These links were used for a training session
on internet legal research for Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Maine's Legal Services
for the Elderly, and the Volunteer Lawyers Project, and periodically updated.
If you find an expired link, or a site that is no longer good
let
us know. If you know of a fantastic site for legal or factual research
useful to poverty law or elder law workers, let us know and we will keep
expanding the list.
Maine Law Sites
Other State Law Sites
Federal Law Sites
Foreign Law Sites
Consumer Law
Disability Law
Education Law
Elder Law
Employment Law
Family Law
Health Law
Housing Law
Immigration Law
Native American Law
Social Security
Welfare Law
Lawyer and Legal Services Sites
General Legal Sites
General Information Sites
Maine Law Sites
Board of Overseers
of the Bar (includes recent ethics opinions and a .pdf version of the
Code of Professional Responsibility)
Cleaves
Law Library (SJC section includes Administrative Orders, Rules Amendments
and miscellaneous announcements)
Division
of Administrative Hearings (Maine DOL - includes "File an Appeal,"
"Preparing for a Hearing," "Rules, Procedures & Statues," etc.)
Online
Rules of Maine State Government Agencies
Maine
Constitution and Laws
Maine
State Legislature
Senate Legislative
Record 118th Legislature (Word docs)
House Legislative Record 118th Legislature (Word docs)
Senate Legislative Record 119th Legislature (Word docs)
House Legislative Record 119th Legislature (Word docs)
Senate
Legislative Record 120th Legislature(Word docs)
House Legislative Record 120th Legislature (Word docs)
Senate
Legislative Record 121st Legislature(Word docs)
House Legislative Record 121st Legislature (Word docs)
Senate Legislative Record 122d Legislature (Word docs)
House Legislative Record 122d Legislature (Word docs)
Senate Legislative Record 123rd Legislature (Word docs)
House Legislative Record 123rd Legislature (Word docs)
Session Laws
Maine
Rules: Civil Procedure (.pdf)
Maine
Rules: Appellate Procedure (.pdf)
Maine
Rules: Small Claims Procedure (.pdf)
Maine
State Law and Legislative Reference Library
Maine's
Administrative Procedure Act
Municipal
Ordinances On Line (from MMA)
State
of Maine Home Page
State
of Maine Judicial Branch
Decisions
Small Claims Court
Uniform Maine
Citations (published by Maine Law Review)
Other State Law Sites
Court
Websites (National Center for State Courts)
Full
text statutes and legislation on the internet
Washburn
University Law School - Search State Statutes
State Statutes by Topic
(Legal Information Institute)
State Statutes by State
(Legal Information Institute)
Federal Law Sites
Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal
Rules of Evidence
District
of Maine
Maine
Federal District Court Local Rules
District of Maine (search opinions)
United
States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maine (local rules, forms,
statistics, and lots of good bankruptcy info)
United
States Court of Appeals 1st Circuit (Emory Law School)
Findlaw
US Federal Laws (searchable Constitution, Code, CFR, FR, Recent Supreme
Court, Recent Circuit Courts)
1st
Circuit (since 1995 - searchable)
CFR
(searchable)
Federal
Register (search or browse)
FedLaw
(GSA) (includes USC)
GPO
Access (multiple database search)
Circuit
Court Jurisdiction Map
Federal
Judiciary Home Page
Foreign Law Sites
Judicial
Assistance (State Department info on service of process,
obtaining evidence, enforcement of judgments and more in foreign jurisdictions)
Global Information Network (from the Library of Congress)
Canadian
Federal Child Support Guidelines
Canadian
Divorce Act
Canadian
Law Library (LexUM, University of Montreal)
Biblioteca Juridica Virtual
Guide to Electronic
Resources for Mexican Law
Legal
Aid Around the World
Consumer Law
Consumer
Agencies and Organizations (State, Federal and international- from Consumer
World)
FTC Consumer
Protection (Consumer Education, Statutes and Opinion Letters)
Kelley's Blue Book (automobile
prices)
Maine
Attorney General's Consumer Law Guide
National Consumer Law
Center
Uniform
Commercial Code (Legal Information Institute - includes links to state
statutes)
Uniform
Commercial Code (Maine statute)
Disability Law
ABA
Commission on Mental & Physical Disability Law
Mental
& Physical Disability Law Reporter
ADA
Library
Department
of Justice ADA home page
Disability
Law (Legal Information Institute - Cornell)
Education Law
Legal Rights of Children (Maine resources from KIDS Legal)
Families
and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE - includes some IDEA court
decisions)
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates
Educational Resources Information Center
Legal
Information Institute - Education Law
Maine
Department of Education -- Special Education
National
Center for Education Statistics
National Information Center for Children and Youth
With Disabilities
A
Parent's Guide to Special Ed / Special Needs (Council on Disability
Rights)
Wrights Law On-line newsletter about special
education advocacy
U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs
U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights
Elder Law
HHS
Administration on Aging
Elder Law Resources (Wake Forest University)
Senior
Law - Elder Law and Legal Resources
Maine
Office of Elder Services
Medicare Part D (from Maine's Legal
Services for the Elderly)
Elder Abuse (from Maine's
Legal Services for the Elderly)
Employment Law
Department of Labor
eLaw Advisors
Wage and Hour
(FLSA)
Family and Medical Leave Act (DOL)
Division
of Administrative Hearings (Maine DOL - includes "Preparing for
an Appeals Hearing")
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Maine Employee Rights Guide (Maine Department of Labor)
Family Law
Family Law Institute Links
(From MSBA Family Law Institute CLE)
ABA Section
of Family Law (Family Law Quarterly has table info on law in every state)
ABA Commission
on Domestic Violence
Canadian
Federal Child Support Guidelines
Canadian
Divorce Act
DivorceNet (state
summaries and interactive bulletin boards on many topics)
US Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women
Maine Child
Support Guidelines (.pdf file)
Uniform
Matrimonial, Family and Health Laws
Vital
Records Information
Health Law
Rules Governing Consumer Directed Personal
Care Assistance Services (a large .pdf from the Maine DOL Bureau of Rehabilitation
Services) 
Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant Laws and Regulations
Medicaid
Consumer Network(State
by State descriptions and plans)
National
Health Law Program
NHeLP's
Library
State Health
Facts Online (a good, easy to use, comprehensive site)
Housing Law
Community Connections Information
Center (HUD)
HUD
Library (browse or search statutes, regs, handbooks, letters, legal
opinions, etc.)
Section 8 Voucher Program Handbook
National Fair Housing Advocate
National
Housing Law Project
Rights of Tenants
in Maine (Pine Tree's client education handbook)
Maine State Housing Authority
Immigration
Law
Legal Guide for Immigrants to Maine
ACLU
Immigrants Rights Project
Executive Office for
Immigration Review (DOJ)
Citizenship and Immigration
Service
Immigration
Law on the Web
Immigration Law
Handbook
Immigration Forms and Fees
Immigration Judge
Bench Book
National
Immigration Law Center
Office of Administrative
Law Judges Law Library: Immigration Collection
Native American
Law
Handbook of Federal
Indian Law by Felix S. Cohen
ICWA - California Judges Bench Guide (by CILS)
Indian
Child Welfare Act (Legal Information Institute - Cornell)
Indian
Law (Legal Information Institute - Cornell)
National
Indian Law Library (NARF)
Native American Constitution
and Law Digitization Project (University of Oklahoma & NARF)
Native American Law(New England
School of Law)
Native American
Law Review (U of Oklahoma - index only on line)
Tribal Court Clearinghouse
Social Security
Legal Information Institute's
Social Security Library
Social
Security Administration
Social
Security and Acquiescence Rulings
Social Security Handbook
SSI Rulings
Welfare Law
National Center for Law and Economic
Justice
Disabilities and Welfare
On-line
rules of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services
The Finance Project
Information Resource Center
Lawyer and Legal
Services Sites
ABANet
Discussion Groups
Management Information Exchange
National
Legal Aid and Defender Association
Center
for Law and Social Policy
Sargent Shriver National
Center on Poverty Law (formerly Clearinghouse)
General Legal
Sites
University
Law Review Project (full text search of law journals on the internet)
Martindale-Hubbell Glossary
of Legal Terms (based on Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Law)
Legal
Information Institute (Cornell)
Basic Legal Citation
GSU
MetaIndex for Legal Research
Virtual
Law Library (Indiana University School of Law)
ALSO - American Law Sources On-line
FindLaw:
Law Crawler
Law
Runner: A Legal Research Tool
General
Information Sites
U.S.
Census Bureau (more than you'll ever want to know)
Wikipedia
Encyclopedia
Britanica
Poverty in Maine: 2006 Report (from the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy)
Poverty in Maine Update: April 2009
Meriam-Webster
(dictionary, thesaurus, etc.)
MapQuest
Interactive Atlas
CIA
World Factbook
Zip
Code look up (USPS)
Westminster
Canadian Postal Lookup
Vital
Records Information (how to get vital records information from any state
or territory)
Kelley's Blue Book (automobile
prices)
MERCK
MANUAL (Home Edition - Searchable)
GPO
Access Database
Thomas
(Library of Congress Legislative Info)
Portland
Press Herald
Searchable archives (since
1994)
Bangor
Daily News
New
York Times
Washington
Post
News
Archives on the Web (UNC)
Updated June 2009
