- State Bar CLE Books: State Bar of Wisconsin CLE Books provides Wisconsin attorneys practical reference books to comprehensive treatises on complex areas of the law.
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- ABA's Lawlink: Quick access to legal resources, including courts, state resources, legal organizations, and more.
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- American College of Trial Lawyers' Codes of Trial & Pretrial Conduct: The American College of Trial Lawyers Codes of Trial and Pretrial Conduct are part of the College's mandate to improve and elevate standards of trial practice, the administration of justice, and the ethics of the profession. These codes are cited by courts and disciplinary agencies as setting forth reasonable behavioral and ethical standards for lawyers engaged in pretrial and trial activities.
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- American Lawyer Media's Law.com: American Lawyer Media's law.com is the Web's leading legal news and information network. Law.com connects legal professionals to more than 20 award-winning national and regional legal publications online, and delivers top legal news electronically to a growing national and global audience of subscribers each day on The Newswire.
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- Board of Bar Examiners: In addition to identifying people who should, and should not, be granted licenses to practice law in Wisconsin, the Board of Bar Examiners helps to protect consumers by monitoring lawyers’ compliance with rules for continuing legal education.
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- CaseLaw Express™: WisBar's CaseLaw Express™ is a free email service that keeps you abreast of recent cases that have been added to WisBar's case law archives.
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- CLE Books & Seminars: The State Bar of Wisconsin is the leading provider of legal resources in Wisconsin. Comprehensive substantive legal books, timely CLE seminars, and staff training and client education videotapes are just some of the resources to help you keep current, hone your skills, and efficiently manage your practice.
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- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
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- Department of Justice: An extensive and well-organized collection of resources concerning Criminal Law. This site provides access to Bureau of Justice Statistics, international, federal, and state criminal justice agencies, drug and alcohol information, police resources, prison materials and much more.
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- Federal Agency Decisions: Administrative decisions and other actions by agency, collected by the University of Virginia Library.
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- Federal Communication Commission (FCC): The official site of the FCC contains an extensive collection of FCC documents, as well as information on FCC activities and auctions. Often FCC documents are available through this site well before they are available in print. The site also provides links to the FCC's Gophers and FTP servers.
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- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): The FDIC is "the independent deposit insurance agency created by Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's banking system." Its site offers banking industry news, information on assets and products for sale by the FDIC, laws and regulations applicable to financial institutions, and consumer information.
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- Federal Statutes: Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute provides access to federal statutes.
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- Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. This site provides an extensive set of links to consumer and business publications, as well as FTC news releases.
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- FedLaw: Administered by the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, FedLaw contains multiple resources including statutes, court links, and hundreds of links to federal agencies, acts, and other legal research.
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- FindLaw: FindLaw has everything - full-text Supreme Court and Court of Appeals decisions, links and discussion groups organized by substantive area of law, as well as links to law schools and online law journals.
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- GovEngine.com: Comprehensive directory of official federal, state, and local government and court links.
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- GPO Access: A repository of documents from the three branches of the federal government, including the U.S. Code, the Congressional Code, the Federal Register, and more.
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- Hmong-English legal glossary: Developed in conjunction with the Director of State Courts Office, this glossary defines more than 800 common court terms and suggests equivalent Hmong phrases for many of them. It defines both general court terms and specific terms for criminal, juvenile, family, eviction, small claims, probate, and deportation cases.
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- Internet Legal Resource Guide (ILRG): This site advertises itself as the Internet's largest collection of free legal forms. ILRG's legal "forms archive" offers an extensive collection of attorney-drafted forms, as well as links to law firms offering collections of online forms. Format varies, depending on the source of the form. Additional links to forms available for a fee.
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- Introduction to Legal Materials: A Manual for Non-Law Librarians in Wisconsin: Provided by the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin, this manual offers a clear and concise explanation of basic sources - both print and electronic - used in federal and Wisconsin legal research for judicial, legislative, and administrative law. There is also a section on foreign, international, and comparative law, a list of print and electronic reference resources, information on fee-based electronic resources, a section on how to read legal citations, and more.
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- LeapLaw: This for-fee search engine and service provides business law resources, model legal forms, best practice tips, and "how-to" instructions for common legal procedures sought by lawyers and paralegals working in solo practice, law firms, and in-house legal departments. The knowledge base can be customized to incorporate company or firm-approved information.
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- Legal Information Institute: An all-purpose site, the Legal Information Institute includes links to all U.S. law school sites, hypertext versions of the U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, and Federal Rules of Evidence, as well as an "About Law" section with overviews and links for over 100 legal topics.
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- LegalEthics.com: News and ethics opinions as well as government ethics bodies.
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- LexisONE: This site advertises itself as the resource for small law firms, with more than 6,000 free forms. Free forms are listed by topic and jurisdiction, and include many forms produced by the state and federal government. The free forms listed for Wisconsin are mainly the Wisconsin State Circuit Court forms. The bulk of the forms are available for a fee, including automated forms using HotDocs software. You must register with the site to browse or use the free forms; there is no fee associated with registration.
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- LLRX.com: LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing, and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources, and tools, since 1996.
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- Loislaw: Online legal research for-fee services.
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- National Center for State Courts: Research Division: Building on the mission of the National Center for State Courts, "Promoting Justice Through Leadership and Service to State Courts," the Research Division creates opportunities to support states in their efforts to improve the administration of justice by identifying trends, shaping future developments, and fostering adaptation to change.
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- Office of Lawyer Regulation: The Office of Lawyer Regulation is responsible for investigating attorneys who may have violated the rules governing attorney conduct, established by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
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- PACER Service Center: The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.
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- Regulations.gov: Search for, review, and comment on proposed rules that have been published in the Federal Register.
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- Research & reports: The State Bar of Wisconsin consistently researches various practice management issues, including economics of practice and technology.
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- Science.gov: A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research, technical reports, journal citations, databases, and government Web sites.
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- SocraticLaw: This for-fee service will search for court trial transcripts for you from the Delaware Chancery Court and Supreme Court. Transcripts from the Federal District Court for Delaware will be available soon, and the company has plans to add content from other state and federal courts beyond the Delaware Valley.
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- St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project: Records for cases from American history, including Lewis and Clark/corps of discovery cases, freedom from slavery suits, fur trade cases, and Native American cases. Includes displays of original handwritten papers such as petitions, affidavits, depositions, and evidentiary documents.
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- TheLaw.net: For-fee, economical legal research services.
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- U.S. Code: Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute provides access to the official U.S. Code.
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- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: The official site of the Department of Health and Human Services provides access to an extensive collection of articles on this department, a staff directory, as well as information on grant and other programs administered by the Department. Links to other related Internet sites are provided.
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- U.S. Department of Labor: The department's Web page includes links to the Web pages of other related agencies, an online guide to small business administration and workplace posters (in electronic version), as well as other labor news.
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: This site provides a wealth of links to sources of U.S. Environmental Law, as well as general information regarding the activities of the EPA. The site also provides access to those parts of the Federal Register and the U.S. Code relating to Environmental Regulation. Access to EPA Press releases, major speeches of EPA officials, and newly proposed environmental regulations is also provided.
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- U.S. Food & Drug Administration: The official site of the Food and Drug Administration provides general information about the FDA and its programs. Particularly noteworthy is its "FDA News" section which provides access to articles on the latest information from the FDA.
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- U.S. National Labor Relations Board: The NLRB's site explains how to file a charge or petition, and provides information about other state and federal agencies that can assist people with employment-related problems. The site contains summaries of NLRB cases, decisions, and orders.
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- U.S. Public and Private Laws: Public and private laws are prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). GPO Access contains the text of public and private laws enacted from the 104th Congress to the present.
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- U.S. Sentencing Commission: The site of this independent agency, whose function is to develop and monitor sentencing policies for federal courts, contains the full text of reports to Congress, as well as hearing testimony and transcripts and sentencing statistics by state.
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- Uniform Commercial Code: Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute provides access to the Uniform Commercial Code.
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- USDA Economics and Statistics System: The USDA Economics and Statistics System contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
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- WashLaw Web: Links to a variety of legal resources, including court Web sites, new law books, state law resources, primary law and more. Updated frequently.
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- Westlaw: One of the leading online legal research for-fee services.
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- Wisconsin Acts: The Wisconsin Acts, from the Revisor of Statutes Bureau.
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- Wisconsin Court Interpreter Roster: Roster of court-certified, provisional, and trainee interpreters for the Wisconsin court system. Includes foreign language, as well as American Sign Language, interpreters.
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- Wisconsin State Law Library: Access statutory, administrative and case law for federal, state and tribal jurisdictions. Browse extensive Legal Topics to find informational websites and applicable primary law. Visit User Services to learn how to borrow books by mail, use the library after hours, register for CLE classes, request photocopies, rent rooms, etc.
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- WisPolitics.com: "Wisconsin's premier news service" features interviews with Wisconsin politicians, a statewide political events calendar, and an archive of press releases.
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- Zimmerman's Research Guide: Zimmerman's research guide contains descriptions of various areas of law, state information, and more, with links for more information.
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