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A service of the U.S. Census Bureau, American Fact Finder is designed to simplify census research. It makes it easy to find social, economic or housing characteristics for any location. Tools help you create various tables—either from predefined templates or using your own preferences—and generate maps illustrating data and statistics. Other sections allow you…

Sure I’m partial to LawCatalog.com, the online bookstore of American Lawyer Media, and not just because they are the folks who publish my book. But starting this month, there is competition on the block, with the launch of the American Bar Association’s new WebStore. The site provides access to nearly 1,500…

The best source for learning and keeping up with everything there is to know about search engines is Search Engine Watch. Now, search-engine junkies can get even more frequent updates on news from the field, thanks to the newly launched Search Engine Watch Blog. Yes, it has an RSS feed.…

Legal Research for Estate Planners. This is a comprehensive, well-organized and up-to-date collection of links to estate planning resources on the Web. Created by Jason E. Havens, an estate planning lawyer in Destin, Florida, this annotated guide covers both national and state-specific sites and also indexes sites by topic and type of resource.

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HUDCLIPS is the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s official repository of policies, procedures, announcements and the like. Short for “HUD Client Information and Policy System,” HUDCLIPS contains full-text searchable databases of all HUD handbooks; notices; mortgagee, preservation and Title I letters; U.S. Code titles 12 and 42; Code of Federal Regulations Title…

I am proud to report that, following a complete overhaul and relaunch earlier this year, the Web site of Jaffe Associates — the legal consulting firm for which I serve as VP of editorial services — has earned the award for outstanding achievement in website development from the Web Marketing Association. The award…

From the legal-ethics chapter:

American Legal Ethics Library. From Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, this digital library contains the full text of the codes or rules of professional conduct for most U.S. states, as well as the ABA’s model code. Some are in hypertext format, others are included through links to state

From the chapter on environmental law:

Environmental Law Net. David S. Blackmar, an environmental lawyer with Murtha Cullina LLP, Boston, created this rich and wide-ranging site in order to better serve his clients, who include general counsel, in-house attorneys and corporate environmental managers. He divides the site between two sets of resources: legal information

The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University

of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication has launched Money and Politics Blog. Edited by Sean Treglia, senior advisor for democracy initiatives at USC Annenberg, it is intended to to help journalists stay on top of current campaign finance issues.…

From the technology and e-commerce practice group of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, an international law firm with more than 1,400 lawyers worldwide, CyberLaw@Sidley is a truly practical site combining daily news coverage with in-depth feature articles and analysis. The news comes via links to other media sites, with a half-dozen or so headlines…

I will be presenting a day-long program, Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Advanced Internet Strategies for the Massachusetts Legal Professional, this Friday, Sept. 17, in Boston. My co-panelist is Russell Beck of Epstein Becker & Green.…

Sept. 11 — and the sky was ablaze.

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