Tom Bostwick
Law Office Practice & Legal Ethics
Books: Top
Most of the Law books are in the REF K and K section of
the library.
Browse the Reference law section or do a subject search using the CCBC
Dundalk Library Catalog to find books on your topic. Use the
index or table of contents in the books to narrow your search.
Law Databases & Magazine, Journals, & Newspapers:
The legal
databases are the most helpful for the para legal students.
They include West Law, Criminal Justice Database, Law module in
Proquest and Lois Law which requires a passwords to access.
Select All
the databases or Databases
by Subject to see all of our current databases.
To access the databases go to the databases on the Magazine,
Journal & Newspaper web page and follow the instructions for
off-campus access.
See Tips for Searching our databases.
Web Sites: Top
These web sites were found using Evaluative Web
Sites like Librarian's Index to the
Internet and Legal Research Workshops & Literature.
General Law Starting points:
*FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
- http://www.findlaw.com/ The best single starting point on the Web
for doing legal research. Full text searchable database of all law
reviews and journals on the Internet. Links to court decisions,
government agencies, court forms, just about anything legal. Good law
web meta site. Updated nightly.
Lawcrawler
-http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ LawCrawler, helps you focus your
search on legal issues on the Web. Nice search results for different
topics. Good for finding specific sites and meta-sites.
*Cornell's Legal Information
Institute Legal Information Institute (LII) -
http://lii.law.cornell.edu/ Extensive materials on the law. Links to
primary source materials such as laws and regulations by topic. Law
About has overviews of more than 100 legal topics, with links to the
laws and related Web resources; Constitutions & Codes has both state and
federal; Court Opinions, available judicial opinion, federal and state.
InSITE
Database An indexed compilation of the several hundred Web sites
annotated by Cornell Law librarians in individual issues of InSITE since
it began in February 1996.
Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org/ One of
the most comprehensive legal sites on the Web, Hieros Gamos has
something for everyone: law students, lawyers, and consumers. "The
purpose of this site is to give the visitor a general understanding of
the law." Links are divided into categories such as Legal Employment,
Law News, Law Library, U.S. and International Law, Legal Associations,
and Bar Associations. International in scope.
*JURIST: The Legal Education
Network http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/This is a gateway to expert legal
information designed for people wishing to learn, research, or teach
legal subjects. The My Jurist page gathers links to law school Web pages
so that users may find legal information "or use these portals as
gateways to law schools, law libraries, courts and bar associations
across the country." Free weekly e-mail updates are available.
New England School of Law Legal
Topics - Starting place for legal researchers. Use left column for
information guides.
Guide to Law Online http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html
An annotated guide to online sources of information worldwide on
government and law. It includes links to the most useful and
reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's
nations. Prepared by the US Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal
Information Network (GLIN). See also their database (click on Guest) of
national laws from contributing countries around the world.
Legal Ethics: Top
Ethics
for the Paralegal links to ethics topics from NFPA- National
Federation of Paralegal Association with links to :
National
Federation of Paralegal Associations Guideline for Ethics
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 95-3 May a paralegal with whom a
conflict of interest in a legal matter has been identified erect an
ethical wall?
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 95-4 Is it ethical for a
paralegal to bill clients for tasks which are more clerical and
non-professional than substantive in nature?
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 95-5 Are contract paralegals
retained by attorneys in law firms, corporations and other legal
entities, required to comply with the same ethical obligations as
employed or traditional paralegals?
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 95-6 What are the ethical
implications, if any, of freelance paralegal solicitation of attorney
clients?
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 96-1 -What are the ethical
implications concerning client confidentiality, if any, of paralegals
communicating in cyberspace?
Informal
Ethics and Disciplinary Opinion No. 96-2 Question:What are the
ethical implications concerning the unauthorized practice of law as it
relates to paralegals communicating in cyberspace?
General Legal Ethics for
lawyers from the American Bar Association includes the
Center
for Professional Responsibility Site provides resources regarding
professional responsibility, including the annotated Model Rules of
Professional Conduct and the ABA Compendium of Professional
Responsibility Rules and Standards.
Links to all States Legal
Ethics Information from the American Bar Association are Links to
Other Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Pages
FindLaw
-Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law http://findlaw.com/01topics/14ethics/index.html
Contains an ethics and Professional Responsibility web guide that
provides useful links to court decisions, articles, websites and other
sources involving legal ethics.
American Legal Ethics
Library - Cornell's American Legal Ethics Library is perhaps the
most complete research library of information on legal ethics.This
digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for
the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing
lawyers, organized on a state by state basis.
Legal Ethics.com -
http://www.legalethics.com This site, maintained by cyberethics expert
Peter Krakaur, posts a wealth of legal ethics information, including a
large library of state ethics opinions, information on Internet ethics
and other cyberspace issues, as well as links to other information.
Freivogel's conflicts of
interest valuable source for both recent decisions and opinions on
legal ethics and a library of conflicts information divided by
substantive category.
Associations: Top
National Associations of Legal Assistants
http://www.nala.org/ Professional association for legal assistants
Association of Legal
Administrators (ALA). with information on Certified Legal Managers
American Association of Law Libraries
http://www.aallnet.org
American Bar Association
http://www.abanet.org
Legal Research: Top
*The Virtual Chase -
http://www.virtualchase.com/ (check out Legal research & how to use
search engines) in left column Subtitled "A Research Site for Legal
Professionals," this excellent site is actually for anyone interested in
doing research using the Internet. Genie's TVC Alert is excellent for
keeping up to date .It also includes the following links:
Legal
and Factual Research on the Internet gives research strategies for
finding information on the Courts
Click on Understanding
the Federal Courts (PDF
file need Adobe Acrobat to access,) Statutory Law , Legal Commentary,
and Focusing on International or Foreign Law.
Information
Quality: A Checklist for Determining the Value of Information
Retrieved from Internet, with hyperlinked examples, should be required
reading for anyone reading this description.
*Nolo's Legal
Encyclopedia - http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/index.cfm This
site has legal information in non-legal language in seventeen subject
areas. Great source of information for the lay person. In addition,
there are annotated lists of recommended Internet resources related to
each subject.
Famous
Trials - http://www.umkc.edu/famoustrials Famous trials from the
Trial of Socrates through modern day. This is an educational site
maintained at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School. Doug
Linder, Professor of Law.
LLRX.com.
http://www.llrx.com/index.htm Online legal research news. Five years
worth of articles on legal research topics, including many International
research guides. Archive is organized by topic.
Locating the Law - For
basic information on legal research http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/
from Southern California State Law Libraries Click on locating the
law,4th ed. in pull down menu on left PDF copy of book
Basic Legal Citation Cornell
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/ On left column click on How to
Cite.
Real Life Dictionary of the Law URL: http://dictionary.law.com
A feature of the Law.com website, this dictionary has been compiled by
Gerald and Kathleen Hill, a lawyer and a writer with government
experience, respectively. The user may enter a legal term or a
definition, retrieving one or more entries, or browse by any letter of
the alphabet.
LexNotes -
http://www.lexnotes.com/index.shtml A new online resource for legal
research professionals. It provides categorized and searchable links to
research sources, bibliographies, pathfinders, articles, reviews,
papers, legal news, and tips.
Maryland Law Web Sites: Top
*Maryland
Legal Links http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/screens/mdgen.html
Maryland
Code - Full text with searching capability now available for the
Maryland Code and Maryland Rules of Procedure compliments of
Lexis-Nexis. This is a work in progress.
Code of Maryland Agency
Regulations (COMAR)
https://constmail.gov.state.md.us/comar/dsd_web/comar_web/comar.htm
Maryland State Law Library
http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/
Maryland State Courts
http://www.courts.state.md.us/
Government Resources: Top
State & Local Government:
State And Local
Government on the Web Lots of links on this page
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Federal:
Case Law: Supreme
Court - FindLaw http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html Cases
from 1893, volume 150 of the United States Reports.
Supreme Court Web Site -
http://supremecourtus.gov/ Opinions, Dockets, Oral arguments, Recent
Decisions, Court Rules...
Regulations: *Code
of Federal Regulations http://cfr.law.cornell.edu/cfr/ This
front-end to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is generated from and
links to the most recent version of the CFR placed on the Internet by
the Government Printing Office.
Legislation & Bills: *Thomas
- US Congress on the Internet http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
General Info: Top
FirstGov http://www.firstgov.gov
Offers a topical organization which can be very helpful. Browse links to
general information or search for more specific agencies, etc.
FedLaw
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm A guide to online Federal laws,
rules, regulations and judicial decisions from the GSA.
Search Systems: Public Record
Locator http://www.searchsystems.net/ Find sources for free public
records information on the web. A high percentage of this information is
the invisible web.
GovEngine.com This directory
consolidates links to official federal, state, and local government
information sites for the United States, Guam, American Samoa, Virgin
Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Browse by
type of government--federal, state, or local--or by state. Listen to MD
Legislature online.
Search Engine Strategies: Top
Google's Government Search
http://www.google.com/unclesam
Google Advanced
- www.google.com/ advanced search -Searching of PDFs is extremely
important to legal researchers
Law Discussion Lists
Law Lists
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/law-lists A database of legal
discussion lists (mailing lists and Usenet discussion groups),
newsletters, and journals. Searchable. Maintained by Law Librarian at
the University of Chicago.
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