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.

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

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

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

5th 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.

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

Access each state’s constitution, state legislative information.

http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.htm

Lawlinks

http://www.lawlinks.com/

Lawlists

http://www.kentlaw.edu

Law Crawler

http://www.lawcrawler.com

Library of Congress Internet resources

http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/global/state/stategov.html

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.

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

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

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

1st Circuit US Court of Appeals

http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/