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Selected Internet Sites of Potential Value to Bankruptcy Practitioners

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The Federal Courts

http://www.uscourts.gov United States Federal Judiciary (AO)

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html Federal Court Links

http://www.fjc.gov Federal Judicial Center

http://dol.state.vt.us Vermont Department of Libraries (Gateway to Supreme Court Decisions [VT and U.S.]) 

Sites about Legal Research on the Internet

http://www.abiworld.org ABI World - Premier Bankruptcy Site on the Web
[produced by the non-profit, non-partisan American Bankruptcy Institute, ABI World is home to a wealth of bankruptcy information, including daily bankruptcy news, statistics, legislative updates, and a resource for the general public inquiring about bankruptcy and its alternatives]

http://www.virtualchase.com The Virtual Chase
[maintained by Genie Tyburski, reasearch law librarian at Philadelphia's Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll; containing workshop materials, articles, and plenty of links, this is a well-organized and useful site about performing legal research on the Web]

http://www.usual.com The Practical Professer: Law and Business as Usual on the World Wide Web.
[maintained by Stephen T. Maher, director of attorney training at Shutts and Bowen; site contains lecture materials and links he uses in courses about the internet.]

Gateways to Law-Related Sites

http://www.findlaw.com Findlaw Internet Legal Resources
[link categories include legal subject area; professional development; laws; cases and codes; news and reference material; contains complete collection of U.S. Supreme Court cases, with links to cases cited in the opinions]

http://library.findlaw.com Findlaw Library
[contains more than 20,000 documents from government agencies, law firms, bar associations and legal publishers. Browse articles, newsletters, and books -- all organized under both topic and publisher to allow for straightforward navigation]

http://forms.lp.findlaw.com Findlaw Court Forms Site
[access over 8,000 forms from United states federal and state courts for free from one easy-to-use location. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms on topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All of the forms are available in PDF format and are searchable by adding new and revised forms.]

http://www.catalaw.com Catalaw: The Internet's Grand Central Legal Station
[the "catalog of catalogs of law on the ‘net", it is an index of legal and government web sites]

http://www.ilrg.com Internet Legal Resource Guide
["established to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession"]

http://www.lectlaw.com/ The 'Lectric Law Library (TM)
[tongue-in-check virtual law library for professionals and laypeople that even has a Reading Room for Judges]

http://www.hg.org Hieros Gamos
[sponsored by global association of 142 independent law firms; links to legal organizations, including governments worldwide, and over 200 practice areas; the "Government (U.S. Judicial)" practice area allows searches of selected databases for federal cases on the Internet]

http://www.counsel.com Counsel Connect
[online service for legal community; basic membership available to judges and government lawyers free of charge]

http://www.lawlinks.com/ Internet Legal Resource Center
[aspires to be "Internet's most comprehensive legal resource cite for both Attorneys and Consumers"]

http://www.lawsource.com/also American Law Sources Online!
[seeks to "provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all on-line sources of American law"]

http://www.lawreview.org/ University Law Review Project
[established by FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Journals; search law journals on the Internet; includes link to 15th edition of The Bluebook] 

http://www.bankruptcy-hq.com/ Bankruptcy HQ

Law Schools

http://www.law.cornell.edu/ Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute
[considered one of the pioneering sites for legal research on Web; includes recent and historic Supreme Court cases, U.S. Code, Fed. R. Evid., Fed. R. Civ. P.; contains links to other legal-related sites]

http://www.law.emory.edu Emory University's Law School
[Emory's Law Links includes the Federal Courts Finder, with links to online collections of federal court decisions, and an Electronic Reference Desk;  the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Federalist Papers can be accessed from the Library page]

http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/ Meta-index of U.S. Legal Research.
[Georgia State University Law School's compilation of search tools for federal court opinions, legislation, and people in the law]

http://www.law.indiana.edu/lib/ Indiana University's School of Law Library

Legislative Branch

http://www.access.gpo.gov U.S. Government Printing Office.
[GPO Access is the official site for dissemination of government documents- includes 1992-date Supreme Court decisions; Congressional Record; Code of Federal Regulations; Federal Register; U.S. Code; GAO Reports; GAO Comptroller General Opinions]

http://www.loc.gov/ Library of Congress

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

http://uscode.house.gov/ U.S. House of Representives Law Revision Counsel
[searchable U.S. code, from the office responsible of publishing it]

http://judiciary.house.gov/ House Judiciary Committee Homepage

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

http://judiciary.senate.gov/ Senate Judiciary Committee Homepage

http://www.gao.gov General Accounting Office 

Executive Branch

http://www.whitehouse.gov The White House
[includes links to other government agencies]

http://www.fedworld.gov FedWorld Information Network (Dept. of Commerce's National Technical Information Service)
["a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information"]

Associations & Non-profit Organizations

http://www.abiworld.org ABI World - Premier Bankruptcy Site on the Web
[produced by the non-profit, non-partisan American Bankruptcy Institute, ABI World is home to a wealth of bankruptcy information, including daily bankruptcy news, statistics, legislative updates, and a resource for the general public inquiring about bankruptcy and its alternatives]

http://www.adr.org American Arbitration Association

http://www.aallnet.org American Association of Law Libraries

http://www.abanet.org American Bar Association

http://www.aclu.org American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

http://www.innsofcourt.org American Inns of Court

http://www.ajs.org American Judicature Society

http://www.asil.org American Society of International Law.
[International Law Springboard and ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law contain descriptions and links to some of the most useful international laws resources on the Internet]

http://www.afda.org Association of Federal Defense Attorneys

http://www.alanet.org/ Association of Legal Administrators
[Management Gateway provides links to a wide variety of   management resources on the Internet]

http://www.atlanet.org Association of Trial Lawyers of America

http://www.eff.org The Electronic Frontier Foundation (civil liberties group)
[online archive includes legislation and regulations, censorship, privacy, cryptography, and surveillance]

http://www.fedbar.org Federal Bar Association (FBA)

http://www.fedjudge.org Federal Magistrate Judges Association (FMJA)
[includes Federal Courts Law Review, a new online law review published by the FMJA]

http://www.nacmnet.org/ National Association for Court Management

http://www.ncsconline.org/ National Center for State Courts
[links to state court sites; information on court technology, including Courtroom 21]

http://www.judges.org/ The National Judicial College (Reno, NV)

http://rand.org/icj/ RAND Institute for Civil Justice

http://www.sji.gov/ State Justice Institute

http://www.vitlink.org/ Vermont Interactive Television

Benefits

http://www.tsp.gov Thrift Savings Plan

http://www.hcfa.gov Health Care Financing Administration (Medicare)

http://www.ssa.gov Social Security Administration

http://www.opm.gov Office of Personnel Management
[includes information about FEHB, CSRS, and FERS] 

General Reference Works

http://www.refdesk.com My Virtual Reference Desk
["The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it;" this site takes Samuel Johnson's quote to heart, with comprehensive links to grammar and usage manuals, encyclopedias, thesauruses, and over 200 dictionaries; search for words in 215 dictionaries simultaneously using "One Look Dictionaries"]

http://www.ipl.org Internet Public Library
[from the University of Michigan, the "the first public library of the Internet"]

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu The On-Line Book Page
[Carnegie Mellon University directory providing links to over 6,000 books available free on the Internet; organized by author, title, and subject]

http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby Bartleby Library (Columbia University)
[easy to use digital library that includes Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Strunk's Elements of Style]

http://www.gutenberg.net/ Project Gutenberg
[contains accurate digital versions of over 1,100 literary works in the public domain, including the Complete Works of Shakespeare, the Bible, and Webster's Unabridged Dictionary] 

News

http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com American Law Media's Law News Network
[national dailey Internet newspaper for and about the legal profession form the publishers of the The American Lawyer and The National Law Review]

http://www.c-span.org C-SPAN
[includes week's activities in Congress; listen to live broadcasts with Real Audio plug-in software]

http://www.cnn.com CNN Interactive

http://www.npr.org National Public Radio

http://www.washingtonpost.com The Washington Post

http://www.nytimes.com The New York Times on the Web

Statistical Information

http://www.abiworld.org ABI World - Premier Bankruptcy Site on the Web
[produced by the non-profit, non-partisan American Bankruptcy Institute, ABI World is home to a wealth of bankruptcy information, including daily bankruptcy news, statistics, legislative updates, and a resource for the general public inquiring about bankruptcy and its alternatives]

http://www.fedstats.gov/ FedStats
[maintained by Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by the federal government]

http://www.census.gov U.S. Bureau of the Census
[social, demographic, and economic information]

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ U.S. Dept. of Justice Bureau of  Justice Statistics
[criminal justice statistics] 

People Finders

http://www.martindale.com Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator

http://lawyers.findlaw.com/ FindLaw Lawyer Directory

Travel

http://www.mapquest.com/ Mapquest
[maps and driving directions]

http://www.noaa.gov National Weather Service

http://travel.state.gov U.S. State Department Bureau of Consular Affairs
[extremely useful site for anyone traveling overseas, it includes travel warnings and advisories, passport and visa information, and links to U.S. Embassies around the world]

Other Interesting Sites

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/ U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup

www.fedex.com Federal Express
[track your package]

http://www.si.edu Smithsonian Institution

http://www.fss.gsa.gov GSA Federal Supply Service
[includes information on travel charge card program]