NCLA – Federal & NC Legal Resources On The InternetMaureen Eggert and Sally Irvin

Wake Forest School of Law

Table of ContentsCases Statutes and Regulations North Carolina Divorce Resources North Carolina Landlord Tenant Resources North Carolina Education Resources Forms Comprehensive Legal Sites Blogs - Blawgs Finding Blawgs Government Portals Legal News Legal Dictionaries Finding People Dead or Alive Accessing Public Records Locating Experts Finding Assets Researching Corporations Business News Helpful How-To Resources

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I. Casesa. U.S. Supreme Court

i. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ b. NC Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)

i. http://www.nccourts.org/Courts/CRS/AOCAdminDefault.asp c. NC Court Opinions (Supreme Court and Court of Appeals)

i. http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/html/opinions.htm

II. Statutes and Regulationsa. North Carolina Statutes

i. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/Statutes/Statutes.asp b. NC Administrative Code

i. http://reports/oa.state.nc.us/ncac.asp c. Federal Laws and Regulations

i. http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/ ii. http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/

iii. http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/cfr.html d. Federal Bills

i. http://thomas.loc.gov/

III. Divorce Law Resourcesa. Divorcelawinfo

i. http://www.divorcelawinfo.com/states/nc/northcarolina.htm b. Rosen Law Firm

i. http://www.rosen.com

IV. Education Law Resourcesa. NC – General Information

i. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/legal/law.html b. Home Schooling

i. Legal Requirements1. http://www.ncdnpe.org/hhh103.htm

ii. FAQs1. http://www.ncdnpe.org/hhh114.htm

c. IDEAi. http://www.nichcy.org/idea.htm

d. NCLBi. Federal

1. http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml ii. NC

1. http://www.ncpublicschools.org/nclb/

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V. Landlord and Tenant Resourcesa. NC State Handout

i. http://www.ncsu.edu/stud_affairs/legal_services/legaldocs/ LandlordTenantHandout.htm

b. Fair Housing Act (English & Spanish) & Complaint Formsi. http://www.doa.state.nc.us/hrc/fairhousing.htm

c. HUD Local Tenant Rights, Laws, and Protections: NCi. http://www.hud.gov/local/nc/renting/tenantrights.cfm

VI. Formsa. NC Court Forms

i. http://www.nccourts.org/Forms/FormSearch.asp b. NC Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney

i. http://www.law.wfu.edu/x1635.xml c. Administrative Hearings Forms

i. http://www.oah.state.nc.us/forms.html d. Secretary of State

i. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/ e. Advanced Health Care Directory

i. http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/ahcdr/ f. United States Bankruptcy Court - Local Forms

i. http://www.nceb.uscourts.gov/local.htm g. Internal Revenue Service

i. http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html h. FindLaw

i. http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/states/nc.html i. LLRX

i. http://www.llrx.com/courtrules/ j. ILRG Legal Forms Archive

i. http://www.ilrg.com/forms/ k. All About Forms

i. http://www.allaboutforms.com/ l. FormsGuru

i. http://www.formsguru.com/ m. FINDFORMS

i. http://www.findforms.com/ n. Lexisone Automated Forms

i. http://www.lexisone.com/lx1/store/catalog?action=main o. Free Legal Forms (Kinsey Law Offices)

i. http://www.kinseylaw.com/freestuff/FreeIndex.html

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VII. Comprehensive Legal Sitesa. Findlaw

i. http://findlaw.com/ b. Washlaw

i. http://washlaw.edu/ c. LexisOne

i. http://www.lexisone.com/ d. Cornell Legal Information Institute

i. http://www.law.cornell.edu/ e. Law Library of Congress

i. http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html f. Justia

i. http://www.justia.com/ g. Megalaw

i. http://megalaw.com/

VIII. Legal Blogs - Blawgsa. Womble Carlyle

i. http://www.wcsr.com/default.asp?id=686 b. Kilpatrick Stockton

i. http://efcaupdate.squarespace.com/ c. Deuterman

i. http://greensboro.injuryboard.com/ d. Robert Ambrogi

i. http://www.legaline.com/lawsites.html e. beSpacific

i. http://www.bespacific.com/ f. inter alia

i. http://www.inter-alia.net/

IX. Finding Blawgsa. Blawg Republic

i. http://www.blawgrepublic.com/ b. Law.com’s Blawgs

i. http://theblogsoflaw.com/ c. Quack Track

i. http://quacktrack.com/

X. Government Portalsa. USA.gov

i. http://www.usa.gov/ b. GPO Access

i. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ c. North Carolina

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i. http://www.ncgov.com/

XI. Legal Newsa. Washlaw – News

i. http://www.washlaw.edu/news/ b. Jurist

i. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/ c. CNN Law Center

i. http://www.cnn.com/LAW/

XII. Legal Dictionariesa. Jurist’s Dictionary

i. http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/dictionary.htm b. Findlaw’s Dictionary

i. http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/

XIII. Finding People Dead or Alivea. Finding Lawyers

i. Lawyers.com (Martindale Hubbell)1. http://www.lawyers.com/

ii. Findlaw’s Lawyer Directory1. http://lawyers.findlaw.com/

b. Phone Directoriesi. The Ultimates

1. http://www.theultimates.com/ ii. Infospace provides over 112 million listings of phone numbers,

addresses and e-mail addresses1. http://infospace.com/

iii. AnyWho from AT&T – provides company name searching to find 1-800 numbers. AT&T’s directory of personal and business phone numbers and email addresses. Best site to find Email addresses.

1. http://anywho.com/ iv. Infobel - 216 countries white pages, yellow pages, business

directories and other people finding directories.1. http://www.infobel.com/teldir/

c. Locating the Deadi. Find A Grave - 9.7 million people gravesite locations

1. http://www.findagrave.com/ ii. Obituaries

1. http://obits.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/obit.cgi iii. Social Security Death Index

1. http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ iv. US Gen Web Project - Provides links to all the state genealogy

sites which can then direct you to the county web sites.1. http://usgenweb.com/

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d. Criminal Records and Sexual Offendersi. Research Guide – Finding Federal Criminal Records

1. http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/ criminal_records_federal.shtml

ii. Research Guide – Finding Federal Criminal Records1. http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/

criminal_records_state.shtmliii. Research Guide – Finding International Criminal Records

1. http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/ criminal_records_international.shtml

iv. North Carolina Dept. of Corrections Public Access Information

1. http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/apps/offender/relSearch v. North Carolina Sexual Offender Registry

1. http://ncfindoffender.com/ vi. VineLink - Information about criminal cases, when the

offenders are arrested, released or scheduled to appear in court.

1. http://www.vinelink.com/index.jsp vii. Inmate Plus - Locate public records about prison inmates

nationally.1. http://inmateplus.com/

viii. Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator1. http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp

ix. The National Sex Offender Public Registry1. http://www.nsopr.gov/

x. FBI State Sex Offender Registry1. http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/registry.htm

XIV. Public Recordsa. Pretrieve - Searches numerous public records databases

simultaneouslyi. http://www.pretrieve.com/

b. Portico - Especially see the Occupations section where you can search by professional and trade licensing boards

i. http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/home.html c. BRB Publications - Links to over 1400 state, county, city and federal

sites where public record information is freei. http://www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp

d. State and Local Government on the Net - Links to over 11,000 official state and local government sites.

i. http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm e. Vital Statistics at Rootsweb - Birth, death, marriage and divorce

recordsi. http://www.rootsweb.com/

f. U.S. Excluded Parties List

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i. http://epls.arnet.gov/

XV. Finding Expertsa. JurisPro

i. http://jurispro.com/ b. Experts.com

i. http://experts.com/ c. ALM’s Experts

i. http://www.almexperts.com/ExpertWitness/ d. Martindale.com

i. http://resources.martindale.com/mhes/index.jsp

XVI. Locating Assetsa. Tax Assessor Databases

i. http://www.pulawski.net/ b. Forsyth County GeoData Explorer

i. http://www.forsyth.cc/tax/geodata.aspx c. U.S. Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights

i. http://www.uspto.gov/ d. Unclaimed Property

i. http://www.unclaimed.org/

XVII.Researching Corporationsa. Company Directories

i. Yahoo Finance1. http://biz.yahoo.com/i/

ii. Hoover’s1. http://premium.hoovers.com/subscribe/

b. Product Directory - ThomasNeti. http://www.thomasnet.com/

c. SEC Filings & Formsi. http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

d. Annual Reportsi. IRIN

1. http://www.irin.com/ ii. AnnualReports.com

1. http://annualreports.com/ iii. PRARS

1. http://www.prars.com/ iv. Secretary of State Records at State and Local Government on

the Net1. http://statelocalgov.net/

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XVIII. Business Newsa. Bizjournals.com

i. http://www.bizjournals.com/ b. Bizjournal Greensboro

i. http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/ c. Business Wire

i. http://home.businesswire.com/

XIX. Helpful How-To Resourcesa. The Virtual Chase

i. http://www.virtualchase.com/ b. LLRX.com

i. http://www.llrx.com/

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