscription to receive weekly updates on new web sites from all different subject areas, not just law related.

RefDesk

Duhaime’s Law Dictionary

International Law Dictionary

Merriam-Webster Online
Offers both a dictionary and thesaurus.

Nolo’s Shark Talk Dictionary
Plain-English definitions for hundreds of legal terms.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
Access encyclopedic entries as well as chosen web links on all topics found in the text version.

Encarta Online (Concise Encyclopedia)
Microsoft's concise encyclopedia which contains 4,500 articles.

Nolo’s Legal Encyclopedia
"This site has legal information in non-legal language in fifteen subject areas, including small business, employment, patent, copyright & trademark, mediation, parents & children, spouses & partners, seniors, wills, debt & credit, and real estate. In addition, there are annotated lists of recommended Internet resources related to each subject."

Perpetual Calendar
      

Quotations

The Quotations Page
Searchable database of a dozen quotation resources on the Internet.

MLA Style Guide
Citations format for various types of sources, including electronic and online resources. Links to other writing guides.

Hotbot

Ask Jeeves

Google

Lycos

Northernlight

Librarians’ Index to the Internet

Yahoo

Amtrak
Fares, schedules, routes, and arrival status.

Expedia Travel
Lot’s of travel information.

Mapquest
Obtain driving directions and estimated mileage to a destination.

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