Resources

General Legal Resources: Links to academic institutions, states, federal court, government, organizations, legal forms and continuing legal education.
Finding Tools: Locate attorney directions and lists, lay and expert witnesses including experts who have registered on the Internet or subscribe to a fee-based directory of experts.
Financial: The Financial section includes investment information currency exchange rates, the Securities and Exchange Commission's database, ability to search for a business, access to the A.M. Best Companies' rating system, consumer information about insurance companies, and a look at who gave what to which candidate in last year's elections.
Medical Research: Locate doctors, research prescription drugs and access MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database covering all fields of medicine and containing over 8.6 million records dating back to 1966. It is the most comprehensive medical resource available on the Internet. A doctor may be located using the American Medical Association's Physician Select Online Doctor Finder, or a researcher can visit the First Internet Medical Bookstore and purchase a medical treatise on a particular subject.
Service Companies: Explore a variety of legal services on the Internet including Westlaw, Lexis-Nexis, UPS, Federal Express, Bluesheets, and automobile blue book values.
Writing: Aids Dictionaries, famous quotes, Shakespeare's works, and reference materials.
Publishers, News, Media and Magazines: Access full text newspaper articles, receive up to the minute news, weather and sports, or search a magazine directory containing links to hundreds of Web Sites throughout the Internet. Reach publisers of legal materials.

State of Texas

Search the State of Texas, as well as information regarding service of process, case law research, statutes, codes, and various fee-based services offered on the internet

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
ALSO	http://www.lawsource.com/also	A comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all online sources of American law that are available without charge.
Links to Texas Government	http://www.state.tx.us	Access to all Texas government information on the Internet.
Legislative Reference Library	http://www.lrl.state.tx.us	Link to many Texas and national websites
Secretary of State	http://www.sos.state.tx.us	Office of the Texas Secretary of State
Attorney General Opinions	http://www.oag.state.tx.us	Office of the Texas Attorney General
Agencies	http://www.state.tx.us/ agency/agencies.html	Links to all agencies in Texas
Texas Rules of Evidence	http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/ texas/rcve_toc.htm	Texas rules in full text
Texas State Legislature	http://www.capitol.state.tx.us	Texas State Legislature
Texas Department of Transportation	http://www.dot.state.tx.us	Highway conditions, weather forecast, tourism, legislative information, etc
Department of Public Safety	http://www.txdps.state.tx.us	Drivers license information, crime records etc.
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission	http://www.tabc.state.tx.us	TABC code & rules.
Constitution	http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/ txconst/toc.html	Full text of the Texas Constitution
Bills	http://www.capitol.state.tx.us	Access the Texas Legislature online
Justice Information Management System	http://www.co.harris.tx.us/jims	Access to highly detailed information of proceedings within Harris County.
All Counties in Texas	http://www.state.tx.us/ county/counties.html	Access to a list of all counties in Texas and related websites.
Harris County Appraisal District	http://www.hcad.org	Real property values

Texas Courts

Access information about the Texas Courts on such as presiding and visiting judges with addresses and phone numbers, and municipal court information

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Harris County Courts	http://www.co.harris.tx.us	Information regarding rules for Harris County Court
Bexar County Courts	http://www.co.bexar.tx.us	Locate constables for service. Phone numbers for various courts
Travis County Courts	http://www.co.travis.tx.us	Names and addresses of County Court personnel including clerks and judge
Tarrant County Courts	http://www.tarrantcounty.com	Names and addresses of County Court personnel including clerks and judges
El Paso County Courts	http://rgfn.epcc.edu/rgfn/ projects/county/index.html	Commissioners' Court information
Texas Direct	http://www.txdirect.net/users /rrichard/news.htm	Announcements for Appellate Justices and Practitioners
5^th District Court of Appeals-Dallas	http://www.courtstuff.com/5th	Access case and attorney information as well as opinions
Harris County Municipal Courts	http://www.ci.houston.tx.us/ departme/courts	Fine payment information along with phone numbers
Texas Courts	http://www.courts.state.tx.us/	Texas Supreme Court and all Texas court information including justices' addresses and phone numbers
Texas Supreme Court	http://www.supreme.courts .state.tx.us	Online publication of recent Texas Court Opinions

States

Search the various starting points for legal research using the URLs provided in this section.

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Legal Information Institute at Cornell	http://www.law.cornell.edu	The most comprehensive legal source on the Internet
Findlaw	http://www.findlaw.com	Access various legal resources
Legal List	http://www.lcp.com	A guide to legal research on the Internet.
LectLaw	http://www.lectlaw.com	Electric law library on the Internet.
Links to State Codes	http://www.law.cornell. edu/states/index.html http://www.lawsource.com/ also/usa.htm	Access each state's constitution, state legislative information.
Lawlinks	http://www.lawlinks.com/	Legal links
Lawlists	http://www.kentlaw.edu	Legal links
Law Crawler	http://www.lawcrawler.com	Search engine for legal sites on the internet.
State and Local Governments	http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/ global/state/stategov.html	Library of Congress Internet resources

Federal Government

Search the United States Congress to discover current Federal legislation. Look up various States' Codes, codes of Federal Regulations, and the Federal Registers.

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Federal Web Locator	http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/	One stop shopping point for federal government information
FedWorld	http://www.fedworld.gov	comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and acquiring government and business information
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure	http://www.law.cornell.edu/ rules/frcp/overview.htm	Full Text of the FR of CP.
Federal Rules of Evidence	http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/ fre/overview.html	Full Text of the FR of E
Code of Federal Regulations	http://www.access.gpo.gov/ nara/cfr/index.html	Search the Code of Federal Regulations
Office of the Law Revision Counsel	http://uscode.house.gov	The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States
US Senate	http://www.senate.gov	Locate individual senate addresses; conduct searches; links to references
US Constitution	http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/ constitution/constitution.overview.html	Full text of the U.S. Constitution
Bureau of Labor Statistics	http://stats.bls.gov	United States economic data
Bureau of the Census	http://www.census.gov	Demographic, social, economic information
Department of Justice	http://www.usdoj.gov	The largest law firm
Department of Labor	http://www.dol.gov	Minimum wage, labor protections, current and proposed workplace regulation information.
Department of Transportation	http://www.dot.gov	The site for the travel business and industrial transportation decisions.
Internal Revenue Service	http://www.irs.ustreas.gov	Access IRS forms and publications.

Industry Standards

Search various industry home pages to discover information regarding product recalls, the latest on medical device and drug approvals and other regulatory matters

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Occupational Safety and Health Administration	http://www.osha.gov	OSHA sets the standards for the health the American employee
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration	http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov	Access all automobile recalls and test data from NHTSA
National Transportation Safety Board	http://www.ntsb.gov	Information on Aviation, Highway, Marine, Pipeline and HAZMAT, and Railroad accidents
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety	http://www.hwysafety.org	Access crash test results, regulations, laws
Consumer Product Safety Commission	http://www.cpsc.gov	Access consumer product recalls and information, business and regulatory information
Environmental Protection Agency	http://www.epa.gov	The EPA protects the public health and the natural environment-air, water and land
Society of Automotive Engineers	http://www.sae.org	The essential reference for all engineers and researchers who want access to the most current vehicle technology along with SAE's archives of past publications

Federal Courts

Search these sources for the United States Supreme Court and the States Circuit Courts of Appeals opinions

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
US Supreme Court Decisions	http://supct.law.cornell.edu/ supct/cases/topic.htm	Search historic Supreme Court decisions by topic
Findlaw	http://www.findlaw.com/ casecode/supreme.html	Database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1893
1^st Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.law.emory.edu/ 1circuit/	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
2^nd Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.tourolaw.edu/ 2ndcircuit/indexf.html	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
3^rd Circuit Us Court of Appeals	http://vls.law.vill.edu/ Locator/3/index.htm	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
4^th Circuit Us Court of Appeals	http://www.law.emory.edu/ 4circuit/	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
5^th Circuit Us Court of Appeals	http://www.law.utexas.edu/ us5th/us5th.html	Search opinions from 1991 to the present
6^th Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.law.emory.edu/ 6circuit/	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
7^th Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.kentlaw.edu/ 7circuit/	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
8^th Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/ 8th.cir	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
9^th Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/ newopinions.nsf/Opinions+by+date? OpenView&Start=1& Count=100&Expand=1.1	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
10^th Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.washlaw.edu/ searchlaw.html#10thCircuit	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
11^th Circuit US Court Of Appeals	http://www.law.emory.edu/ 11circuit	Search opinions from 1994 to the present
Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.law.emory.edu/ fedcircuit	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
D.C. Circuit US Court of Appeals	http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ Fed-Ct/cadc.html	Search opinions from 1995 to the present
US District Court Southern District of Texas	http://www.txs.uscourts.gov/	Local Rules
US District Court Eastern District of Texas	http://www.txed.uscourts.gov/	Local Rules
US District Court Northern District of Texas	http://www.txnd.uscourts.gov	Local Rules

Academic

Search various law schools to discover admissions information, faculty, and administration. Many journals are also available online

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Legal information Institute at Cornell	http://www.law.cornell.edu	The most comprehensive link on the Internet for law information.
The Indiana University School of Law	http://www.law.indiana.edu	One of the main starting points for legal searches via Internet
Emory University School of Law	http://www.law.emory.edu	A main starting point to access information regarding every Federal court including the United States Supreme Court.
University of Texas School of Law	http://www.law.utexas.edu	Link to Texas legal Internet sites, the United States Court of Appeals, and University of Texas School of Law Journals
WashLaw WEB at Washburn University	http://www.washlaw.edu/	Starting point to many legal sites including case law, codes, and courts
Georgia State University College of Law	http://law.gsu.edu/	Meta-Index for legal research
Harvard University School of law	http://www.law.harvard.edu	Largest academic law library in the world
Law Reviews	http://www.usc.edu/dept/ law-lib/legal/journals.html	Access a list of legal journals on the internet
American Law Reports (ALR)	http://www.lexis-nexis.com	Provider of credible, in-depth information. Legal, government, and business tools and information

Corporate Information

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
EDGAR	http://www.sec.gov/ edgarhp.htm	Access publicly traded corporation's SEC filinings including, 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K reports
Free EDGAR	http://www.freedgar.com	Free corporate information regarding SEC filings
Invest Quest	http://invest.quest.columbus.oh.us	Designs and hosts comprehensive investor presentations and provides financial documents for over 10,000 public companies to users in more than 145 countries
Fortune	http://www.pathfinder.com/ fortune/fortune500/	Database available for download
Business Finder	http://www.bigbook.com	Locate any business in the United States
Hoover's Corporate Information	http://www.hoovers.com	Company profiles, links to online stores, business and investment news
Report Gallery	http://www.reportgallery.com/	Annual reports of hundreds of corporation
Directory of Associations	http://www.asaenet.org/main/	Link to many organizations on the internet

Medical Research

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Health Finder	http://www.healthfinder.gov	Links to online publications, clearing houses, databases, web sites, and support/self help groups in the medical field
Med Mal Search	http://www.askmedi.com	Background information on every physician licensed to practice medicine in the United States
The National Library of Medicine	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/	Search medical news, publications, databases, and electronic information sources
Occupational Safety and Health Administration	http://www.osha.gov	OSHA sets the standard for the health and safety of the American employee
Internet Grateful Med	http://igm.nlm.nih.gov	Internet Grateful Med offers assisted searching of Med-line and 10 other files
Medscape	http://www.medscape.com	Provides information from journals, medical news providers and medical education programs
Healthweb	http://www.healthweb.org	Provides links to specific, evluated information resources on the web selected by leading academic medical centers in the Midwest
Medical Matrix	http://www.medmatrix.org	Provides information from major journals, textbooks, information on diseases and conditions, and patient education
Medscout	http://www.medscout.com	Search list of diseases by International Classification of Diseases as well as links to other medical websites
Medical World Search	http://www.mwsearch.com	Provides a comprehensive search engine for medical terminology on the World Wide Web
Medis Search	http://www.docnet.org.uk/	Provides a unique search engine whose only job is to index articles from journals that have content online
Texas State Board of Medical Examiners	http://www.tsbme.state.tx.us	Provides information on Texas health care providers and regulations
Achoo	http://www.achoo.com	Provides a comprehensive healthcare database with more than 7,000 indexed and searchable health care sites
HealthAtoZ	http://www.healthatoz.com	Provides a directory of more than 50,000 professionally-reviewed Internet resources

Writing Aids

Site Name or Subject	URL	Description
Black's Law Dictionary	http://www.alaska.net/ ~winter/black_law_dictionary.html	Corporation law dictionary
Barlett, John, 1901, Familiar Quotations	http://www.bartleby.com	Search alphabetically or chronologically for the world's most famous quotes
Jeff's English Page	http://www.apocalypse.org/ pub/u/batalion/english.shtml/ u/batalion/english.html	A guide to writing resources, poetry collections, Shakespeare, Carroll, and other classics. On-line dictionaries of multiple foreign languages
On-Line Dictionaries	http://www.facstaff.bucknell. edu/rbeard/diction.html	An online dictionary
WW Webster Dictionary	http://www.m-w.com/ netdict.htm	An online dictionary
Reference Shelf	http://alabanza.com/ kabacoff/inter-Links/reference.html	Quick access to words, facts and figures
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts on the Internet	http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/	Enormous collection of books in electronic form
On–Line Reference Works	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ references.html	Link to dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, and famous quotations