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Accountants: Deloitte & Touche Online; Ernst & Young; KPMG; PriceWaterhouseCoopers; CPAdirectory.com;
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants - American Institute of Certified Public Accounts, membership association. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036-8775 tel. 212/596-6200 fax 212/596-6213, commite@aicpa.org, pcps@aicpa.org, memsat@aicpa.org
- American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants - An association of professionals jointly qualified as attorney and CPA (only about three percent are dually qualified in both professions). links, 24196 Alicia Parkway, Suite K, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, 1-888-ATTY-CPA
Taxes and Accounting: The Official IRS Web Site (including all forms); Tax and Accounting Sites Directory;
- Forms: Federal IRS Forms; State Revenue Tax Forms; State Sales and Use Tax Forms;
- Online Law: U.S. IRS Tax Code; U.S. IRS Tax Code (from cornell); U.S. Tax Regulations; U.S. Tax Court Reports; U.S. Government Tax Publications; Tax-news.com; The Official U.S. IRS site; State Tax Links
- Other: Tax and Accounting Sites Directory; Tax.org (tax news page); RIA Checkpoint - (tax research materials including cases and rulings... from Research Institute of America and Warren Gorham & Lamont);
Consumer Price Index: Consumer Price Index;
Law Links
- Federal: U.S. Code; Code of Federal Regulations; SEC Law.com;
- State: State Code & Cases; Illinois law (constitution, court opinions and state statutes, municipal codes); Ernst and Young TaxCast.com;
- Other: CataLaw (a catalog of worldwide law on the Internet);
- Illinois: Prairienet Law and Government Links (includes Illinois and Federal law) Illinois Legal Materials (from Cornell); American Law Sources On-line (for Illinois); Illinois Secretary of State (complete table of contents for the Illinois Administrative Code - a huge file!); Illinois Bar Association (Illinois Adminstrative Code Titles and Parts Available on the Internet)
- Other: David Sorkin (John Marshall Law School with links related to spam laws, linking disputes and online payment matters)
Lawyers and Legal
- Law: Law.com (newsletters, CLE, general resources, jobs); LawGuru; Prairielaw.com; Law.com (newsletters, CLE, general resources, jobs); USLaw.com; LoisLaw (robotic searches); Law Library Resource Exchange (reviews of legal sites and databases); TheLaw.com; MyCounsel; American Legal Net (subscription site for litigators); Hieros Gamos (internation law portal); USCourts.gov;
- Legal Directories and Research: Findlaw (a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law); Cornell Law School; (a substantial on-line compilation of the text of U.S. Federal, State and local laws and just about anything else related to the law); WashLaw Web (great directory of links maintained by Washburn Univ!); Brief Reporter (search and download for a fee legal briefs from actual court cases); Internet Legal Resource Guide (links to 4,000 legal sites and legal forms); Internetlaw.pf.com (largest library of internet cases, including actual complaints) from Pike and Fischer legal book publishers; Gigalaw; BusinessLaw.gov (acts as a gateway to federal, state and local information... for example you can quickly check zoning codes for your local area); Mishpat.net; Prairielaw; Law Library Resource Exchange (reviews of legal sites and databases); Lectric Law Library (search federal and other laws); TheCRE.com (Center for Regulatory Effectiveness is a a nationally recognized clearinghouse for methods to improve the federal regulatory process and also maintains FedLaw a great place for researching federal laws); Law Research (lots of good research links); allLaw.com (a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law with free forms);
- More Legal Research Sites: Law and Politics Internet Guide (internet related law); Univeristy of Texas Law School (a nice stop stop shopping search page to find online text of pretty much any law); LexisNexis (low cost small firm version of Lexis); LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange); Northern California Association of Law Libraries (internet research links, California legal research links); The Virtual Chase (legal research site);
- Find a Lawyer: Martindale-Hubbell (Lawyer Locator); West's Find a Lawyer Legal Directory; (Findlaw version); eLawForum (an online auction enabling corporations to find legal services); LawInfo (legal referal agency);
- Specialities: ecommerceattorney; E-commerceLawSource.com (links section); TechLawJournal; CasinoLaw; InternetLawyer; LawDog.com (collections matters); InterNet Bankruptcy Library (bankruptcy information for bankruptcy professionals); HealthLawyersAssn; wrightslaw (law relating to special education rights for learning disabled children); BreakYourNonCompete.com; AAML (American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers);
- Class Actions: ClassActionAmerica (info about all class action suits); Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (BigClassAction (helps consumers find help in launching class action lw suits... see related sites WorldJustice, WorldExpose)
- Law Office Automation: Lawyerware (legal software); ABA Legal Technology Resource Center links page; Law Office Computing Online; Law Technology News;
- Continuing Legal Education: LegalSpan;
- Subscription Legal Sites: LawGuru.com (legal forms and over 35,000 legal questions and answers); Nolo.com (strong on immagration law); FindLegalHelp.org (ABA site with online directory of probono resources across the country);
- Internet Legal Rights: JohnDoes.org (offers legal support to anonymous internet posters being sued for defamation... see also The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Democracy and Technology, the Liberty Project see also article 1, article 2); Gigalaw (compilation of internet related law and legal cases); CyberSecuritiesLaw (tracks internet law suits including suites against anonymous posters); Stanford's Cyberlaw Clinic (helps defend small domain name owners from domain name hijacking by wealthy corporations 1-650-723-8773, stanfordcyberlawclinic@yahoo.com); Internetlaw.pf.com (largest library of internet cases, including actual complaints) from Pike and Fischer legal book publishers;
- Online Contracting: dicarta; eplaced; Membership Agreements; Bolero.net;
- Legal Documents: MyTechnologyLawyer.com (online legal services including agreements, Scott Draughon, Esq., admin@MyTechnologyLawyer.com, support@MyTechnologyLawyer.com 904.358.3777); Internet Legal Resource Guide (links to 4,000 legal sites and legal forms); LawCommerce.com (agreement list); Nolo Press (do it yourself legal info and tools); legalopinion.com (info@legalopinion.com Canada 250-763-5560, Seattle 206-652-3390); Contract Store (international and domestic business contracts); UrgentBusinessForms; Contract Edge, (Legal Contracts for IT Firms), LegalIndustry.about.com (links to sites with free legal forms); lawinfo.com (a legal yahoo with free legal forms); allLaw.com (a yahoo type of site dedicated to the law with free forms); Findlaw; WebLawResources (software development and other contact packages);
Due Diligence Checklists: CPI Due Diligence Checklists;
Strategic Partnering Tools: The Corporate Partnering Institute;
Corporate Legal Fee Guidelines: The Corporate Partnering Institute Legal Fee Guidelines for Key Partnering and Acquistion Agreements;
Patent Searches, Trademarks & Copyrights:
- Government Sites: US Patent and Trademark Office; US Copyright Office Records; USPTO Patent and Trademark Online databases (Free Patent and Trademark Searches); U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; USPTO Online databases (free trademark and patent searches); Copyright Office; USPTO Online databases (Free Searches);
- Trademark Searches: Nameprotect.com (trademark searches for a fee) MarksOnline (free searches); TrademarkBots (Trademark Search Engine)
- Trademarks and Patents: Marksonline (Intellectual Property Portal); PatentCafe.com (book section); MarksOnline (free name searches); BustPatents.com; NameProtect; Pierce Law's IP Mall (links to a unique collection of intellectual property resources); Trademark Search Instructions; MicroPat (patent searches); US Patent Advanced Search Page; Delphion Patent Search;

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Business Research Info "The Best Sources of Information on Markets, Competitors, Partners and Acquisition Targets"

Business Research Info
"The Best Sources of Information on Markets, Competitors,
Partners and Acquisition Targets"