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	Legal links are made available for educational purposes only. This information should not be interpreted as legal advice.  Good Starting Points See also the library's links to Law Libraries  For additional resources in this subject area, see the library's LegalTrac and Government databases, as well as the "Law" publications in the library's Gale Virtual Reference Library database.

• FindLaw
  Search FindLaw's categories, subcategories and annotations. Or, to broaden your search to other legal Web sites, use LawCrawler, easily accessible from FindLaw's site.

• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
  A good source for finding out how different countries treat issues such as intellectual property, environmental law, trade, etc.

• Guide to Law Online
  Prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress, this site is an annotated, hypertext guide to worldwide sources of information on government and law, available at no cost.

• Lawguru.com — Legal Research Page
  Links to dozens of searchable law-related databases.

• Laws Online
  Links to a wide range of documents and organizations at the federal, state and local level.

• Legal Engine
  This metasite, a good starting point for doing research for online legal information, includes federal, state, and local resources.

• Legal Information Institute
  A comprehensive site provided by Cornell University Law School.

• Nolo Press
  Nolo Press publishes law books for the lay person, and their site contains a great deal of useful information excerpted from these publications.

• Local

• Municipal / County Codes on the Internet

• State

• State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

• Federal

• Code of Federal Regulations

• Federal Register
  This site contains the rules, proposed rules and notices of federal agencies as well as executive orders.

• Federal Rules of Evidence

• THOMAS
  New, pending and some past federal legislation.

• United States Code

• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
  This site contains statements, messages and other Presidential materials released by the White House.

• Constitution of the United States

• Supreme Court of the United States

• Current and Former Supreme Court Justices

• Oyez Project
  Find abstracts and written opinions of Supreme Court cases on this Web site sponsored by Northwestern University.

• Supreme Court Decisions
  FindLaw's searchable database of cases from 1893 to the present.

• County Courthouses
  Includes addresses and telephone numbers for county courthouses across the United States.

• Fairfax County Courts
  Includes links to the Circuit Court, General District Court and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.

• Federal Court Locator
  Provides links to the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals and District Courts, including the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

• State Courts

• U.S. Courts
  Includes information about the federal court system. Also includes a map which delineates the federal judicial districts. Clicking on the map will direct you to the Web sites of the federal courts in a particular circuit or district.

• Virginia Courts
  Includes links to the Supreme Court of Virginia, Court of Appeals of Virginia, Circuit Courts, General District Courts and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts.

• Legal Dictionaries Online

• Fairfax Bar Association Lawyer Referral and Information Service

• Legal Services of Northern Virginia

• Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
  Includes lawyers in private practice or employed by governments or corporations.

• Virginia State Bar

• Attorney Records Search
  Provides information about attorneys licensed in Virginia who have been publicly disciplined since 1991. Information includes the type of action taken, status and the VSB order. Site also includes a second search option to determine if an attorney in private practice is without malpractice insurance.

• Lawyer Referral Service

• West Legal Directory
  FindLaw provides information from this directory of lawyers in private practice or employed by governments or corporations.

Forms

• Findlaw Forms
  This free site offers state and federal court forms in PDF format. The federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. The state collection includes court forms on various topics.

• LawSmart: Free Legal Form Samples
  Free access to legal forms arranged by area of law and by state.

• Virginia's Judicial System Forms
  This site offers VA Circuit Court forms and VA District Court forms in PDF format. Other supplemental forms are also available.

• Cornell University Law School's Intellectual Property Links
  Covers copyright, patent and trademark law.

• European Patent Office
  This database contains information from patent applications published in more than 50 countries. The coverage of the applications depends both on the issuing country and the time period.

• Google Patent Search
  Google patents provides full-text searching of U.S. patents from 1790 through the middle of 2006.

• U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
  Here you will find links to key copyright publications including informational circulars, application forms for copyright registration and links to copyright law and regulations. In addition, search copyright information by selecting one of the three databases: registered works, serials and documents, which contain records of registrations and ownership documents since 1978.

• U.S. Patent and Trade Office: Patent Full-Text Database
  This database includes all U.S. patents and images issued since 1790. Patents issued between 1790 and 1975 are searchable only by patent number, issue date or U.S. classification. Full-text searching is provided for patents issued from 1976 to the present.

• U.S. Trademark Electronic Search System
  Search TESS for federal trademarks that are pending, registered or dead.

• Code of Virginia

• Fairfax County Code of Ordinances

• Fairfax City Code of Ordinances

• Falls Church City Code of Ordinances

• Herndon Code of Ordinances

• Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry
  Part of the Virginia State Police Web site.

• Virginia Administrative Code
  Search via the Legislative Information System.

• The Virginia Judicial System
  The official Web site.

• Virginia Online Codes
  Search the codes of Virginia counties and municipalities.

• Virginia Register of Regulations