What I Do Online

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Favorite Serach Engine

Top Ten Websites

Findlaw

Cornell LII

The Virtual Chase

LLRX

Martindale- Hubbell

Bar Association Websites

The Ultimates

The Delaware Corporate Clearinghouse

Search Systems

The Internet Legal Resources Guide

The 'Lectric Law Library Forms Room

CAROLE LEVITT'S TOP TEN WEB SITES FOR LEGAL RESEARCH (CONTINUED)

Bar Association Web Sites

While the content found at national, state and local bar associations' web sites vary greatly, they may provide some or all of the following: (1) professional rules of responsibility; (2) background information about every attorney (from their address to even licensing and discipline records); (3) a calendar of eventsBmeetings and CLE courses; (4) access to the bar journal online and (4) links to law-related Internet sites. The American Bar Association's site is at www.abanet.org/home.html. Use findlaw.com or martindale.com to locate comprehensive listings and links to all state (and many local) bar associations' web sites.

The Ultimates

Use this meta-site to find someone's e-mail address, phone number or address. It links to many different types of people finder directories, including, but not limited to, phone directories and reverse directories. Filling in one search box at The Ultimates site fills in your search information for all of the sites, but you must submit your search one at a time to each site. http://www.theultimates.com

The Delaware Corporate Clearinghouse

This site is a business litigator's dream site. In March 1999 it began offering access to selected opinions, briefs, complaints, settlements, motions and other documents filed in business law matters in the Delaware Court of Chancery. http://corporate-law.widener.edu/case.htm

Search Systems

A good starting point for discovering which states provide free access to public records via the Web. This meta-site also provides links to those states' public record sites. http://www.searchsystems.net

Forms

The Internet Legal Resources Guide provides access to free and fee-based transactional forms, such as quitclaim deeds and employment agreements at www.ilrg.com/forms, while The 'Lectric Law Library's Forms Room purports to be the Net's biggest collection of free transactional and litigation forms, at http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html.