Refdesk.com : A meta site of reference tools and resources.
Librarian’s Internet Index : Hosted by the Berkeley Digital Library SUNsite, a thorough index of useful resources, all evaluated by LII staff.
Hoovers’ Online: Information and news on businesses large and small, including corporate affiliations and financials. This site has both free information and a subscriber level.
Big Charts: This site pulls together news, industry performance, market summaries, current and historic stock quotes, and “state of the market” reports.
The Sedona Conference: Hosts the Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, one of the leading sources for e-discovery guidance.
DiscoveryResources.org: An online resource for current e-discovery information, geared towards law firms, corporate counsel, judges, and litigation support professionals.
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model: Created to develop guidelines and standards for e-discovery, EDRA hosts a variety of resources as well as information on current projects.
American Legal Ethics Library: Hosted by the Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute, the American Legal Ethics Library contains a wide variety of ethics information organized by jurisdiction and topic.
Legal Profession Blog: Part of the Law Professor Blogs Network, the Legal Profession Blog focuses on recent developments in ethics, and is a good place to find commentary and descriptions of the latest ethics opinions from around the country.
Corporate Counsel.net: A superb source for all things executive compensation-related, as well as many aspects of corporate governance.
Federal Law Resources, Overall
USA.gov: Comprehensive directory of US government resources, hosted by the US government
The White House: Executive branch resources, including executive orders
U.S. Courts: Maintained by the Administrative Office of the US Courts, this site provides a comprehensive list of US Federal Courts, including the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Bankruptcy Courts.
THOMAS: Legislative information including roll call, committees, bill activity, and more from the Library of Congress
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): A searchable and browsable codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
U.S. Code Collection: The complete U.S. Code, hosted by Cornell University Law School
Greg Siskind’s Blog: a most excellent source on developments in immigration law matters, from a Nashville immigration-law expert
International Law
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): Hosted by the Law Library of Congress.
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL): Developed with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by the American Society of International Law (“ASIL”), a scholarly association that has been a leader in the analysis, dissemination and development of international law since 1906.
International Bar Association
CEELI – The Central European and Eurasian Law Institute
FindLaw: International Constitutions: Links to constitutions from over 100 nations around the world, hosted by FindLaw.
UN: International Law: The United Nation’s home for International Law, addressing topics ranging from UNICTRAL to treaties to admiralty.
Legal Information Institute’s International Law Collection: A collection of foreign and international legal materials collected and hosted by Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
GlobaLex: GlobaLex provides thorough guides to foreign, internetational, and comparative laws.
International Treaties
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Jonsson/treaty.html
Law Guru treaty site: http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/?id=89
Highly recommended research guide: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/intl/gov_trtygde.html
Law and Bar Associations, other than the KBA (see “LEST WE FORGET” below)
ABA Division for Bar Services Information Clearinghouse: Provides a searchable database of publications on issues of administrative, managerial and substantive interest to the organized bar, its staff and volunteers.
ABA Division of Bar Services list of state and local bars
American Association of Law Libraries
Association of Legal Administrators
Federal Bar Association
National Association for Legal Professionals
National Federation of Paralegals Association
Special Libraries Association – Legal Division
Law Practice Tech
ABA LTRC: Researching Law Office Technology – Selected Resources: This page – assembled by the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center – lists a wide variety of legal technology resources ranging from periodicals to websites to email discussion lists.
Legal Employment
ABA Career Counsel: Provides resources for lawyers, law students, and employers, including job tips, profiles of attorneys from a variety of law practice environments, and more.
Emplawyernet: National databank of legal jobs. Also includes career services, recruiter resources, forums, and news. Requires membership.
National Association for Law Placement (NALP): A leading resource on the state of employment in the legal profession. Its resources include employment trend data and helpful information for new lawyers and laterals.
ABA Law Student Division: Networking and Job Opportunities: A collection of resources from the ABA’s Law Student Division to help law students find networking and job opportunities.
U.S. Department of Justice: Attorney Vacancies: A searchable database of current attorney job openings with the U.S. Department of Justice.
U.S. Courts Employment Opportunities: A collection of employment opportunities throughout the Federal Judiciary.
Findlaw Career Center: Searchable database of legal job openings provided by FindLaw.
LawJobs.com: A job search web site for the legal profession, serving both job seekers and employers.
The LawLadders.com: www.lawladders.com
UT Law School Career Placement: http://www.law.utk.edu/administration/cc-policies.shtml
Legal News Sources
ABA Journal (enough said!)
KBA: http://www.knoxbar.org/ (ditto!!) ?Law.com: Sign up for the Newswire, a daily e-mail of the latest legal news. The premium practice areas at Law.com are particularly strong resources.
Law Library Resource eXchange: Daily news about the law and well-written discussions of legal research and other information technologies affecting the practice of law.
Site-tation: The ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center’s monthly e-newsletter highlighting new or useful Web sites of interest to attorneys and other legal professionals. Each new issue is announced via e-mail to subscribers of this free publication.
FindLaw Legal News & Information: Legal news brought to you by FindLaw.
“TBA Today”: a great source for current Tennessee court opinions and breaking legal developments: http://www.tba2.org/op_flash.php
Legal Research Basics
ABA Lawlink: http://www.abanet.org/tech/ltrc/lawlink/home.html
Just The Law: http://www.justlawlinks.com/PRACTICE/index-practice.htm
ABA Supreme Court Preview: Hosted by the ABA’s Division for Public Education, Supreme Court Preview maintains a free, comprehensive, and regularly updated archive of all merits and amicus briefs filed in every case accepted for oral argument by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Legal Information Institute: Hosted by Cornell University’s School of Law, the LII is one of the preeminent legal resources on the Web, including one of the best arrangements of the Code of Federal Regulations and many substantive resources.
Findlaw.com: Findlaw, owned by West Group, is probably the leading free online index of legal materials, with links to off-site resources as well as a great deal of hosted material and tools, including hosted e-mail and the Lawcrawler search engine. The state-specific collections of resources are particularly useful.
The Law Review Project: The Coalition of Online Journals provides free full text search of online law journals (check the site for a list of included journals) and an e-mail notification of new articles.
The OYEZ Project: Hosted by Northwestern University School of Law, Oyez provides transcripts and, in some cases, audio files of leading US Supreme Court cases.
The Law and Policy Institutions Guide (Lpig.org): A collection of annotated resources ranging from legal research to law school tools and CLE sites.
Lawyer Express: A CEO Express Web site, with a customized area for lawyers.
AcqWeb: AcqWeb, created and maintained since 1994, is hosted by Appalachian State University. AcqWeb is an outstanding collection of information about legal publishers.
PublicLegal: Produced by the Internet Legal Research Group, it is an index of thousands of legal web sites, forms, and file.
Legal Professionalism
(See entry for “Ethics & Legal Professionalism” above)
Litigation, Defense
Defense Research Institute: http://www.dri.org
Local Counsel/Finding a Lawyer
Martindale’s Legal Professional Locator: The well-known directory of lawyers, law librarians, law firm administrators, and other legal professionals and service providers.
Lawyers.com: This site from Martindale-Hubbell provides consumers, both individuals and businesses, resources for hiring legal counsel.
iLawyer: Non-profit lawyer referral network for finding an experienced professional in New York, California, Texas, or Kentucky.
FizzLaw (http://fizzlaw.com/): “Intended to provide companies with accurate information on the cost and quality. In creating a high level of transparency for legal services,” FizzLaw enables companies and corporate counsel to accurately budget legal expenses, evaluate current or prospective providers and also assess the financial risk of pursuing various legal options. Companies will also have “the data needed to benchmark, assess and identify opportunities to increase efficiencies in their legal expenses.” A free site, inteded to facilitate the sharing of information by business people.
Municipal Bonds/Bond Ratingshttp://www.munibondadvisor.com/rating.htm
Overseas business and selecting good locations to do business
Transparency International http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi
Ratings and Risk Management
Standard and Poor’s site: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/pdf/fixedincome/corporateratings_2006.pdf
Real Estate
REITs: www.reit.com – Official site of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
First American’s site for title-related and other real property matters: http://www.firstam.com/
Securities Law
CUSIP numbers, and how to search: http://websearch.about.com/od/financialsites/qt/searchbycusip.htm
General securities and M&A updates and developments: Bowne’s website, SecuritiesConnect: http://www.bowne.com/securitiesconnect/ and R.R. Donnelley’s (authored by CorporateCounsel.net) : http://financial.rrd.com/wwwFinancial/Resources/newsletters/securities_newsletter_current.asp: Both are excellent, topical and highly authoritative sources.
SEC and EDGAR: http://www.sec.gov/
A special word on the values of EDGAR: EDGAR is not only great for SEC research, but as public companies are required to file material contracts, one can often find a wealth of well-drafted and negotiated contracts of all types—ranging from employment contracts to M&A agreements—that are filed as part of the exhibits to major SEC filings. It can be an invaluable asset to drafters looking for contractual templates and real-world/“best practices” examples.
EDGAR full-text search: http://searchwww.sec.gov/EDGARFSClient/jsp/EDGAR_MainAccess.jsp
SEC compliance and disclosure and the SEC Division of Corporation Finance’s Telephone Interpretation Manual (an incredibly useful tool for securities lawyers): http://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cfguidance.shtml
Stock options, stock grants, SEC reporting of the same and executive compensation: Romeo and Dye’s Section16.net at: http://www.section16.net/home/ (For anyone dealing routinely with SEC Section 16 matters, this is the “mother lode.”)
Also, try the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (“NASPP”): http://www.naspp.com/home/
State Law Resources (for the other 49 states; see “Tennessee State Law Matters” below)
State Court Website: Hosted by the National Center for State Courts, this site includes links to all available state courts and other resources.
National Center for State Courts : The Center is a non-profit founded by Chief Justice Warren Burger to promote justice by providing leadership and services to courts.
US State and Local Bar Associations: Hosted by ABA Division for Bar Services, click on the map to find bar associations in specific states.
Uniform Law Commission – NCCUSL Acts: Full text, legislative information, and bill tracking for a wide variety of Uniform Acts, provided by the Uniform Law Commission.
National Conference of State Legislatures: Numerous resources related to state legislatures and legal issues at the state level.
U.S. State and Territorial Laws: Links to state and territorial laws, constitutions, legal publications, ballot initiatives, and more.
Statistics, Legally Related
LTRC Surveys and Statistics: Product information for the annual Legal Technology Survey Report, plus links to other legal-tech surveys.
ABA Market Research Department Statistical Resources: This site includes links to ABA and other statistics about the legal profession, plus an information request service for further help.
U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics: A wide variety of statistics relating to the justice system, including crimes, law enforcement, prosecutions, and more.
Altman Weil Legal Surveys: Produces a wide variety of surveys each year on topics ranging from paralegal compensation to law firm retirement plans.
Tennessee Courts (admin by the AOC): http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/
Tennessee Code (Unannotated) and Constitution, and other state resources: http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/tn/index.html (See also Michie Publishing’s site at http://www.michie.com/tennessee/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=main-h.htm&cp)
Time zones by Tennessee county: http://www.timetemperature.com/tzus/current_time_in_tennessee.shtml
Translations/Online Translation Services
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
http://www.google.com/language_tools
U.S. Code Online
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode: This is found at Cornell’s LII project.
