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Legal Research - Texas Style!
Table of Contents
Laws, Regulations, Rules & Codes
Resources & Journals
Legal Search Engines
Courts - Texas
Research Links - General
Multiple Simultaneous Search Engines (general
searches)
Texas State Government and Quasi-Governmental
Sites
Law Schools
CLE Sources
U.S. Federal Courts & Cases
Legal Indexes
Finding Lawyers
U.S. Government Agencies
Standard Transactional and Other Forms
for Texas
Environmental Law & Resources
Foreign Law & Courts
Legal Directories & Related Resources
- General
Other Useful Legal Stuff
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Laws, Regulations, Rules & Codes
The
Texas Statutes
The
Texas Register
Texas
Attorney General Opinions
Texas
Penal Code
Texas Administrative
Code
The
Texas State Constitution
The Texas Penal Code
Courts - Texas
Texas Judiciary Online- includes directory of judiciary, court rules, Office of Court Administration, judicial committees, councils & task forces, judicial education, links to statutes & caselaw, justice agencies, legal software, etc., etc.
Texas
Supreme Court
5th
District Court of Appeals - Dallas
Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals Opinions
Texas
Court of Appeals - 8th District
U.S. District
Court - Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District
Court - Northern District of Texas
U.S. District
Court - Southern District of Texas
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Texas State Government & Quasi-Governmental Sites
Office of the Governor
Texas Legislature - text of house and senate bills, calendars, committee membership and schedules, session times,
legislative district information, Texas constitution and statutes, and capitol events
Texas House
of Representatives
House Research Organization - non-partisan information on the Texas Legislature
The Texas Senate
State Auditor's
Office
Texas
State Government Pathfinder
Texas Workers'
Compensation Commission
Ethics Commission's
Web Site
Alcoholic
Beverage Commission (TABC)
Department
of Public Safety
Highway Patrol Association
Texas Municipal Police Association
Texas Department of Public Safety
Convictions and Sex Offender Registration Database - searches require registration & payment
Texas Department
of Banking
More
state Agencies
Window on State
Government (Comptroller's Office)
Yahoo list of State Agencies - from "Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications" to "Youth Commission"
Texas State Electronic Library - includes info on Texas State Government, State Agencies, other Texas Information, "Facts at your Fingertips" information by subject, Texas Union Catalog (search many online Texas libraries simultaneously), other good stuff
Texas
Child Support Evaders
The
Texas Administrative Law Handbook
Law Enforcement
Associations of Texas
Crime
Victims' Compensation Program
State
of Texas Sources of Information
State
Court Directory - searchable descriptive index of state court resources
througout U.S.
National Association of Secretaries of State - excellent tool for finding the administrative codes and registers for most of the US (30 at last count) including Texas
Texas Association of Counties
Texas Municipal League
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US Fed. Courts, Law & Cases
Internet Sleuth
- Judicial Branch - from one site you can search the Code of Federal
Regulations, Federal Register, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Federal
Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Judicial Conduct, Public Laws (last
2 Congresses), Rules of the Supreme Court, Unified (regulatory) Agenda;
plus a good set of links!
U.S. Federal
Courts Finder
Federal Law locator
from GSA
U.S.
Constitution
U.S.
Code - searchable
U.S.
Code of Federal Regulations - searchable
U.S.
Federal Register - searchable
U.S.
Supreme Court Cases
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US Government Agencies
Cyberpage
- US Treasury Dept.
EDGAR
(Securities & Exchange Commission)
Fed
Web
GovBot
Database - collection of nearly 5 Million web pages from US government
and military sites
United States Department
of Justice Home Page
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Foreign Law & Courts
Swiss Law
Central
and East European Legal, Political, Business and Economics WWW Resources
Department
of Justice Canada
Internet
Legal Resources (from Canadian lawfirm)
Legal
Research - The Australian Perspective
Canadian
Internet Environmental Resources
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Resources and Journals
Texas Law
Pipeline (State Bar of Texas Computer Section)
Texas
Legal Research Internet Sites - Terrific site!
Texas Lawyer's TexLaw
- online service of the Texas Lawyer
Texas Municipal
Courts Education Center - includes municipal codes, Texas Rules of
Evidence
Texas
State Law Library
Texas Review of Law
& Politics - law review-style articles with conservative emphasis
Texas
International Law Journal - abstracts, full-text by subscription
Texas
Journal of Women and the Law - abstracts, full-text by subscription
Texas
Intellectual Property Law Journal - abstracts, full-text by subscription
Computer
Law Review and Technology Journal (State Bar of Texas / SMU Law School)
Texas Trial Lawyers
Association - consumer & other fields; litigation emphasis
Texas Young Lawyers
Association (TYLA)
Texas Academy of
Family Law Specialists
ACLU Texas
Texas Land Title Association
Texas Political Resource
Page
Texas Historical
Commission
Research Links- General
Legal
Research Room via Law Office Technology
Legal
Research on the Internet
Counsel
Quest - good links
Rutgers
School of Law - links and stuff
LSU
- Legal Resources Links
The Internet
Lawyer
West Publishing
Law
Research
Legal
Information Center
Law
Marks
Chicago-Kent's
Lawlinks Index
RJE
Directory of Banks (Bankweb)
WWW
Virtual Library: Law
Law Sources
On-Line
Gopher
Menu for wiretap.spies.com Interesting collection of documents (full-text),
mainly US political and legal, some Australian and Canadian; also Constitutions
from various countries.
ABA
LawLink Legal Research
Government
& Law
Internet Legal Resource
Guide
Internet Legal
Services Directory
Hieros Gamos
- Law-Related Sites
ILRG's
Legal Indices and Search Engines
Resources
on the Internet - UCLA
P-LAW Legal
Resource Locator - Miscellaneous Sites
Law
and Court Related Web Sites
Law Schools
Texas Tech Law Review
University of Houston
Law School
Texas Southern School
of Law
South Texas College
of Law
Texas Wesleyan
Law School
Baylor University
Law School
SMU University
Law School
University of
Texas School of Law
Course Outlines
- Texas Tech Law School (click on Law Computer Society / Outlines)
Alphabetic
list of Law Schools
Legal Indexes
The Meta-Index
for US Law (Excellent)
FindLaw
Current
Legal Resources on the Net
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Standard Transactional and Other Forms for Texas
TexasLegal.Com
Lectric
Law Library - Forms General business & real estate forms - beware:
may not be Texas-specific!
Capsoft
Template forms You can buy forms templates, with their proprietary
software to run them (not free! - their Texas Real Estate set is $99 at
last notice)
Legal
and Business forms - Texas Outstanding set of links to sources
for forms, from the Texas Law Librarians' Home Page.
Legal
and Business forms - General More good stuff from the Texas Law Librarians.
Texas
Corporation forms promulgated by the Texas Secretary of State's Office.
Texas
Probate Forms from Barnes & Karisch, PC.
Texas
Statutory Forms from the Texas Secretary of State's office.
Forms
from the US District Court, ND Texas
LawSmart - Legal
Documents and Forms (not Texas-specific)
My thanks to the Texas Librarians' website, from which I borrowed the last
several links!
FindLaw -links
to free and fee-based forms, various jurisdictions
Legal Documents Online
(general, not Texas-specific) some free, some pay
Legal Directories & Related Resources - General
Chicago-Kent College of
Law Home Page
Washburn
Web - Excellent Starting Point
Law Book Network
LegalServ
Nolo Press
Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia - variety of legal topics
American
Standard Law Dictionary
Oran's
Legal Dictionary - from West Publishing
Jeff
Flax's Law Related Resources
Galaxy's
Law Page
Federal
Web Locator
Filez
Library
of Congress Online Services
Govt. Printing
Office Gate at University of California
THE 'LECTRIC
LAW LIBRARY'S(TM) ROTUNDA -Outstanding resource!
Legal
Resources - PINKY - One of the Best!
LLR
Browser Selection Page
nolo.com Links
(self-help law press)
Counsel
Quest legal information clearinghouse
Counsel Connect
Web
LawInfo
(locating attorneys, organizations)
Law Guru Good
starting point for research.
Legal Search Engines
FindLaw - LawCrawler
Virtual
Legal Search Engines
Keyword
Search Internet- Washlaw WWW
Thomas - Legislative
Info from the Library of Congress
CataLaw
MetaIndex of worldwide law sources, by subject or region & also searching
for attorneys, listservs, employment, lots of other good stuff!
Multiple Simultaneous Search Engines (general searches)
FAST Search - not a true simultaneous search engine, but check it out! It purports to have indexed over 600 million individual web pages - several times that of the next most inclusive search engine. It is also amazingly fast.
Cyber 411
- Sixteen Search Engines, One Query (this is one of my favorites)
Internet Sleuth
- several varieties of multiple search engines
SavvySearch
(11 WWW engines)
MetaCrawler
simultaneous search & verify (8 WWW engines)
Dogpile, the
Friendly Multi-Engine Search Tool (14 WWW engines) reports 10 best hits
from each engine.
or, for more power ...
Dogpile
on Steroids (25 WWW engines) customize your search from 25 choices.
CUSI
- Multiple search pathways, but only one at a time
Fly Catcher
(7 WWW engines)
MetaSearch
(unsure how many)
Prime
Search 32 different search engines (at last count) split into four
categories.
Mamma "the Mother
of all Search Engines" (unsure how many)
Profusion
from University of Kansas (7 WWW search engines)
Search.Com
a service of C|Net (unsure how many)
Debriefing
(6 WWW engines)
The
Spicy Site (I didn't name it!) 16 WWW engines - one at a time.
Google (Beta) - OK, not a multiple search engine, but a very good one that chooses relevant sites based on the number and quality of links to that site by other sites
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CLE Sources
State Bar of Texas
State
Bar of Texas -- Professional Development
Bar
Associations
American
Bar Assn - CLE pages
ABA -
CLE resource directory
ALI-ABA
Committee on Continuing Legal Education Home Page
Dallas (Texas)
Bar Association
Travis
County, Texas (Austin) Bar Association
Finding Lawyers
Finding
Lawyers - several search engines
Martindale
Lawyer Locator
West's
Legal Directory - Gopher Index
FindLaw: Lawyers
and Law Firms
Lawyer
Indices
Legal Aid in Texas - fill in city to locate Legal Aid attorneys.
Environmental Law & Resources
Voluntary
Cleanup
Texas Natural
Resources Conservation Commission Home Page
Environmental
Protection Agency
CERCLIS
Query Form
Substantive
Law on the Web
Yahoo!
- Society and Culture:Environment and Nature:Law
American
Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental
Law
Search
the EPA Server
Environmental
Law WWW Site
Environmental
Law I - British Columbia, Canada
EPA
Envirofacts Querying Capability
Pace
University Law School Virtual Environmental Law Library
Other Useful Legal Stuff
Legal
Dictionary
Law Journal
Extra! - Table of Contents
Computer
Law Observer: Legal issues
Project Hermes (FTP
directories for synopses & opinions)
Consumer
Laws
Complete Legal
Documents - various sources
Electronic
Banking Resource Center
Dictionaries,
Thesauri & other reference works
One Look offers
63 specialized dictionaries in various disciplines
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