Legal Profession

ABANET - The American Bar Association's award-winning site includes the current ABA Journal, selected section publications and newsletters, lists of ABA hosted e-mail discussion lists, CLE, and products and services for the law community.
NCBA - North Carolina Bar Association provides organization and committee information, CLE, calendar, ethics opinions, and links to other bar and legal associations. Current law students may join the NCBA for free; membership includes full access to the Casemaker service.
Findlaw Law Associations - Links to local, state, national and international bar and legal associations.

ABA Approved Law Schools - also includes list by state, public and private schools and regional maps.
Findlaw Law Schools Page - includes lists from A-Z or by state.
USC Working Paper Series - This series, sponsored by the John M. Olin Foundation, publishes approximately 20 papers a year on a wide range of legal topics. Some papers are later published in law reviews. Current papers are available in PDF from this site.
U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings: The magazine's annual graduate school rankings list includes influential evaluations of U.S. law schools.

Directories of Lawyers Research Guide (Duke Law Library)
Martindale-Hubbell - Lawyer Locator gives you access to the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory with biographical information on attorneys. Search by name, firm, area of practice, location or language using forms. Separate lists for US government lawyers (in Washington, D.C.) and corporate counsel.
Findlaw Lawyer Directory - Search for attorneys by name, office, location, practice area and by keyword. Entries contain name, firm, address, phone and type of practice.

Hieros Gamos - Self listing database of law firms, experts, alternative dispute resolution professionals, etc. Many international listings.
Law.com Briefing Papers - From Law.com and Law News Network this features briefing papers written by sponsoring firms in many practice areas plus news about law firms on the web, CLE and job ads.

Legal Ethics Research Guide (Duke Law Library)
Legalethics.com - Collection of links to legal ethics resources available on the Web. Ethics rules and opinions, state bar discipline and articles.

Last updated 11/2007 JB