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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 publishers 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

State Of Texas

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
 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 Government

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/
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals
http://www.tourolaw.edu/2ndcircuit/indexf.html
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

3rd Circuit Us Court of Appeals
http://vls.law.vill.edu/Locator/3/index.htm
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

4th Circuit Us Court of Appeals
http://www.law.emory.edu/4circuit/
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

5th Circuit Us Court of Appeals
http://www.law.utexas.edu/us5th/us5th.html
Search opinions from 1991 to the present

6th Circuit US Court of Appeals
http://www.law.emory.edu/6circuit/
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

7th Circuit US Court of Appeals
http://www.kentlaw.edu/7circuit/
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

8th Circuit US Court of Appeals
http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/8th.cir
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

9th 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

10th Circuit US Court of Appeals
http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html#10thCircuit
Search opinions from 1995 to the present

11th 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