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Internet Legal Issues and Research Jones Director and Professor Florida State University College of Law Library fejones@law.fsu.edu Faye Acknowledgements  Florida State University Law Library    Mary McCormick, J.D., M.S.  Assistant Director for Public Services Reference Librarian Margaret Clark, M.S.  Marin Dell, J.D., M.S.  Reference Librarian  U.S. Department of Defense  ARPA/DARPA, http://www.darpa.mil/body/arpa_darpa.html Internet Legal Issues Internet Legal Issues    E-commerce  Contracts, Intellectual Property, Privacy, Cybercrime E-discovery issues and metadata E-data from automobile black boxes  Is Your Car Spying on You?  MVEDRs    Ethical issues  Risks of law firm websites, blogs and email Ex parte communication  Mullins v. Department of Commerce, 06-3284 (C.A. Fed Circuit, May 4, 2007) E-lawyering  LegalXML, http://www.legalxml.org/about/index.shtml Keeping up with the Joneses, Esq.  Blogs & RSS feeds   DennisKennedy.com  Feedblitz Tech Law Prof Blog  Google To Offer Deep Government Info for Four States   California, Arizona, Utah and Virginia To Googlize inaccessible data in state electronic files  Search engines  Google and 47+ others  Internet legal research Florida Electronic Library  http://www.flelibrary.org/  Available resources include electronic magazines, newspapers, almanacs, encyclopedias, and books, providing information on topics such as current events, education, business, technology, and health issues. FloridaLawHelp.org FloridaLawHelp.org  http://www.floridalawhelp.org/FL/index.cfm Links to a Legal Services Directory for the State of Florida, as well as a list of collected information materials from agencies and legal clinics throughout Florida.  Caselaw – Where to Find It for Free US Supreme Court: Official Slip Opinions: http://www.supremecourtus.gov Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu LexisONE: http://www.lexisone.com/ (Click on “Find Cases for Free”) US Circuit Courts: Office of US Courts: http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html Federal Courts Finder: http://law.emory.edu/caselaw/ US District Courts: Office of US Courts: http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/districts.html Pacer      http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/ Electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records Free written opinions Federal case statistics Party/Case Index LexisOne  http://www.lexisone.com/ Use the LexisNexis® Research Service to access U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1790 to present, as well as federal and state cases decided within the last five years. (selected coverage)  Florida Supreme Court website  http://www.floridasupremecourt.org/decisions/ index.shtml Also provides links to District Court of Appeals opinions and Court Rules.  Justia   http://www.justia.com/ Free legal information on practice areas   Cases Regulation tracker, a free searchable database of Federal Register Regulations, Proposed Rules and Notices Online Sunshine  http://www.leg.state.fl.us/  Links to Florida legislation, including the Florida Statutes, the Laws of Florida and the Florida Constitution. LII/Legal Information Institute  http://www.law.cornell.edu/ The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. Wex: a collaboratively-created, publicaccess law dictionary and encyclopedia.   Municode.com  http://www.municode.com   Online Library with U.S. municipal/county ordinances Pamphlets for selected state analysis by Municode Forms.gov Forms.gov  http://forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal  Federal Forms listed by form number, agency and “frequently used” forms. USCourtforms.com U.S. Courtforms  http://www.uscourtforms.com/   Court, Legal & Business Forms Available in non-fillable PDF format Federal, State and Local County Forms in all practice areas. Florida State Courts website – Family Law Forms/Rules & Opinions  http://www.flcourts.org/ Family law forms for use in dissolution, paternity, child support, name change, and grandparent visitation cases. The forms are up-to-date, in engrossed (ready to use) format, with all amendments incorporated.  Internet Legal Research Group  http://www.ilrg.com/forms/  Over 2000 free legal forms, a number of forms are adapted for state-specific use. ‘Lectric Law Library  http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html   Business & General - dealing with subjects like Real Estate, Corporations, Employment, Contracts, Trusts and Wills. Legal Practice - focusing on Law Practice Management, Litigation and related matters. FindLaw FindLaw.com  http://public.findlaw.com/library/statelaws.html Legal information portal for the general public; contains links to forms, state and federal legislation and a legal dictionary.  LLRX.com  http://www.llrx.com/resources7.htm  Legal information portal with links to a legal resource center, legal articles and law related listservs. MegaLaw.com  http://www.megalaw.com/states.php  Legal portal with state specific legal resource pages. LawSource  http://www.lawsource.com/  The home of American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!), providing a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada, as well as Mexican sources. Where to find briefs  http://www.legaline.com/freebriefslinks.html  Portal linking to free Internet sites with searchable state and federal briefs. FSU Law Library Free Internet Research Page  http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/databases/publicl egalinfo.html International Law        http://www.asil.org/ http://lexmercatoria.net/ Human rights International business transactions Arbitration Maritime law Taxation Tips for Creating a Practice Library  Organize bookmarks of most frequently used sites by jurisdiction, function and subject    MFU-FL MFU-FRM MFU-FAM    Review daily client schedule and pull up relevant bookmarks for that day Download or cut/paste frequently used forms for quick use Check sites often for new content and functionality Need More Help?   Inter Alia weblog, http://www.inter-alia.net/ Zimmerman’s Guide: http://www.lexisone.com/zimmermanguide/index.html An online legal encyclopedia providing definitions, examples, explanations and useful links  The Virtual Chase How-To Guides: http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/court_records.html An annotated guide to sources of information on various types of legal research