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American Bankruptcy Institute
"The American Bankruptcy Institute offers daily bankruptcy news, bankruptcy statistics, legislative updates, information on how to find bankruptcy professionals, help filing for bankruptcy, and much more."

Bankruptcy Stats
"Bankruptcy Statistics, provided by the American Bankruptcy Institute at ABI World, provides the most up-to-date bankruptcy filings statistics available for all districts and states of the United States."

Internet Bankruptcy Library
"Worldwide Directory of Bankruptcy & Insolvency Professionals, On-Line Directory of Bankruptcy Clerks, Internet Discussion Groups and Mailing Lists."

Parent Fox Advertising Law Internet Page
"The site now offers a JavaScript Tour of the major areas of the site (requires use of a browser that is JavaScript compatible). This site is maintained by Lewis Rose, an advertising and marketing law partner with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn. Please be sure to visit our What's New page to stay on top of recent changes. We also would appreciate it if you would sign our Guestbook."

Lex Mercatoria
"An international | transnational commercial law & e-commerce infrastructure monitor."

International Trade Law Links Page
"Wasserman, Schneider, Babb & Reed was founded almost 30 years ago and has continually concentrated on assisting clients involved in the movement of merchandise, technology and personnel across international borders. The Firm has its offices in New York and works closely with a Paris based law firm. We concentrate our practice in international trade, customs and commercial law."

Uniform Commercial Code
"Copyright 1978, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 by The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; reproduced, published and distributed with the permission of the Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code for the limited purposes of study, teaching, and academic research."

Center for International Environmental Law
The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to bring the energy and experience of the U.S. public interest environmental movement to the critical task of strengthening and developing international and comparative environmental law, policy, and management around the world. CIEL's fifteen attorneys, five "of counsel", and two MBAs provide a full range of environmental legal assistance, including policy research and publishing, advice and advocacy, legal education and training, and institution building (see staff.)

Commission for Environmental Cooperation
"The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is an international organization whose members include Canada, Mexico and the United States. The CEC was created under the North American Agreement for Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts and promote the effective enforcement of environmental law. The Agreement complements the environmental provisions established in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)."

EcoNet's Environmental Directory
"EcoNet is the oldest and largest on-line resource for
environmental activists. EcoNet has news, action alerts, special features,
links and more."

EnviroLink Library
"The most comprehensive resource of environmental information available on the Internet. We've organized the EnviroLink Library to make information easier for you to access, interact with and use. Information is categorized by types of resources (organizations, publications, etc.) and environmental topics. Extensive searching tools exist to make finding the resources you want easier."

EnviroText
EnviroText is an on-line searchable library that provides you with easy access to environmental laws, regulations, and guidance as well as Native American Treaties and Constitutions. The purpose of EnviroText is to provide you with a "one-stop-shop" for all of your environmental regulatory needs.

GNET: Global Network of Environment & Technology
The Global Network of Environment & Technology (GNETŽ) contains information resources on environmental news, innovative environmental technologies, government environmental technology programs, contracting opportunities, market assessments, market information, current events and other material of interest to the environmental technology community.

Greenpeace/GlobeLaw
Globelaw aims at assisting practitioners in public and private international law, and includes material helpful to international litigators as well as academics, lawyers in public service, the NGO community and students interested in public and private international law and environmental law. It provides information, documents, links, support and acts as an exchange center for both international lawyers and environmental lawyers. The site is under development. The site contains much of the material formerly found at the Greenpeace International Multilateral Treaties site, which is also maintained by Duncan Currie, and which will in time be phased out in favor of this Globelaw site.

Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library
"Environmental Law from Pace Virtual Environmental Law Library Source of Legal Materials on the Environment. Pace University School of Law in White Plains, New York, USA, one of the world's leading environmental law programs offers primary legal reference material on the Internet."

California Estate Planning
Online information booklet that answers and addresses several issues such as; Avoiding Estate Tax on Life Insurance, Using Insurance to Pay Estate Tax, Gift Tax Issues, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Tax-Deferred Accounts & Heirs' Income Tax, Advanced Estate Planning Issues.

Charitable Remainder Trusts
"Extensive information on personal and business planning and litigation, asset protection and estate planning, (foreign and domestic), revocable trusts, irrevocable trusts, private annuities, charitable remainder trusts, privacy, security, foundations, charitable foundations."

Estate Planning Briefs from Nolo Press
"Look here for answers to your questions about planning for death, from writing a basic will to organ donation. Among the issues we cover are probate and the many ways to avoid it, methods for eliminating or reducing death taxes, funeral planning and choosing someone to handle your affairs if you can't. But first, a few articles that address some general concerns about planning your estate."

Estate Planning Links
"A comprehensive and compendious collection of Internet resources about estate planning, tax and elder law matters."

Estate Planning & Management at Fleet Financial
"Fleet offers a variety of IRA options designed to help you reach your retirement investment goals including Traditional, Roth, Rollover, and Education IRAs. You can find out more about how new tax laws have expanded the IRA options available to you by reading the New IRAs Mean New Flexibility article in our Explore & Discover section. We have also developed two IRA Calculators to help you decide which IRA alternative is better for you."

Estate Planning (Cornell) Law
"Estate planning is the process by which an individual or family arranges the transfer of assets in anticipation of death. An estate plan aims to preserve the maximum amount of wealth possible for the intended beneficiaries and often, as well, to retain considerable flexibility for the individual prior to death. A major concern for drafters of estate plans are Federal and state tax laws."

Family Limited Partnerships in Estate Planning
"Family Limited Partnership" is the common name for a limited partnership created primarily to shift ownership of assets, and sometimes some income, to family members...."

Fundamental Estate Planning Strategies
"Don't think of your belongings as an "estate?" Think again. Just because you may not have a multi-million dollar estate doesn't mean an estate plan won't protect the ones you love. Find out why you may not need an estate plan, but your family does."

Glossary of Estate Planning
"Estate planning is an important part of decision making in personal and business management, but it is an activity that most individuals participate in on only a few occasions during a lifetime. Like most specialized activities, estate planning has its own terminology. At times, limited familiarity with that terminology can be a barrier to communication between the typical citizen and his or her legal and tax advisers."

Is Your Estate Attorney Qualified? (Questions to Ask)
"Choosing an attorney is a very personal decision; as with a doctor or other professional, the advice and assistance you get depends on how well you communicate with the professional -- and that often depends on how comfortable you are when working with the professional. Every attorney should be willing to answer the following questions, without hesitation."

LifeNet: Estate Planning
Table of Contents: Estate Tax Calculator, Why do I need Estate Planning? Why do I need a Will? Types of Wills and Trusts, Avoiding Probate, Revocable Living Trusts or Inter-Vivos Trusts.

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
"NAELA, Inc. is a non-profit association which assists lawyers, bar organizations and others who work with older clients and their families. Established in 1987, the Academy provides a resource of information, education, networking and assistance to those who must deal with the many specialized issues involved with legal services to the elderly and disabled."

ProbateAttorneyList.com
"Complete List of U.S. Estate Planning, Probate and Trust Attorneys with Web Sites. Search by State."

Texas Wills, Trusts & Estates
"Although there has been much discussion recently about the advantages of avoiding probate and not relying on a will, in reality, for most Texans, a simple will that can be easily probated is far cheaper than the more complex forms of estate planning now being sold in our state."

What to Bring to Your First Meeting with Your Estate Planner
"You can save time and money by bringing a few documents to your first meeting with an estate-planning attorney. None of these documents are essential during the first meeting, but bringing them could save time and avoid misunderstandings. The following list is intended only to refresh your memory about documents which you may wish to bring to the meeting."

Code of Federal Regulations
"The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government."

LawGuru State Code & Cases
"Your (re)search ends here.... and it starts here too. Get free direct access to over 250+ legal search engines and tools from one convenient page. Search legal documents, directories, federal and state statutes, court cases and decisions, and much much more. Some of the search tools include: Advertising Law; Aviation Law; Patent Law; Immigration Law; Lawyer directories; Social Security; US Tax Codes; Legal Dictionary; Legal Maillists and Newsgorups. This page is provided courtesy of The Law Offices of Eslamboly & Barlavi, which maintains the LawGuru.com Site. Our firm handles sexual harassment cases, disability discrimination cases, personal injury cases, automobile accident cases and work injury (workers' compensation) cases."

Tax Library
Subscription Service. "Federal tax research; Current Internal Revenue Code, IRS regulations. Updated monthly. Contains annotated IRS publications and federal/state tax forms. Search tools help pinpoint documents quickly. E-mail notification when tax documents change. Personal Carrel feature allows you to save research, organize it, and add notes and comments."

U.S. Code
Legal Information Institute. "Established with a $250,000 multi-year startup grant from the National Center for Automated Information Research. A collaboration of Co-Directors and Co-Founders Peter W. Martin and Thomas R. Bruce. An activity of the Cornell Law School rather than an outside consulting or publishing enterprise or a multi-institution entity."

ABA LawLink
"The sites identified within LAWlink(tm) provide links to other legal research and information resources on the Internet. These sites are not endorsed or supported by the American Bar Association. This menu is not intended to be exhaustive and will be updated regularly as new sites appear."

All Law
Get your free email, yourname@legalemail.com. Looking for legal forms, legal experts, law schools, an attorney locator? Then visit this site.

CataLaw
"The catalog of catalogs of law. If you can't find it within two links of CataLaw... it doesn't exist."

FindLaw
Looks incredibly like yahoo, but it's not."Thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, law reviews, law schools, bar associations, law firms, experts, CLE courses, and much more."

Hieros Gamos
Includes: Law Journals Online, Legal white pages-yellow pages, 200 legal and government topics, as well as employment.

Lawyer Locator
"A fundamental resource in law libraries, law firm offices and corporate legal departments, the Law Directory consists of more than 900,000 lawyer and law firm listings. It is organized by city and state, country and province, with extensive cross-references, convenient color-coded sections, and valuable indexes to lawyers and law firms by area of practice and alphabetical listing. There are also special Canadian and International editions available."

Lawoffice.com
"Lawoffice.com helps businesses, professionals and consumers navigate through legal issues that affect their professional and personal lives. An extensive database of materials covers more than 400 legal topics ranging from business issues, such as commercial, taxation, bankruptcy, real estate and intellectual property law, to consumer-related issues, such as estate planning, health, family and employment law."

Intellectual Property
"Links to a unique collection of intellectual property resources served up by the Franklin Pierce Law Center (U.S. News & World Report - top ranked IP law school in the country three years running), as well as others on the Internet. It is intended to offer "one stop shopping" for intellectual property professionals in academia, business and science, as well as for inventors and entrepreneurs."

Cornell School of Law
"[This site aims] to connect the full resources of the school with the legal profession, with other law schools, with the world – outreach or publication goals quite similar to those underlying a good number of past and present law school activities. [This site aims] to carry out applied research on the use of digital information technology in the distribution of legal information, the delivery of legal education, and the practice of law. [This site aims]To carry out these activities in partnership with but not under the control or direction of such other key actors as law firms, bar associations, public law making and applying bodies, commercial publishers, and other academic institutions."

Office of the Law Revision Counsel
"The Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives prepares and publishes the United States Code pursuant to section 285b of title 2 of the Code. The Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. The Code does not include regulations issued by executive branch agencies, decisions of the Federal courts, treaties, or laws enacted by State or local governments. Regulations issued by executive branch agencies are available in the Code of Federal Regulations. Proposed and recently adopted regulations may be found in the Federal Register."

LawAid
"A database/directory of law related services. You can find a listed attorney by practice area, city, county, or zip code. We also list notaries, court reporters, expert witnesses, mediators, process servers, investigators, interpreters, jury consultants, courtroom graphic designers, law book publishers, legal software publishers, and other law related services."

LawRunner: A Legal Research Tool
"A feature of the Internet Legal Resource Guide, LawRunner provides for the use of pre-defined intelligent agents in conjunction with the world's leading Web index, AltaVista™, as well as select legal databases. A superior index of more than thirty million web pages found on 476,000 servers, AltaVista™ is accessed more than twenty-nine million times per weekday. Use LawRunner to limit searches to a particular jurisdiction, or to web sites with a particular domain suffix."

SEC Law.com
"The Online Guide to the Law of the Financial Markets. One of the Web's most popular legal sites, providing comprehensive and timely information on securities, commodities and corporate. A must read for investors and market professionals. Updated monthly."

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
"a product of the Robert Crown Law Library at Stanford Law School . This web page is one of a series of innovations by Stanford Law School designed to apply Internet technology to improve the practice, study, and teaching of the law. The Stanford Clearinghouse offers investors, the judiciary, policymakers, and the media a powerful new research tool that provides a deep and careful look into the workings of class action litigation."

American Pro Se Association
Just of some of their goals: "To enable a person, who is able to use a PC to do much of the leg work and save on attorney hours so as to be able to afford a reasonable defense and not lose by default for lack of funds to defend themselves. To improve the quality of pro se papers and to thereby help the courts deal better with the administration of justice. Enlightening the public as to alternative and lower cost options of dispute resolution -- such as arbitration and mediation."

AV Limited Publications
"Here are several publications to help protect your children's inheritance, plan for retirement, disability, or old age, and to secure your family's future. So take a few minutes and look over the books and kits provided, you will be amazed how little it takes to put your future on a solid footing."

Cafe Law
These articles should help you gain insight before speaking to an attorney in your state. Most use Florida law as an example, so remember, specifics vary state to state.Check out the Café Law Bookstore where information on all states and related and other topics is available.

Divorce Helpline
"What most lawyers won't tell you. Learn what the law is really about. What you can do for yourself is far superior to anything a lawyer can do. Learn how to reduce conflict, negotiate an agreement and stay out of court. Award-winning author, 25 years of proven success. All free!"

FreeAdvice.com
"FreeAdvice.com. The most comprehensive site for FREE legal advice and law information. Find answers to legal questions or search our Attorney Pages Directory for a local attorney to help you."

GoodLawyer.com/
"Gregory P. Brock is a sole practitioner active in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. He is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law. He earned a membership in Phi Beta Kappa while completing his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He has a general law practice, but is especially interested in intellectual property issues."

HALT-An Organization of Americans for Legal Reform
HALT, the nation's largest and oldest legal reform organization, is dedicated to the principle that all Americans should be able to handle their legal affairs simply, affordably and equitably.

Law Made Easy Press
"Your practical, educational and useful online resource for access to legal, tax, estate, and financial information. Our goal is to help educate you to best work with your lawyer and other professionals to save costs, and to obtain better service and results as an informed consumer."

LawInfo.com
"Find a lawyer, expert witness, court reporter and more at this great online legal portal."

Nolo Press
"We publish more than 150 titles--books, software, e-products, and legal forms. With over five million copies in print, our products have helped more people take care of their legal work than any lawyer or law firm in history!"

Pro Se Law Center
"Self-representation, when combined with the power of modern information technology can be an important means of providing increased access to the legal system. This web-site is designed as a resource center on self-representation in civil legal matters. Our purpose is to provide a collection of materials and resources that can be used to create legal service delivery systems that are based on the concept of "pro se" or "self" representation."

West Law
WestDoc is a document retrieval service of WestlawŽ, the online legal research service from West Group. WestDoc provides anyone with an Internet connection and a credit card or Westlaw subscription instant access to the extensive list of state and federal case law and statutes on Westlaw.

Feminist Majority Online
"The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social, political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives. The Feminist Majority Foundation Online features daily feminist news, action items and an extensive feminist Internet gateway to women-oriented sites on a variety of topics. Also find domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a feminist career center with searchable resumes and job listings, feminist research resources, information on women and girls in sports, and more."

Hastings Women's Law Journal
"Since 1989, the Hastings Women's Law Journal has provided a forum for voices outside the traditional scope of legal academic scholarship. We offer and maintain an inclusive space for feminism, race theory, multi-culturalism, animal rights, disability rights, language rights, international human rights, criminal defendants' rights and prisoners' rights, among others. HWLJ takes the road less traveled in regard to the law. This perspective embraces difference and celebrates diversity."

Women's Issues Links
"The businesswoman's Internet Directory, Gender-Related Electronic Forums, Nurse Advocate: Nurses & Workplace Violence, Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resources Sites."

WomensNet
"WomensNet supports women's organizations locally, nationally and worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work."

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