• The Code of Hammurabi
• The Magna Carta
• Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England  (searchable 13th Century treatise on English common law, attributed to Henry of Bratton, c. 1210-1268)
• Blackstone's Commentaries by Tucker  (written in 1803, with notes relating the commentaries to the laws of the United States)
• Declaration of Independence, Emory Law School site
• Declaration of Independence, Indiana University Law School site
• Articles of Confederation, Yale Law School site  (includes discussion by Thomas Jefferson from his autobiography and link to the Madison Debates)
• Declarations and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October, 1774
• Documents From The Continental Congress And The Constitutional Convention - Library of Congress
• Articles of Confederation
• Debates in the Convention of 1787, by James Madison  (proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 leading to the adoption of the US Constitution, beginning with the first day....searchable here )
• The Federalist, Emory University (The Federalist Papers...Hamilton and Madison's arguments in support of the proposed US Constitution)
• The Federalist Papers Online, FoundingFathers.info
• FindLaw Constitutional Law Center  (The US Constitution annotated, plus links to materials on the Founding Fathers, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federalist Papers)
• GPO Site...The Constitution Annotated...by the Congressional Research Service
• Web Guide to the Constitution of the United States
• Constitution of the United States of America, National Archives Site
• FindLaw Constitution Search (search engine for the U.S. Constitution)
• Core Documents of U.S. Democracy  (Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, etc)
• National Archives and Records Administration's "Our Documents" - Milestone Documents  (Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, plus many others, such as the Lee Resolution, the Virginia Plan of 1787, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Articles of Confederation, Treaty of Paris, etc)
• James Madison Center, James Madison Archives
• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873  (searchable archive of scanned images and full text of nine separate government documents covering the period from the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the First through Twelfth Federal Congresses. It includes the House Journal, Senate Journal, Annals of Congress, Journals of the Continental Congress, Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Records, Maclay's Journal.)
• Hinds' Precedents of the House Of Representatives of the United States

Supreme Court Decisions :

• Oyez  (RealAudio recordings of well known oral arguments and decision announcements before the Supreme Court)
• Landmark Supreme Court Cases (from Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society)
• CDA Decision of the Supreme Court  (Communications Decency Act)
• USSC+ (database of Supreme Court Decisions dating back to 1953, plus all current term decisions)
• LII (Legal Information Institute) (Cornell...Supreme Court decisions since 1990)
• LII (Legal Information Institute) - Selected Historic Decisions of The Supreme Court
• FedWorld/FLITE Database of Supreme Court Decisions (over 7,000 Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975)
• FindLaw (Supreme Court decision search engine)

Federal Court Homepages and Federal Court Decisions:

• History of the Federal Judiciary  (Federal Judges Biographical Database for all Federal judges since 1789, history of all Federal courts, landmark judicial legislation, topics in judicial history and courthouse photo gallery)
• Supreme Court of the United States  (official homepage of the US Supreme Court, with its docket, rules and full text opinions from the 1999 term)
• FindLaw Federal Circuit Court Opinions  (search engine for U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions)
• Emory University, Federal Courts Finder
• Federal District Court Civil Trials (database of 3.7 million federal district court civil cases terminated over the last 17 years)
• Federal Judiciary Homepage
• Villanova, Federal Court Locator
• Courts.Net (Directory of Federal and State courts)
• United States District Court for the District of Maryland

Federal Court Rules:

• Court Rules, Forms & Dockets  (search engine that includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword)
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules of Procedure
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Local Rules
• U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Local Rules
• U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Local Rules  (downloadable .pdf file)

Federal Laws and Administrative Agency Sites:

• Cornell, Full Text of the U.S. Code
• Search the U.S. Code, Government Printing Office Site
• Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act Resources - U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Information and Privacy
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Resources - Washington State Medical Association
• Whistleblower Resources, Office of Administrative Law Judges' Law Library
• The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA)  (U.S. Department of Labor site...full text of the Act)
• Regulations and Information on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• COBRA Resources - Continuation of Health Insurance Coverage - US Department of Labor
• Firstgov.gov - Government Sponsored Search Engine for Government Sites
• Federal Web Locator, Chicago-Kent College of Law  (one stop shopping point for federal government information on the World Wide Web)
• Government Resources on the Internet
• Infomine, Government Resource Search Engine
• Resource Central, Government Resources
• US Government Documents Ready Reference Collection
• FedWorld Information Network (government site with search engines for finding government Web sites, databases and reports)
• The FDA Search Page  (search the entire Food and Drug Administration web site)
• Social Security Administration, Office of Disability Homepage
• Social Security Handbook  (entire handbook available for download or for viewing on-line--click the "Table of Contents" link)
• Social Security - Online Statement Request Form  (within 3 weeks you can obtain Social Security statement showing complete earnings and Social Security tax history and estimates of retirement, survivors, and disability benefits )
• NOSSCR, National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives  (FAQ on Social Security Disability...This organization runs an excellent lawyer referral service for Social Security lawyers...Not available online, but you can call their toll free number)
• Social Security Advisory Service  (full service, non-governmental site with extensive resources on Social Security, including a news letter and a bulletin board for online discussions, questions and answers)
• Videotape - Preparing For Your Social Security Hearing  (Produced by Social Security vocational expert, Martin Kranitz)
• Severe.Net  (Great resource site on Social Security Disability law and news)
• Article: The Interaction of Workers' Compensation Benefits on Medicare
• Health Care Finance Administration  (Medicare and Medicaid)
• Navigating Medicare and Medicaid (resource guides for people with disabilities, their families, and their advocates)
• Medicare Set Asides

State Courts and State Law Sites (Free Sites) :

• LexisOne - State Resource Center  (links to state government, courts & law sites in all 50 states)
• Courts.Net  (national court directory)
• State and Local Government on the Net  (directory of Web sites for all states having a site)
• State Government Web Sites  (directory of Web sites for all 50 states)
• Rominger Legal  (links to state court resources)
• Municode.Com - Online Municipal Codes  (links to local government municipal codes that have been placed on line - scroll down and click on the map)
• Alalinc, Alabama Court decisions  (telnet registration required first)
• Alaska Legal Resource Center  (Alaska Supreme Court opinions from 1991 to present)
• Arizona Judicial Department  (Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decisions)
• Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Decisions  (1994 to the present only)
• California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal Decisions  (slip opinions for past 60 days only)
• Colorado Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions  (Colorado Bar Association site. Public has only limited access. Colorado Bar members have access back to 1996.)
• Florida Supreme Court Opinions  (September, 1995 to present only)
• Georgia Supreme Court Opinions  (Summaries of opinions from January, 1996 to present only)
• Hawaii Case Law  (Supreme Court and Intermediate Court of Appeals opinions from 1989 to present)
• Idaho Judicial Branch  (Supreme Court and Court of Appeals opinions for past 60 days only)
• Illinois Supreme and Appellate Court Opinions  (going back to May, 1996)
• Indiana Judicial Decisions
• Iowa Judicial Branch - Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Decisions
• Kansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions  (October, 1996 to present)
• Maine Judicial Branch - Court Opinions  (1997 to present)
• Maryland Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals Opinions  (1995 to present)
• Maryland Judicial Branch
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Opinions  (current only)
• Michigan Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Decisions  (Court of Appeals from August 1, 1996 to present and Supreme Court from 10-1-95 to present)
• Minnesota Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions  (February 1996 to present)
• Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Opinions  (1996 to present)
• Montana Supreme Court Opinions  (January, 1997 to present)

General Personal Injury & Damages Sites :

• Title 26, Section 104, U.S. Code (Federal tax law on taxability of workers' compensation and personal injury recoveries)
• IRS Guide to Taxability of Lawsuit Awards and Settlements
• Registered Agent Information
• National Association of Secretaries of State - Registered Agent Sites Nationally
• Internet Prospector - Locating U.S. Corporation Records Online  (links to state corporation databases accessible online)
• Internet Prospector - Corporate Directories Online
• CorpWatch - Guide for Corporate Research on the Internet
• CompaniesOnline.Com (Search engines for companies with an online presence)
• CommerceInc (Searchable database of over 11 million companies, both public and private)
• Hoover's Online (Searchable database of companies)
• Vital Records Information in the United States (information about where to obtain vital records, such as birth, death, marriage certificates and divorce decrees from each state)
• Defense Manpower Data Center - Service Member Lookup for Service Members Civil Relief Act
• A Judges Guide to Service Members Civil Relief Act - PDF Document
• Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act Certificates (U.S. Department of Defense site giving addresses and procedures for obtaining certificates showing a defendant to not be in the military, required under the Soldiers and Sailors Relief Act of 1940 to obtain default judgments)
• Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act Free, Searchable Database of Active Duty Military Personnel
• Military Search (Fee based service that will check for current military membership and provide an affidavit, with a quick turn around)
• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Department of Transportation - Licensing & Insurance System  (database of insurace information for authorized for-hire motor carrier, freight forwarder and property brokers)
• LLRX - Business Filings Databases  (links to state corporate records databases online)
• Manual for Complex Litigation, 3rd Edition, 1995 (Federal Judicial Center) (Downloadable in Adobe Acrobat Format)
• AAJ - Debunking Urban Legends About the Civil Justice System - The McDonald's Scalding Coffee Case and Others
• Mythbuster! - Center for Justice and Democracy - The "McDonald's Coffee Case" And Other Fictions
• Statutes of Limitations in Personal Injury Cases For the Fifty States  (Scroll down the page to see table showing statutes of limitations in all 50 states...Not verified for accuracy)
• Free Advice - Personal Injury Statutes of Limitations  (statutes of limitations for all 50 states for personal injury cases with some code citations - not verified for accuracy)
• MEA Services, Inc.  (Company will trace defendant's liability insurance policies on a no-find no-fee basis)
• A.M. Best Insurance Ratings Online
• Standard & Poor's Insurance Company Ratings
• Duff & Phelps Insurance Company Credit Ratings
• U.S. State Department - Judicial Assistance  (Information for service of process on foreign corporations and the taking of testimony from foreign citizens - Hague Convention information and practical considerations)
• U.S. State Department - Hague Convention
• APS International - International Service of Process
• Internet Law Library - Formerly House of Representatives Law Library - Tort Law
• OSHA Homepage
• OSHA Act of 1970, as Amended, 1990 (with search engine)
• OSHWEB, Index of Occupational Safety and Health Resources
• 1998-99 Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

LITIGATION SITES

• WISQARS - Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (customized injury-related mortality database from the Center for Disease Control)
• Mass Disaster: A Victims' Guide (Arizona State Bar Association)
• Cafe Law, Personal Injury
• Contingent Fees in Personal Injury Litigation  (from the authors of this site)
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Independent Medical Examinations
• Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System
• Life Tables - Vital Statistics of the United States - Current and Back Issues  (downloadable in .pdf format)
• Life Tables - Vital Statistics of the United States - Latest edition  (.pdf format)
• The Longevity Game - Life Expectancy Calculator from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
• Selection, Preparation and Direct Examination of Expert Witnesses  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
• Reference Manual On Scientific Evidence (downloadable manual on judicial management of various types of scientific evidence and expert testimony)
• Scholarly Societies Project - Standards & Specifications Written By Scholarly Societies (invaluable resource containing standards in all areas, industries, etc.)
• Proving Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
• Article: The Valuation of Household Services - Conceptual Issues
• Articles on Proof of Economic Damages in Personal Injury Cases - Vocational Economics, Inc.
• Cross Examining the Plaintiff's Psychiatric Expert  (article by defense attorney)
• Role of the Economist in Calculating Damages in Personal Injury and Death Cases  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
• Qui Tam Litigation  (explanatory article on whistleblower litigation, from the authors of this site)
• Managing Complex Litigation: Class Actions and Mass Torts
• Manual For Complex Litigation, Third Edition (584 page downloadable manual in Adobe, i.e., .pdf format)
• Central Notice (notices of product recalls, class actions, etc.)
• Classactionlitigation.com
• Understanding Mass Personal Injury Litigation (Rand Organization Publication)
• Continuing Legal Education - Online Live Lectures - MdExOnline  (The lecture is delivered via Web site and telephone or live streaming, with CLE credit available)
• Weather Underground  (historical weather data...You must first go to the local area in which you're searching, and then click on the link for historical weather data)
• National Climatic Data Center  (certified weather reports)

Negligence and Auto Tort Sites :

• Allstate Information Exchange (collection of resources, including the MIST [minimal impact soft tissue] Manual, damaging to Allstate Insurance Company in its self-declared war with automobile accident victims and their lawyers)
• Allstate Wants Court to Seal Its Training Manual (Article and links to portions of infamous Allstate Training Manual and Allstate's "Why get a lawyer?" pamphlet)
• CNN - Anderson Cooper - Expose On Insurance Industry's War On Car Accident Victims
• FARS Web, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (The FARS contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality)
• Automobile Litigation (Including Uninsured Motorist Claims and No-Fault Insurance)  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
• Crashtest.Com (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, crash-test data going back to the seventies)
• Determining Vehicle Speeds From Skidmarks
• Low Speed Accidents - Correlating Vehicle Impact Speeds Using Collision Damage Analysis and Expected Injuries - A Case Study
• Auto Crash Data Event Recorders  (article on little known automobile "black boxes," with links to other pages within the site listing the makes of vehicles having these boxes)
• TARO, Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin  (numerous articles on issues involved in accident reconstruction)
• Vehicle Specification Database  (database going back 31 years of key measurements of vehicle models necessary for certain accident reconstruction calculations)
• Preserving and Presenting Evidence in Traffic Accident Cases
• Driver Distraction Internet Forum  (repository of resources on issues surrounding electronic equipment causing distraction to drivers)
• Human Factors - Perception and Reaction
• Cause and Contributing Factors in Traffic Accidents
• Anti-Lock Brakes - Some Good News, Some Bad News
• Lamp Examination to Determine On or Off in a Collision
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - Highway Loss Data Institute  (searchable site...numerous articles and reports on highway and automobile safety issues)
• Society for Automotive Engineers  (Numerous papers and standards available for download)
• Pedestrian Protection at Convenience Stores  (article dealing with motor vehicle dangers in parking areas of convenience stores)
• Vehicle History Report  (vehicle history tracing...for pay service)
• Measurement of Slip Resistance, A Legal and Practical Perspective  (article on technical aspects involved in slip and fall cases)
• The Science Of A Fall - An Advanced Treatise For Attorneys That Represent Consumers Injured In Slip And Fall Incidents  (A presentation prepared for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) and the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum (ICLEF))

Product Liability Sites :

• www.Recalls.gov  (Government sponsored portal site for all product recalls)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Homepage
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Press Releases and Recalls Page  (also contains instructions for subscribing to their email newsletter for recalls)
• Consumer Product Safety Commission Recall  Video Clips   (http://www.cpsc.gov/mpeg.html is link) Video Clips regarding unsafe products
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration - NHTSA - Auto Recalls  (searchable database on automobile recalls)
• Consumer Reports Recalls Page
• Food and Drug Administration Homepage
• Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health  (includes a search engine for medical devices)
• Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health - Search Engine for Registered Devices
• MAUDE, Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience Database  (Searchable database of reports of adverse events involving medical devices. Database consists of all voluntary reports since June, 1993, user facility reports since 1991, distributor reports since 1993, and manufacturer reports since August, 1996)
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (comprehensive listing, with search engine, of manufacturers...handy tool for product liability litigators)
• Vermont Safety Information Resources, Inc., SIRI  (Articles and resources, including Material Safety Data Sheets, MSDS, on safety issues)
• The Products Liability Case  (this is a .pdf file that will load in your browser if you have the Adobe reader installed as a plug-in)
• Vaccine Information and Awareness  (vaccine resources)
• National Vaccine Information Center
• National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Department of Health and Human Services
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Food and Drug Administration
• Search VAERS Database, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
• The Vaccine Page - Vaccine News & Database
• Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services
• NIOSH Alert: Preventing Allergic Reactions to Natural Rubber Latex in the Workplace
• OSHA Technical Information Bulletin - Potential for Allergy to Natural Rubber Latex Gloves and Other Natural Rubber Products.
• Latex Allergy Links  (portal to large number of latex allergy sites on the Web)
• Latex Allergy
• The Chemical Industry Archives  (from the Environmental Working Group... 37,0000 searchable pages of internal company documents discovered during litigation)
• Trade Secrets - PBS Show on Chemical Industry
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry  (Government Site, includes search engine for HazDat Database)
• TSCATS - Toxic Substances Control Act Test Submissions Database  (searchable collection of unpublished technical reports on over 8,000 chemicals submitted by industries to the Environmental Protection Agency since 1985)
• Cornell, Material Safety Data Sheets  (database of 250,000 MSDS, derived from US Dept of Defense and Cornell records)
• Oxford University - Material Safety Data Sheets, Chemical and Other Safety Information
• Vermont Safety Information Resources - MSDS Collection
• MSDS Provider - Manufacturer-Direct Material Safety Data Sheets  (search by manufacturer)
• Material Safety Data Sheets  (links to databases of msds, chemicals, drugs and pesticides)
• Article: Unraveling the Mystery of the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
• ToxNet - Toxicology Data Network - National Library of Medicine  (a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas)
• Extoxnet, The Extension Toxicology Network  (variety of information about pesticides, pesticide information profiles, resources for toxicology information, and technical information)

Medical Sites :

• National Conference of State Legislatures - 50 State Medical Malpractice Tort Law Chart (catalogues the malpractice laws of all 50 states in chart form, including statutes of limitations, but sources tell us it's often misleading and inaccurate)
• Assessing and Evaluating the Malpractice Claim: Practical Considerations - Article Available Only in PDF Format and not html
• The Federal Tort Claims Act: An Overview
• American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons Online  (check the section titled Educational Resources Catalog...many videotapes for sale on various orthopedic topics, including surgical procedures)
• ACEP Online, American College of Emergency Physicians  (resources available on emergency medicine)
• Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons - Guidelines, Statements and Other Publications
• Mammography and the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer ('Lectric Law Library)
• TransMed Network - Breast Diseases - Physicians' Guidelines
• CancerNet - National Cancer Institute - Breast Cancer Treatment - Health Professionals
• Prognostic Factors For Breast Cancer Survival, A Primer For Lawyers
• FDA Mammography Page - Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA)
• Common Obstetrical Complications ('Lectric Law Library)
• Article: Diagnosing and Managing Ectopic Pregnancy
• Article: The Burden of Staphylococcus Aureus Infections on Hospitals in the United States
• Lasik Eye Surgery: US Food and Drug Administration
• Surgical Eyes  (resource site for complications of eye surgery)
• Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection
• American College of Surgeons - Statements and Guidelines
• The Pediatric Database (PEDBASE) (comprehensive alphabetical listing with descriptions of over 550 childhood illnesses)
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases  (bibliography of medical literature citations for pediatric infectious diseases)
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• RMF's Risk Management Library  (resources for risk management and dealing with the medical malpractice arena from a clinical perspective)
• Malpractice Claims - Risk Management Tips and Topics
• Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (U.S. government site providing a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Assisted Living and Nursing Care - American Health Care Association  (Falls and Fall Risk Clinical Practice Guideline, Altered Mental States Clinical Practice Guideline, Dementia Clinical Practice Guideline, Osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline)
• Clinical Geriatrics - Falls and Gait Disturbances
• National Center for Elder Abuse  (funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, the NCEA is a gateway to resources on elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.)
• Member of the Family - National Database of Performance Evaluations of Nursing Homes
• Nursing Home Compare  (detailed information about the performance of every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the USA)
• The Guidelines for Chiropractic Quality Assurance and Practice Parameters (Mercy Guidelines)
• AIM, Association of State Medical Board Executive Directors, DocFinder  (for a limited number of participating states, this site provides a database of physicians with credentials and disciplinary actions)
• Forbes Online, Article on Investigating Physicians' Background for Disciplinary Proceedings
• Federation of State Medical Boards - DocInfo  (40 year old databank of 115,000 physician disciplinary actions recently opened up to public access for a small fee)
• National Practitioner Data Bank  (Yes! It's the home of the notorious federal data bank of medical practitioners...No, you can't access it...Some good statistics, though)
• Public Citizen - Survey of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Medical Board Web Sites
• DoctorFind  (search for physicians)
• DoctorDirectory.Com  (comprehensive directory of physicians listed by geographical location and specialty...also has an advanced search feature allowing searches by last name only or as much information as is available)
• American Board of Medical Specialties - Certified Doctor Verification Service  (searchable database of all physicians certified by a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties. Mirror site available here)
• SearchPointe - Doctor Search - Background Information
• Quackwatch, Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery and Intelligent Decisions
• Federal Anti-Dumping Law

Medical Resource Sites

• NLM's (National Library of Medicine's) Databases & Electronic Information Sources
• Step By Step Guide to Searching PubMed  (tutorial on searching on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed -- the Medline search engine)
• Free Medline Search at National Library of Medicine  (Pub Med and Internet Grateful Med)
• National Library of Medicine, LocatorPlus  (searchable catalog of the National Library of Medicine's books, journals, and audiovisuals as well as access points to other medical research tools)
• National Library of Medicine, MedlinePlus  (large medical resource site)
• Medikeo - Multiple Medical Search Engines  (15 search engines for different areas of medicine... Home page in French, but click to go to each search engine, and you'll be offered an option in English)
• Researching Medical Literature On The Web  (article on where and how to do medical research online)
• How to Search for Medical Information  (another excellent article on where and how to do medical research)
• National Health Information Center - Health Information Resources Database  (huge database of names, real addresses and web addresses of organizations that provide health information)
• The Doe Report: Medical Information, The Internet, and You  (yet another article on medical research on the internet)
• CAPHIS - Consumer & Patient Health Information Section - Health Web Sites You Can Trust
• The Merck Manual, Seventeenth Edition
• The Merck Manual Home Edition Online
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body  (the classic text, together with illustrations and searchable)
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - Illustration Index  (browsable by thumbnails)
• Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body - Subject Index
• Electronic Handbook of Legal Medicine (medical reference guide for litigation professionals - full text version available online - registration required)
• Visible Human Server  (virtual anatomic construction kit on the web with 3D anatomic models)
• Healthgate's Complete Guide to Medical Tests  (searchable or alphabetically arranged guide to over 400 medical tests)
• Common Conversion Factors  (formulas for converting grams, cc's, liters, pounds and other measurements)
• CPT Codes, Physician Procedures Category, Code Or Description  (Search/Conversion engine for CPT codes or physician procedures)
• ICD-9-CM Code Search Engine
• Another ICD-9 Code Search Engine
• AMA Physician Select...Online Doctor Finder  (also provides information on credentials)
• American Board of Medical Specialties  (online verification of board certification of physicians and search engine for specialists)
• Find a Maryland Physician, Maryland Med-Chi Society
• Online Medical Dictionary  (largest online medical dictionary of which we are aware)
• Complete Home Medical Guide - Diagnostic Tests & Procedures
• MedicineNet - Medical Procedures & Tests Index
• Medical Online Glossaries & Resources  (In the site's own words... "The Most Comprehensive Multilingual Listing of Online Medical Dictionaries on the Internet. Over 1,260 links to useful & informative medical & health-related web sites and medical dictionaries in eighteen languages")
• Healthopedia  (In the site's own words, "...a medical and health consumer information resource containing comprehensive and unbiased information in patient-friendly language from trusted sources on over 1,500 health topics.")
• MedicineNet Online Medical Dictionary
• Simplification Guide to Medical Terms  (glossary of medical terms - University of Michigan Medical School)
• Biotech's Life Science Dictionary
• Multilingual Glossary of Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
• Medical Terminology Desk, Alphabetical Glossary of Medical Terminology
• Medical Abbreviations, Medical Dictionary, ICD-9 Search, Drug Search - Medilexicon
• Emedicine Online Textbooks (Free access to online medical textbooks. The emergency medicine text is complete, but there are also texts in progress on many other subjects)
• Medical Textbooks On-Line - Family Practice, Geriatrics, Infectious Disease, and many others
• Virtual ER (emergency medicine resources)
• E-Journal Showcase - Free Electronic Journals in Medicine and Health
• Medical/Health Sciences Libraries on the Web
• Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals
• Free Medical Journals.Com
• Highwire Press, Stanford University  (163,162 free full-text articles and 725,290 total articles from various scientific journals)
• Periodici Biomedici, Biomedical Journals  (alphabetized index and links to biomedical journals on the Web)
• JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association
• The Lancet, Electronic Research Archive
• New England Journal of Medicine  (free email subscription available to receive each issue's table of contents)
• UHS Clinical Pathways  (collection of standardized medical approaches to common clinical problems)
• Multimedia Medical Reference Library
• National Association of Medical Examiners (NAME) Library  (pathology resources - articles, links, guidelines, cause of death tutorial)
• The Virtual Autopsy
• Medical Images and Illustrations  (links to medical image archives)
• Surgical Planning Laboratory-Brigham and Women's Hospital, Radiology Department  (image and movie archive of various parts of the anatomy, plus numerous papers and presentations on various topics in imaging and an anatomy browser applet for viewing 3D models)
• Medifocus  (Research reports for lawyers on selected topics in personal injury and medical malpractice litigation. This is a for pay service.)
• Making It Easier to Read Prescriptions  (article from FDA Consumer magazine about proposals for making it easier to read prescriptions, together with helpful listing of common abbreviations)
• HealthScout  (many helpful articles with the latest news in medical science on various medical issues)
• MedicConsult  (articles and resources on numerous medical conditions, with pulldown menu on front page)
• Virtual Hospital  (articles and resources for the general public and for the medical profession by the University of Iowa Health Care)
• DrKoop.Com  (articles on an assortment of common medical ailments, named after the bearded, former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop)
• Medem - Healthcare Information from the Nations Medical Societies
• NIH - Health Information Index  (information on diseases currently under investigation by NIH or NIH-supported scientists, major NIH research areas, and important health-related topics)
• Medical Matrix  (large indexed site containing clinical medical resources. You must register to enter site, but it's free)
• Medical Legal Web Directory  (large listing of medical-legal web sites)
• MedMark - Medical Bookmarks  (database of web medical resources, searchable and indexed by specialty)
• The Diseases Database  (cross-referenced index of human disease, medications, symptoms, signs, abnormal investigation findings etc. This site provides a medical textbook-like index and search portal.)
• Obstetrical Ultrasound and Prenatal Diagnosis
• Article: Interpretation of the Electronic Fetal Heart Rate During Labor
• Fetal Echocardiography Homepage
• The Use of Electronic Fetal Monitoring - National Electronic Library for Health - Full Text Guideline Collection  (huge collection of citations to articles in the medical literature on electronic fetal monitoring)
• The Global Regional Anesthesia Website  (anesthesia resources...ugly site, but packed with links)
• Interactive Anesthesia Bulletin Board  (post questions and answers on issues in anesthesia)
• American Society of Anesthesiologists; Standards, Guidelines and Statements
• Healthfinder  (U.S. Government health site search engine and index)
• Achoo Internet Health Directory
• Bill's Net World  (topic index of medical sites on the Web)
• HealthAtoZ, The Search Engine for Health and Medicine
• Brain and Mind, Electronic Magazine on Neuroscience
• Neurotrauma Law Nexus (Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries)
• Neuroexam.Com  (Describes itself as: "An interactive online guide to the neurological examination")
• Health Web
• Medscape  (medical news and medical resource metasite)
• Trauma.Org, Care of the Injured  (trauma resources)
• AAST Webnet - The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma  (information regarding all phases of the care of the trauma patient)
• American Trauma Society
• World Wide Wounds  (resource for dressing materials and practical wound management information)
• American Heart Association, Heart and Stroke Resources
• Internet Stroke Center
• Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
• WorldOrtho.com's Electronic Orthopedic Textbook
• Spine Universe  (large resource site for back and neck injuries and impairments)
• Spine-Health.com  (large resource site for back and neck injuries and impairments)
• Yale Heart Book
• Neurosurgery Online  (Official Journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
• Human Anatomy On-line
• Southern California Orthopedic Institute  (orthopedic resources)
• Arthritis and Glucosamine Information Center  (information and resources on arthritis and glucosamine)
• Cancer News on the Net
• Acurian  (state-by-state listings of clinical trials of cutting-edge drugs under investigation both by pharmaceutical manufacturers and/or academic research facilities)
• Martindale's Health Science Guide 2003
• Martindale's The Virtual Medical Center  (huge medical resource site)
• MedWeb - Emory University  (catalog of biomedical and health related web sites maintained by the health science library at Emory University)
• NIH's CHID - Combined Health Information Database  (large, searchable bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government covering 16 topics and providing titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources)
• BioMedNet  (large directory of medical resources by Reed Elsevier)
• InfoRetrieve  (research site ... PubMed, ArticleFinder, Medline, DocSource, article retrieval and delivery)
• MedicineNet  (large, searchable medical resource site)
• CWRU School of Medicine, Medical Resources  (Case Western Reserve University)
• The Medical Algorithms Project  (over 3,000 medical algorithms available for download. A medical algorithm is any computation, formula, survey, or look-up table, useful in healthcare.)
• Index to Algorithms - American Family Physician
• OB-GYN.Net  (obstetric and gynecologic resources)
• The Archives of Sci.Med.Obgyn  (web site for newsgroup sci.med.obgyn)
• U.S. Pharmacopeia  (pharmaceutical resources from The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.)
• Drug Digest  (consumer health and drug information)
• Clinical Pharmacology 2000  (An electronic drug reference and drug therapy management website, requiring registration, but registration is free)
• FDA Drug and Device Product Approvals
• Drugs@FDA  (Searchable database of approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs, together with all documentation and materials pertaining to each, including approval history, gathered together from across FDA's many web pages)
• RxList, The Internet Drug Index
• Dr. Bob's Psychopharmacology Tips
• Pharma-Lexicon  (search engine for huge index of medical and pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations and their definitions)
• Dr. Bob's Mental Health Links
• Walter Reed Army Medical Center...Medical Links
• Burn Information
• Chemical Burns
• American Burn Association
• Geriatric Care - Resources on Geriatric Issues

MEDICAL CONDITIONS & INJURY SITES

• InjuryResources.Com  (excellent resource containing articles on back and neck injuries and pain, whiplash, repetitive stress injuries, low impact injuries, etc.)
• Neurotrauma Law Nexus (Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries)
• Neuropsychology Central (neuropsychology resources)
• Human Brain Tutorial, Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Scranton
• Back Talk (article on low back pain, its causes and treatment options)
• Whiplash101.Com (articles and resources on soft tissue trauma)
• Fibromyalgia Network (educational materials on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome)
• RSDSA, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association of America  (reflex sympathetic dystrophy resources...includes practice guidelines)
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome  (complete information on reflex sympathetic dystrophy)

ADA Sites:

• Department of Justice ADA Homepage
• Americans With Disabilities Act
• JAN, Job Accommodation Network, Points of Interest  (Excellent link page featuring disability resources on the Web)
• Cornell, Disability Law Materials
• ADA and Disability Information
• ADA and Disability Related Resources
• ADA Resources
• National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy (features an ADA Case of the Month plus other ADA cases and resources)
• Enforcement Guidance: Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship Under the Americans with Disabilities Act - EEOC
• DisabilityInfo.Gov  (Created by order of President Bush as part of the New Freedom Initiative directing all federal agencies to cooperate in building a comprehensive interagency Web portal for people with disabilities.)

Workers' Compensation Sites :

• Workers' Compensation (article on workers' compensation laws, in general)
• Disability and the Workplace: An Internet Primer (from Cornell University, Catherwood Library, resources and internet links on disability, workers' compensation, ADA, disability mailing lists, legislation for the disabled, job hunting, etc.)
• Federal Workers Compensation Statutes (Federal Employees' Compensation Act, Black Lung Benefits Act, Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act)
• FedUp Feds (advocacy group for Federal Employee Compensation claimants...Some links to other FECA resources)
• National Association of Federal Injured Workers (another good advocacy group for injured federal workers...resources and a newsletter available with instructions for subscribing at the "Message from the Director" page)
• Federal/Postal Employees' Outreach...Assistance and Talk List (Homepage for mailing list devoted to Federal Workers' Compensation, EEO and other federal employee legal problems and issues)
• Tables Comparing State Workers' Compensation Laws  (part of the Dept. of Labor, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs site...tables are in .pdf format, requiring the Adobe Acrobat reader)
• Impairment.Com  (Guide on the use of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment)
• Article: Understanding and Interpreting Spinal Injuries in Compliance with the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Fifth Edition, 2001
• Independent Medical Examinations  (explanatory article)
• Typing Injury FAQ  (not a FAQ at all, but a site with articles on repetitive stress injuries)
• Cumulative Trauma Disorders  (article by defense attorney)
• Hurt On The Job (Reprint of Newsday Article)
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles, U.S. Department of Labor
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Alternative Site
• Workers' Compensation, What You Need to Know  (brief article on workers' compensation)

Legal Resource, Research, and Search Sites :

• Library of Congress - Guide to Law Online (deeply indexed site containing links to Federal and State law)
• Finding Court Opinions on the Web - The National Law Journal
• U.S. Government Documents (large collection of government documents available for download or on-line viewing, Columbia University Library)
• American Law Sources On Line (links to laws of all 50 States)
• Hieros Gamos - Legal Research Center  (legal portal site, with numerous directories of lawyers, organizations, experts, legal news and research sites)
• Instacase (summaries and links to the full text of the latest court decisions from the Supreme Court, the Third Circuit, and nine states)
• Villanova, State Court Locator
• Maryland Judiciary Homepage
• Chicago-Kent, State Web Locator (listing of state government sites)
• Robert's Rules of Order  (official site to order the book...The rules themselves are not online, but there is a question and answer forum)
• The Legal List, Law Related Resources on the Internet and Elsewhere  (massive textual list of law related resources)
• GSU Meta Index for US Legal Research
• Howard University Law Library, Internet Legal Resources, Find- it Search
• Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
• St. Louis University...Law on the Web  (large listing of law links)
• CataLaw (large topical index for law sites on the internet)
• USLawBooks.Com (free law textbooks)
• Emory Law Library Reference Desk (contains search engine)
• Law Crawler (legal search engine)
• LawGuru.Com Multi-Search  (search multiple legal resource databases from one interface)
• Law.Com (legal resource links)
• LawsOnline (another site featuring legal resource links)
• Texas Law Librarians' Home Page (legal links and resources)
• The-Legal-Link
• WashLaw Web, Washburn University School of Law (massive topical index of legal sites on the Web, with a search engine)
• FindLaw   (legal resource search engine)
• WWW Virtual Law Library - Indiana University School of Law
• 'Lectric Law Library
• Yahoo-Law
• Nolo's Encyclopedia
• Legal Engine  (Meta search engine for legal resources on the Web)
• The Law Engine  (Not a search engine, but rather, an indexed listing of legal links)
• LexisOne  (Provided by the legal research firm, Lexis, this site enables free search and retrieval of state and federal case law for the past 5 years as well as legal forms. You must register to obtain the full text of cases, but registration is free.)
• Jury Verdict Research Using the Internet  (Article about resources for searching for jury verdicts on the internet)
• MoreLaw.Com  (Searchable database of jury verdicts and settlements)
• Law and Policy Institutions Guide  (well-organized portal for quality legal and legislative information, including international treaties, journals, legal databases and other useful sources for legal research on the Internet.)

Law Reviews and Journals :

• Online Directory of Law Reviews
• Contents Pages From Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals  (Tables of Contents for 750 Law Reviews at University of Texas, Tarlton Law Library)
• University Law Review Project  (full text search engine of law journals on the internet, plus indexed listing of law reviews by topic)
• Legal Journals on the Web  (massive listing of on-line law journals by the University of Southern California Law Library)
• FindLaw Law Review Search
• WashLaw Web (Washburn University School of Law), Law Journals  (links to law journals on the Web, with a keyword search engine)
• LawResearch.com, Law Journals  (links to law journals on the Web)

Legal Dictionaries and Glossaries :

• Duhaime's Legal Dictionary
• Oran's Legal Dictionary, West Publishing
• Bouviers Law Dictionary 1856 Edition
• Black's Law Dictionary  (abbreviated version)
• Nolo Press, Everybody's Dictionary
• The 'Lectric Law Library's Legal Lexicon--Terms, Definitions & Explanations
• A Layman's Guide to Legal Terms
• Law.Com Legal Dictionary

Lawyer Locating Sites :

• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyers.Com
• FindLaw's Find A Lawyer - Search Engine
• LawyerFinder

Legal Forms Sites:

• Court Forms, FindLaw  (large collection of Federal and State Court forms in .pdf format)
• US Court Forms
• HIPAA Forms
• Forms Room, 'Lectric Law Library
• Forms Links, Washburn University
• LawSmart, Legal Documents and Forms  (form search engine included)
• Uncle Sam, Forms From the Feds  (links to sites with downloadable government forms)
• Social Security Forms Online
• Legal Forms Index (general forms, such as powers of attorney, releases, affidavit, promissory note)
• FindForms.Com  (searchable database of legal forms)
• Hieros Gamos - Legal Forms
• Free Legal Forms For Lawyers  (free legal forms for corporate, business and securities lawyers)
• LexisOne Free Forms  (You must register to obtain the forms, but registration is free.)
• Real Estate Forms  (leases, deeds, contracts...some free and some for a charge)
• Legal Forms USA  (another fee based service)
• All Law Legal Forms
• Internet Legal Resource Guide - Forms
• Bankruptcy Forms - US Courts Web Site
• FormsGuru.Com
• Copyright Law Forms  (By using LegalZoom you can register a copyright at your convenience by answering a few questions online and sending in a copy of your work. This service will even file the applications for you with the appropriate government agency.)

Legal News:

• National Law Journal Online
• Lawyers Weekly
• Lawyers Weekly, Virginia Edition
• Law Journal Extra News
• The Daily Record  (Maryland legal and business news)
• Court TV Online
• The Mining Company, Law News Highlights
• ACLU Civil Liberties News Wire
• Business Law Today  (ABA Business Law Section magazine)
• Bytes In Brief  (business and technology law news)
• Law News Network.Com
• Documents In The News  (University of Michigan Documents Center, archive of documents at the center of news events, organized by year, along with a search engine)
• Law Street Journal  (current legal news)
• Celebrity Court  (part of the Law Street site, it provides legal news involving celebrities, with an alphabetical index of celebrity names)
• NACDL News/Media Index  (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, new cases and news of interest to criminal attorneys)
• Documents in the News  (archive of documents in the news back to 1995)

Expert Witnesses:

• The Online Directory of Expert Witnesses  (free and searchable)
• Finding and Investigating Expert Witnesses  (article on how to go about finding, researching and selecting expert witnesses)
• Finding an Expert Through the Internet  (up to date article on how to find experts on the internet)
• Expert Pages  (free, indexed and searchable directory of experts)
• NLJ (National Law Journal) Experts - The NLJ Litigation Services Network
• ExpertLaw.Com  (Expert Witness Directory)
• ExpertFind  (free directory of experts)
• Directory of Expert Witness Directories
• Experts.Com  (searchable directory of experts)
• Findlaw's Expert Directory  (listing of web sites of individual experts and expert finding firms)
• Expertsearch.Com - Expert Witness Index  (plug in the name of an expert, and you can search for cases in which he/she has appeared...It appears you must then contact and purchase the case summary from this service)
• Sources and Experts  (A reporter's listing of expert sources for the media...Potentially useful in some areas of litigation as well)

General Interest & Other Useful Resources:

• Famous American Trials  (RealAudio...The story of twelve of the most famous trials in American history)
• LemonLawOffice.Com  (A great resource for locating a lemon law attorney in any state or to find your state's lemon laws, FAQs, or Hot Lemon Tips)
• All Personal Injury Lawyers   (directory of personal injury and malpractice lawyers)
• Legal Jobs  (Attorneys, paralegal, secretaries and law firm administrators can take advantage of this site's free job searching and resume posting services)