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Research Links for Attorneys
(compiled by Mark I. Unger)
Search Engines/All topics
People
Property Searches
Texas Government Sites
Texas Legislature
Texas Courts
Legal Research Sites
Practice Management
Search Engines
Google: www.google.com
Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
AltaVista: www.altavista.com
Excite: www.excite.com
Yahoo: www.yahoo.com
Searchengines.com
Craig Ball’s Meta-Search Engine
People
Phone/Address Finders
1. State Bar of Texas Attorney Search: www.texasbar.com
2. Martindale-Hubbell: www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml
3. Anywho: www.anywho.com
4. Smart Pages: www.smartpages.com
5. US Search: www.ussearch.com/wlcs/index.jsp
4. Switchboard.com: www.switchboard.com
5. Area Code Listings
6. ATT reverse phone lookup: www.att.com/directory
7. Yahoo People Search: http://people.yahoo.com
Data Searches on People
1. Birthdays: http://anybirthday.com/search.htm
2. Search Systems: www.searchsystems.net
3. Virtual Gumshoe: www.virtualgumshoe.com
4. PublicData.com: www.publicdata.com
5. Accurint: www.accurint.com
6. KnowX.com: www.knowx.com
7. Web Detective: www.web-detective.com
8. Intelius.com: www.intelius.com
Property Searches
Real Property
1. Craig Ball’s County Property Links: www.craigball.com/appraisal.html
2. Texas County Data Website: www.txcountydata.com
Corporation Tax Search: http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/Index.html
Bexar County Practice
1. Bexar County Appraisal District: www.bcad.org
2. Bexar County District Clerk: www.co.bexar.tx.us/dclerk
3. Bexar County District Court Litigant Search: www.co.bexar.tx.us/webapps/html/dklitinq01.asp
4. Bexar County Clerk: www.co.bexar.tx.us/cclerk
5. San Antonio Municipal Court: www.sanantonio.gov/court
https://epay.sanantonio.gov/ecommerce/court/?res=1024&ver=true
6. San Antonio Police Reports: www.ci.sat.tx.us/sapd/Reports.asp
Personal Property and Corporate Filings:
1. Secretary of State (SOS): www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/sosda/index.shtml
Texas Government Sites
Office of the Attorney General, Child Support database: www.oag.state.tx.us/child/index.shtml
Texas Online, E-Government Services: www.TexasOnline.com
Texas Department of Public Safety: www.txdps.state.tx.us/onserv.htm
First Gov: www.1stgov.com
Comprehensive State Government Links: www.texasatty.com/texgov.html
Comprehensive Federal Government Links: www.texasatty.com/fedgov.html
Comprehensive private search engine for all states's government websites
www.govengine.com
Texas Legislature: www.capitol.state.tx.us
Texas Courts
Search for Opinions for all Texas Courts: www.courts.state.tx.us
Search for Local Rules for Texas County and District Court: www.texaslocalrules.com
Texas Municipal Courts Website: www.tmcec.com/courts.html
Legal Research Sites
Texas Statutes Online: www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/statutes.html
Texas Constitution: www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/toc.html
Texas Rules of Evidence: www.courts.state.tx.us/publicinfo/TRE/Toc.htm
Texas Rules of Civil Procedure: www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/rules/TRCP
Texas Rules of Criminal Procedure: www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/cptoc.html
Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure: www.courts.state.tx.us/publicinfo/Trap/index.asp
Texas Codes:
1. All Codes
Statutes http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/statutes.html
2. Business Organization Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/bo.toc.htm
3. Civil Practice & Remedies Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/cp.toc.htm
4. Code of Criminal Procedure http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/cr.toc.htm
5. Family Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/fa.toc.htm
6. Penal Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/pe.toc.htm
7. Probate Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/pb.toc.htm
8. Property Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/pr.toc.htm
9. Transportation Code http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/tn.toc.htm
Texas Case law:
1. My Texas Bar: www.mytexasbar.com
2. Findlaw: www.findlaw.com
3. Cornell Law School: www.law.cornell.edu
4. Lexis: www.lexis.com
5. LexisOne: www.lexisone.com
6. Westlaw: www.westlaw.com
Private Legal Sites for Texas Attorneys
1. Craig Ball, Esq: www.craigball.com
2. Howard Nations, Esq.: www.howardnations.com/states/texas/texas-index.html
Texas Bar Associations:
1. San Antonio Bar Association: www.sanantoniobar.org
2. Travis County Bar Association: www.travisbar.com
3. Dallas County Bar Association: www.dallasbar.org
4. Houston Bar Association: www.hba.org
5. Texas Access To Justice Commission (TAJC) and Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation (TEAJF): www.TexasLawHelp.org
6. My Texas Bar: www.mytexasbar.com
7. Check your MCLE compliance: www.texasbar.com/Template.cfm?Section=Login&Template=/Security/Login.cfm
8. Texas Bar CLE: www.texasbarcle.com/publications/articles.asp
9. American Bar Association CLE Programs: www.abanet.org/cle/home.html
Practice Management
Communication (cell phone and text paging sites)
1. AT&T: www.mymmode.com/messagecenter/init
2. Verizon: www.vtext.com/customer_site/jsp/messaging_lo.jsp
3. Cingular: www.cingular.com/sendamessage
4. TMobile: www.t-mobile.com/messaging/default.asp?nav=hm
5. Sprint: http://messaging.sprintpcs.com/sml/guestCompose.do
6. NextTel: www.nextel.com
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