Ten Handy Dandy Internet Tools for the Law Firm Environment
1.
Florida Government Information Locator
http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/
State Agency Listing - http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/agencies.htm
Government Links - http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/government.html
Includes statutes,
courts, city and county government, etc…
2.
Findlaw.com
http://www.findlaw.com
Law firm websites - http://directory.findlaw.com/
Directories: company websites, city information and more -
http://www.findlaw.com/directories/index.html
Expert Witnesses - http://marketcenter.findlaw.com/experts_consultants.html
Florida Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/fl/index.html
3.
Package
Tracking on the Web
Federal Express - http://www.fedex.com/
United Parcel Service - http://www.ups.com/
USPS - http://www.usps.com/ (includes
zip code look-up)
4.
Martindale Hubbell Law Directory
http://www.martindale.com/
Search for Attorneys or Law Firms - http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub
5.
The Florida Bar
http://www.flabar.org/
Provides a directory of Florida attorneys, the rules regulating
attorneys in Florida, the Florida Bar Journal
and the Florida Bar News, and a catalog of
CLE materials and much more. For links to other law-related professional organizations, go to
http://www.everlove.net/prof_assoc.htm.
6.
Investigative Resource Center’s Public
Records Links
http://www.factfind.com/public.htm
Includes both a subject listing and a state listing of public
records resources on the Web; this list is
not exhaustive by any means, but it does give
one a starting place.
7.
Dictionaries and Reference Tools
Purdue University’s THOR - http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/dict.html
Dictionary.com - http://www.dictionary.com/
Bluebook - http://wwwsecure.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation.table.html
Oran's Dictionary of the Law - http://www.wld.com/conbus/orans/Welcome.asp
8.
Grateful Med
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/
Search medical journal abstract database for free on the web.
Instructions - http://nosferatu.cas.usf.edu/lis/lis6609/gm/igm.html
9.
Yahoo’s Get Local – Tampa
Instant access to local weather, and local yellow pages including
maps and driving directions.
10.
Direct Search By Gary Price, MLIS At George Washington University
Links to databases that are NOT INDEXED by search engines (“the
invisible web”).