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Antitrust
Advocacy and Legal Organizations
- American Constitution Society
- American Association of Justice
- Asian Law Caucus
- Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
- Consumer Attorneys of California
- East Bay Community Law Center
- Equal Rights Advocates
- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
- Health Law Advocates
- The Impact Fund
- Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
- La Raza Centro Legal
- Legal Aid at Work
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- National Employment Lawyers Association
- National Medical Malpractice Advocacy Association
- New York State Trial Lawyers Association
- Pride Law Fund
- Public Justice
- Tennessee Trial Lawyers
Bankruptcy
- The American Bankruptcy Institute (a well-stocked site, offering news, products and services)
- National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees (lists of members, links, seminars and conventions available)
Canadian Lawyers
- Rochon Genova (a Toronto, Ontario law firm representing plaintiffs in a wide range of actions)
Civil Rights
Code of Federal Regulations
Community Safety Organizations
Continuing Legal Education (CLE)
- CLE Online
- Practicing Law Institute’s CLE-NET (offers MCLE-approved audio seminars on the internet)
Courts
Elder Law
- Senior Law Home Page (information about Elder law, Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and the rights of the elderly and disabled)
- National Institute on Aging (NIA research and significant findings, plus employment opportunities, announcements, upcoming events, press releases, funding and health information)
Employment Law
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (offers facts about discrimination and assistance with discrimination matters)
- U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (offers assistance, press releases, public notices, forms, rules and regulations, and publications including manuals)
- U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) (offers news, DOL agencies, laws and regulations, programs and services, the DOL library and contacts)
- Legal Information Institute (lists federal and state discrimination statutes)
- Workplace Fairness.org (non-profit organization that promotes workplace policies and practices that work for everyone; their goal is to bring together workers, employers, advocates and policy makers to achieve fairness in the workplace)
Environmental Law
Expert Witnesses
- American Psychological Association (member directory as well as other features, including press releases and journal articles)
- ExpertLaw.com (comprehensive directory of expert witnesses and litigation support services, with additional free services for experts, attorneys and the public)
Family Law
Healthcare Law
- American Health Lawyers Association (offers current “Health Lawyers Updates,” publications, related web sites, seminars and educational programs)
- Modern Healthcare Business News (offers current and archived issues, classifieds and media information)
- National Health Law Program, Inc. (health care advocacy for low income people)
- Medscape (medical resource for healthcare professionals)
- AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) (serving the legal needs of people living with HIV/AIDS throughout the San Francisco Bay Area)
Human Rights – Holocaust-Related Links
- Swiss Banks Cases
- International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims
- International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Holocaust Claims Conference
Insurance
Intellectual Property
- Copyright Basics (from the U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress) (provides all copyright information, including forms and fees)
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) (provides patent and trademark information, fees, forms, libraries, statistics, jobs and related web sites)
- Intellectual Property Magazine (includes current and archived issues, links, and case digest)
- IBM’s Intellectual Property Network (allows for searches and viewing of patent documents from the U.S. and Europe, as well as patent applications published by the World Intellectual Property Office)
Legal Research
- Cornell Law School
- Garrett W. McEnerney Law Library at Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley
- Nolo Press (a self-help law center offering plain-English law books for non-lawyers, as well as legal questions and answers, information and an online legal encyclopedia)
- UC Hastings Law Library (legal resources)
- Stanford Law School – Robert Crown Law Library
- WASHLAW WEB – Washburn University School of Law (covers state and federal sources)
Securities Law
- SEC Law (offers event calendar, news updates, SEC LAW bookstore, monthly newsletter and related sites)
Technology Legislation
- Tech Law Journal (news, records and analysis of how the law affects the computer and Internet industry)
