Business Law

• American Bar Association (ABA) - Homepage of the American Bar Association, the largest voluntary professional association in the world that provides information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.  The site provides member information/services such as legal/professional resources and information about legislative/governmental advocacy as well as law student information/services such as grant programs, scholarships, financial aid, and legal information.  The site also provides full-text access to the current issue of the ABA Journal Online as well as general public information/services including legal referral services, Pro Bono services, a legal directory, ABA consumer publications, and ABA LawInfo.org - a gateway to information on legal topics that affect daily life (family, home, job, finances, buying/selling, the courts, criminal justice, and lawyers).
  
  
• ABA Business Law - Homepage of the ABA Business Law section that provides information/services to section members, law students, businesses, and the general public about business law.  The site provides links to Safe Shopping (a site where consumers can order safely when shopping online); Find Legal Help (a consumers guide to legal help on the Internet); Safe Borrowing (the place to stop before you shop for a mortgage loan); and Lawlink, a directory of legal information sites provided by ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center.
  
  
• Bankruptcy Law Finder - Directory of links to bankruptcy law sources, statutes/courts, government sources, and vender products/services for bankruptcy professionals.  The site is maintained by Warren E. Agin of Swiggart & Agin, LLC, a law firm in Boston, Massachusetts that provides legal services to the technology community, including services in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency law, computer law, and corporate law.
  
  
• Business and Law - Directory of business and law sites arranging by subject categories including company information, finance, human resources, industries, law, management, stocks, etc.  The site also provides the latest business and law headlines.
  
  
• Consumer Law Page - Collection of articles and brochures by litigation specialists on legal first aid, practical law related information, wrongful death and workers' compensation cases, and help with consumer fraud and insurance claims.  The site also provides free consultations online and lawyer referrals for personal injury.  The site is published by Alexander, Hawes & Audet, LLP, specialists in personal injury, wrongful death, industrial cancer clusters caused by toxic chemicals, and consumer/investor/product fraud class actions.
  
  
• Eye on International Business Law (LawEye) - Collection of international business law resources on the Internet provided by the Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL), worldwide forum for the study of transnational commercial law located at Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany.  The sites are arranged into subjects including international trade/commercial law, international private law, and international commercial arbitration.
  
  
• FedLaw - Directory of online resources and references useful for for federal legal research provided by the U.S. General Service Administration.  The site provides an alphabetical topic/title index to sources and an alphabetical subject list of federal laws/regulations as well as links to federal judiciary/legislative sites, arbitration/mediation sources, general research/reference sources, and professional organizations/associations.
  
  
• ICC Institute of World Business Law - Homepage of the Institute of World Business Law of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the world business organization that promotes an open international trade/investment system and the market economy.  The ICC Institute of World Business Law provides sources and training on such subjects as negotiation of contracts, international arbitration, investment protection, and international audiovisual law.
  
  
• International Bar Association (IBA) - Homepage of the International Bar Association, an international organization of  individual lawyers and bar associations/law societies that influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession.  The site provides information about business law, legal practices, energy/natural resources, and human rights as well as links to international legal information sites.
  
  
• FindLaw - Directory of online legal information including codes/case law, legal forms, newsletters/opinion summaries, legal news, lawyers/law firms, legal publishers, legal associations, law schools/law reviews, legal experts, continuing legal education courses, etc.  The site also features LawCrawler, a full-text search engine specifically for legal research that is powered by Google.
  
  
• Hieros Gamos (HG) - Portal of law and government sites including legal and bar associations, legal directories, legal news sources, law libraries, legal forms, law schools, law job sources, etc.  The site provides translations in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
  
  
• LawCrawler - Full-text search engine specifically for legal research that is powered by Google and is provided by FindLaw.
  
  
• Law Links - Directory of legal sites arranged by categories including legal research (court decisions, state codes, etc.), law organizations/associations, courtroom/trial procedures (appeals, warrants, etc.), legal support services (appraisers, litigation graphics, etc.), information for law students, online legal publications, law schools, etc.  The directory is provided and maintained by 1-800-Attorney.
  
  
• Law Research - Directory of law-related sites arranged by categories including international law, U.S. law, law search engines, areas of law practice, public records locator, general law resources, law associations, etc.
  
  
• National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) - Homepage of the National Consumer Law Center, an organization that helps consumers, their advocates, and public policy makers use consumer laws on behalf of low-income and elderly Americans seeking economic justice.  The NCLC assists low-income families with financial/legal problems such as repossessions, debt collection abuses, electronic benefits transfers, home improvement frauds, usury, bankruptcy, utility terminations, school loans, payday loans, sustainable home ownership, inadequate fuel assistance benefits, etc.  The site provides training manuals and information to help low-income families resolve financial crises, gain control over their budgets, and achieve economic independence.  
  
• Securities Fraud and Investor Protection - Resource that provides information about the duties of stockbrokers, common complaints against stockbrokers, legal cases of action against brokers/brokerage firms, the arbitration process, calculation of damages, timing issues/statutes of limitation, how to avoid problems, and information for attorneys.  The site also provides links to resources for finding rules and regulations governing securities trading practices as well as learning more about securities fraud and investor rights.  The site is provided and maintained by Harry S. Miller of the law firm of Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP in Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Securities Law Homepage - Directory of links to securities law information including information about arbitration, corporate finance, brokers, investors, and law compliance.  The site includes links to reference materials, case law, news, arbitration how-to guides, arbitration acts, etc.
  
  
• Small Business FindLaw - Directory of online legal information for small businesses including legal structures, business plans, buying/selling, mergers, accounting, finance, insurance, marketing, small business forms, guides for starting small businesses, etc.  The site is provided by FindLaw.
  
  
• South Carolina Bar Online - Homepage of the South Carolina Bar, an organization of South Carolina  lawyers that provides information/services to bar members as well as the general public.  Member services of the site include a searchable lawyer directory of South Carolina bar members, a searchable legal career center, access to the full-text of all ethics opinions since 1958 from the Ethics Advisory Committee, etc.  Free services available to the public include legal clinic schedule, online answers to frequently asked legal questions, information about the ask-a-lawyer service, information about the Pro Bono program,  publications, etc.
  
  
• TaxGate - Homepage of TaxGate, an income tax law organization that provides training, data, strategies, and a network of caseworkers/researchers nationwide for income tax and due process issues.
  
  
• Transnational Law Database (TLDB) - Database of the Lex Mercatoria principles, the codification of transnational law.  The database is searchable by keyword and is provided by the Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL), worldwide forum for the study of transnational commercial law located at Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster, Germany.
  
  
• USC School of Law - Homepage of the University of South Carolina's School of Law, which provides information about USC's Law School, its programs, its faculty, and the Coleman Karesh Law Library.
  
  
• WashLaw Web - Directory of federal government and legal sites provided by the Washburn University School of Law Library in Topeka, Kansas.  The site contains a search feature that allows users to search the entire WashLaw site by keyword as well as search many of the linked sites by keyword.