Business.gov
www.business.gov
Business.gov provides legal and regulatory information for America’s small businesses. The sections of this site are devoted to getting legal help, news, laws and regulations on the federal and state levels, and contacting congress. Other tools on this site include forms, a legal dictionary, business "wizards" to help entrepreneurs understand and use the information provided.

FindLaw for Small Business
biz.findlaw.com
FindLaw presents articles and guides on starting a business, business organizations, business finance, taxes and accounting, debt and bankruptcy, small business legal concerns, employer rights, employee rights, immigration, worker compensation, business operations, intellectual property, and dissolution. There is also a search feature for finding a lawyer, business contracts, a legal dictionary, and cases and codes.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
www.sec.gov
The primary mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors and maintain integrity of the securities market. This site supports their mission by providing relevant information and articles to for accountants, broker dealers, EDGAR filers, funds and advisors, municipal markets, and small businesses.

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Gateway Sites

Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
www.law.cornell.edu/index.html
The web site of the Legal Information Institute is hosted by the Cornell Law School. This site contains links to subject guides on various legal topics, federal and state constitutions and codes, legal opinions, and a chronological calendar of legal events in the news.

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research (Georgia State University)
gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex
The Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research is hosted by Georgia State University. This Meta-Index utilizes searchable legal indexes from the web. Only specifically legal indexes from the United States are included in this index, which allows searching judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulations, and other legal sources.

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Legislation & Regulation

Code of Federal Regulations
www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr
The Code of Federal Regulations database features include a browse and search function, the ability to retrieve by CFR citation, search tips, instruction son how to link to CFR documents, and general information about the CFR.

Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet
www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
Full-Text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet "seeks to link to sites containing full-text state constitutions, statutes (called codes or compiled laws in some states), legislation (bills, amendments and similar documents), session laws (bills that have become laws), and administrative rules." The statutes and legislation are organized alphabetically by state.

Lex Mercatoria
www.lexmercatoria.org
Lex Mercatoria is hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway, and boasts of being one of the first web sites dedicated to law. The site features a search function and provides information about international law, commerce and technologies.

THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet
thomas.loc.gov
Presented by the Library of Congress, Thomas provides documents from Legislation, the Congressional Record, and Committee Information. Bills from the current and past Congresses may be searched by number or phrase. Also available from this site are links to an explanation of how congress makes laws and other historical documents.

Uniform Commercial Code
www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/ucc.table.html
The Legal Information Institute makes available online the full text of the Uniform Commercial Code as established by The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The code is broken down by articles, and online you may search for the relevancy by state.

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Public Records

Public Record Finder
www.publicrecordfinder.com
The Public Record Finder is a free site that indexes sites for Birth, Marriage and Death Records, Business Licenses, Court Records, Property Records, Recorded Documents and more. You begin by selecting a state which is appropriate for the records you are researching.

Public Records Directory
www.searchsystems.net
The Public Records Directory provides access to over 17,000 searchable databases. Searching is available by keyword or the following categories: U.S. Nationwide, United States by State, U.S. Territories, Canada Nationwide, Canada by Province, Worldwide and Outer Space.

NETROnline: Real Estate Information & Public Records Research
www.netronline.com/public_records.htm
"The online Public Records database is an Information Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet."

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