Selected Internet Sites of Potential Value to Bankruptcy Practitioners

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The Federal Courts
Sites about Legal Research on the Internet
Gateways to Law-Related Sites
Law Schools
Legislative Branch
Executive Branch
Associations & Non-profit Organizations
Benefits
General Reference Works
News
Statistical Information
People Finders
Travel
About the Internet
Other Interesting Sites

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.]

http://www.aallnet.org/products/crab/index.html The Complete Internet Researcher
[created for July 1997 AALL workshop]

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.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://lawlib.wuacc.edu Washburn University's Washlaw Web
[aspires to be comprehensive source of links to legal-related sites; mentioned frequently in articles on legal research on the Internet; hosts approximately 250 discussion groups]

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.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html Lyo's Law Lists
[provides numerous links to law-related Internet discussion groups, i.e., listservs and newsgroups]

http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/lawindex.html Indiana University's WWW Virtual Library: Law
[meta index with links to legal information by organization type and topic, as well as to search tools and other legal sites]

http://oyez.nwu.edu/ Oyez Oyez Oyez: A U.S. Supreme Court Database
[includes digital recordings of Supreme Court proceedings accessible with Real Audio plug-in software; links to Supreme Court cases since 1891 through Findlaw Project]

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://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html Library of Congress' Global Legal Information Network
[GLIN is an online database of laws from more than 35 countries; also includes Guide to Law Online, with descriptions and "links only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations"]

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

http://law.house.gov/ U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library

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

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

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

http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary 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.law.vill.edu/Fed-Agency/fedwebloc.html Federal Web Locator
[maintained by Villanova University's Center for Information Law and Policy, this site contains comprehensive links to federal government web sites]

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"]

http://www.financenet.gov/ Finance Net
[established by Vice President Gore's National Performance Review, it aspires to be "the Internet's home for public financial management worldwide"]

Associations & Non-profit Organizations

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.icsa.com/ International Computer Security Association.
[includes white papers on risk mangement. diaster recovery planning, and cell phone security; links to computer security related sites]

http://www.ncsa.com/ International Computer Security Association
[contains downloadable Managing Employee Internet Access Guide; links to computer security related sites]

http://www.ncsc.dni.us/nacm/nacm.htm National Association for Court Management

http://www.ncsc.dni.us/ncsc.htm 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://www.rand.org/centers/icj RAND Institute for Civil Justice

http://www.statejustice.org 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://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html 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.courttv.com Court TV Law Center

http://www.ljx.com Law Journal Extra!
[online law-related news by the publishers of The National Law Journal; contains directory of links, including by practice area]

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

http://www.pointcast.com PointCast
[24-hour desktop news service]

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

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

Search Engines and Finding Tools

http://www.zdnet.com/yil/content/roundups/net_search.html Yahoo Internet Life: Searching the Net
[links to information about search engines]

http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html My Search Engines
[from My Virtual Reference, links to 260 search engines by type and service]

http://www.altavista.digital.com Alta Vista

http://www.lawcrawler.com Findlaw

http://www.hotbot.com Hotbot

http://www.infoseek.com/ Infoseek

http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo Search Engine

http://www.deja.com Searchable Usenet Discussion Groups

http://ps.superb.net/FAQ/ FAQ Finder
[guide to FAQs, answers to frequently asked questions about a particular subject usually created and maintained by users with a passion for the subject]

Statistical Information

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://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu Government Information Sharing Project
[administered at Oregon State University Libraries, this site was created with Dept. of Education grant to improve access to electronic government statistical information; includes federal data on population, housing, agriculture, economics, and employment]

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://www.wld.com/wldc.htm West's Legal Directory

http://206.129.166.101/people.html Infospace
[lookup telephone numbers (white and yellow pages) and e-mail addresses; include reverse lookup]

http://www.555-1212.com/ Directory Assistance
[lookup telephone numbers (white and yellow pages), area code and country code information, e-mail addresses, and website locations]

http://www.whowhere.com Whowhere?

Travel

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

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

http://www.ultranet.com/~mes/biztrav.htm Stienberg Business Traveler Info Network
[includes links to major airlines, hotels, and car rental agencies]

www.flyaow.com Airlines on the Web
[contains links to nearly 500 airlines world-wide]

http://www.quickaid.com/airports Quickaid's Airport Directory
[links to airport information on ground transportation, airport hotels, ticket counter locations, on-screen terminal maps]

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]

http://www.quickaid.com/airports QuickAid's Airport Directory
[links to airport information on ground transportation, airport hotels, ticket counter locations, on-screen terminal maps]

http://www.idt.net/hotels/ The Federal Discount Lodging Directory
[provides comprehensive listing of discount government rates available at quality hotels in cities around the world]

http://www.all-hotels.com All Hotels on the Web
[links to independent hotels throughout the world]

http://www.hotelguide.com The Hotel Guide
[information about 60,000 hotels worldwide]

About the Internet

http://www.ebig.com/ Encyclopaedia Britannica Internet Guide
[links to Internet sites with descriptions and ratings; Computers and the Internet category includes links to useful guides about Internet basics]

http://www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Dlife/Habits/ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Surfers
[practical advice from C/NET: The Computer Network]

http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia TechWeb Tech Encyclopedia
[more than 11,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts]

http://everythingemail.net/ Everything E-Mail

Other Interesting Sites

http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml Today's Clock and Calendar Page
[links to almost every conceivable type of calendar, including religious, celestial, countdown, and world holiday calendars]

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]

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