Finding Tools - Attorneys, Courts, Criminal, Email & Telephone, Government & Military, Investigative
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- Email & Telephone
- Expert Witnesses
- Finding Tools - General
- Government & Military
- Investigative
Attorney Lists
This section gives the user various attorney directories and lists. You may want to check the Bar Association listed in the state links. Select the state in which you are attempting to locate an attorney, then locate the link for the Bar Association. Note: Not all, but several Bar Associations have an online directory of their members.
Attorney Find
Attorney Find specializes in litigation attorneys, divorce attorneys, immigration attorneys, california attorneys, lawyer directories, bankruptcy attorneys, florida attorneys and divorce lawyers. Simply select a state, a practice area, and click Find Attorney Now.
URL: http://www.attorneyfind.com/
The Legal Directory
Legal Directories specializes in how to find a lawyer or mediator with the Attorney and Firm Directory Search using field of practice or name, including criminal lawyers, divorce attorneys, bankruptcy lawyers, real estate attorney, immigration lawyers, and personal injury lawyers.
URL: http://www.legaldirectories.com/
Martindale from Lexis Nexis
With the Martindale.com community, connect corporate counsel and law firm lawyers with a network of lawyers or firms. Use the extensive directory to find a lawyer or attorney.
URL: http://www.martindale.com/
Public Legal from the Internet Legal Resource Guide
Public Legal is a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession. with emphasis on the United States. The selection criteria are predicated on two principles: the extent to which the resource is unique, as well as the relative value of the information it provides.
URL: http://www.ilrg.com/
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
The Texas Board of Legal Specialization (TBLS,) authorized by the Supreme Court of Texas, certifies attorneys in 20 specific areas of law and paralegals in six specific areas. Provides certified specialists by county and board certification information about an attorney.
URL: http://www.tbls.org/
Courts
Online access to county, state, and federal information on courts and the court system. Also locate dockets, pleadings, and background information on cases.
Courthouse News Service
Set up in a "newspaper column" style format, the Courthouse News Service website offers daily summaries of new cases filed in federal and state courts.
URL: http://www.courthousenews.com/
CourtLink (part of LexisNexis)
CourtLink is used for accessing dockets for backgrounding people, current awareness, client development and locating missing pleadings and sample pleadings regarding cases.
URL: https://litigator.lexisnexis.com/Courtlink
Legal Dockets Online (LDO)
Legal Dockets Online is the largest court docket portal in existence allowing quick and inexpensive research to obtain court case dockets, filings, and other public records.
URL: http://www.legaldockets.com/
LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets includes links to over 1,400 sources (at this writing) for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. Browse to find resources or search by keyword.
URL: http://www.llrx.com/courtrules
MoreLaw.com
Allows users to search MoreLaw's Verdict database for recent decisions by state or field.
URL: http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/
National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers (NASJVP)
As a premier source for researching civil jury verdicts and settlements, the National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers finds experts via jury verdict or case testified.
URL: http://www.juryverdicts.com
New York E. Courts
By using New York E. Courts research information can be found regarding Supreme Court civil cases, calenders, and next court appearances in a criminal case. This site also updates case information daily.
URL: http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/webcivil/ecourtsMain
Criminal
Includes Sex Offender searches, Inmate searches, our own Texas CrimeStoppers resource page and extensive criminal database access.
Criminal Records
Search their current inmates or recently released prisoners. Usually reveals class and description of crime committed, date of conviction, length of sentence, housing facility, status of inmate (released or still incarcerated) and his or her parole hearing date.
URL: Arizona
http://www.stategovrecords.com/lp.php?state=Arizona&tc=sr36&sk=Criminal
fee-based
URL: Florida
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/InmateReleases/search.asp
URL: Georgia
http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/
URL: Illinois
http://www.idoc.state.il.us/subsections/search/default.asp
URL: Minnesota
http://info.doc.state.mn.us/PublicViewer/
URL: Parole Records - New York
www.docs.state.ny.us
Criminal Searches
With Criminal Searches execute a criminal history check, find sex offenders, check criminal alerts and view criminal statistics. With Neighborhood Watch, use an address to display offenders in a specific area. Check neighbors, babysitters, nannies, janitors, teachers, service workers such as gardners and electricians, locksmiths and children's friends.
URL: http://criminalsearches.com/
Family Watchdog
By entering an address and state, Family Watchdog provides interactive maps of the location of sex offenders. The map legend lists color coded boxes for sex offenders, rape, offenders against children, and sexual battery. Clicking on a colored square brings up a separate window that lists names, photographs, and addresses of sex offenders all over the nation.
URL: http://www10.familywatchdog.us/
FBI Crimes Against Children National/State Sex Offender Registry Websites
The National Sex Offender Public Registry website - coordinated by the Department of Justice - enables every citizen to search the latest information from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for the identity and location of known sex offenders.
URL: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/cac/registry.htm
Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator
The Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator contains records of federal inmates from 1982 to present. You can find information on inmates regarding age, race, sex, and date of released.
URL: http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/LocateInmate.jsp
Sex Crimes / Offender Searches
- Arizona
www.sexoffender.com/
- Delaware
www.state.de.us/dsp/sexoff/index.htm
- Florida
http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/homepage.do
- New York
http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/nsor/search_index.htm
South Carolina
http://www.doc.sc.gov/InmateSearchDisclaimer.jsp
- Texas
https://records.txdps.state.tx.us/DPS_WEB/SorNew/index.aspx
Sex offender and inmate databases providing information such as description of the crime, time the perpetrator served, status of his or her sentence and identifying tattoos or birthmarks, home address and pictures.
Texas CrimeStoppers Resource Listing
http://www.howardnations.com/states/texas/crimestoppers.html
Email & Telephone
AnyWho Directory
AnyWho is a free directory service with residential, business, and government white and yellow page listings. Find telephone number, email, home page URL, toll free number, and address.
URL: http://www.anywho.com/index.html
Bigfoot's Global E-Mail Directory
Bigfoot's Global E-Mail Directory is the Internet's largest collection of e-mail addresses and white page listings, and currently uses Intelius (see below.)
URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/
Cell Phone Trace
Cell Phone Trace retrieves cell phone numbers and mobile phone numbers and can reverse them, locating cell phone numbers from name and address.
URL: http://www.cell-phone-numbers.com/?hop=mpndotcom
FoneFinder
FoneFinder is a telephone search engine that returns the city, state, and country of any phone number in the world.
URL: http://fonefinder.net/
Google's 411
Google's 411 service from any phone, tap in 800-GOOG-411 (800-4664-411) Say where you are, what you're looking for, and select which option is given.
URL: http://www.google.com/goog411/
Intelius People Search Report
People Search Report includes current phone number, address, age, birthdates, household members, average income and more.
URL: http://find.intelius.com/index.php
Junk Faxes and Telemarketing Complaint Form (1088) from the FCC
Find the 1088 Junk Fax and Telemarketing Complaint form available from the FCC to complain of telemarketing (cell phone and land line) and junk faxes here.
URL: https://esupport.fcc.gov/form1088/consumer.do
MobilephoneNo.com
With The Mobile Phone Number Directory find people by reverse lookup using cell phone numbers or use land line telephone number to find names and street addresses. Find people by reverse directory with a street address. Also find a company name and search business or occupation type.
URL: http://www.mobilephoneno.com/index.html
National Do Not Call Registry
With a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home, the Do Not Call Registry allows the registrant to place their phone numbers on a list that specific telemarketers and sellers must follow. Exempt organizations neither have to register nor follow the guidelines.
URL: https://www.donotcall.gov/
Telephone Directories on the Web
International Infobel's Telephone Directories on the Web is a directory of directories listing world phone books, world yellow pages, world white pages, sometimes fax listings, email addresses and more. Alphabetic, residential, classified, people, companies.
URL: http://www.infobel.com/en/world/index.aspx
Expatriates Telephone Search Engine
A one-of-a-kind search engine, Expatriates Telephone Search Engine is based on placing international calls from international locations. Gives calling codes and instructions and allows you to search every on-line telephone directory in the world. Find lots of other useful travel information on this site such as embassy locations, voltages and more.
URL: http://www.embassyworld.com/directories/global_telephone.html
WhoWhere E-Mail Addresses
WhoWhere locates individuals, their e-mail addresses or businesses.
URL: http://www.whowhere.com/
Expert Witnesses
Locate expert witnesses who have registered on the Internet; or subscribe to a fee-based directory of experts. Conduct searches by specialty, state, or name.
Accident Reconstruction Network
Accident Reconstruction Network provides accident reconstruction research, experts, research tools, news, and an accident reconstruction expert witness directory.
URL: http://www.accidentreconstruction.com/research/GovLinks.asp
Expert Witness Directory
Expert Witness Directory finds expert witnesses, organized by specialty and by geographical location. Expert profiles, hundreds of expert articles by listed and verified experts.
URL: http://expertpages.com/
Hieros Gamos List of Expert Witnesses
Find comprehensive information about law and government at Worldwide Legal Directories. Directories for law firms, attorneys, legal associations, expert witnesses and more.
URL: http://www.hg.org/
Jurispro Expert Witness Directory
Jurispro Expert Witness Directory searches for experts by state and field of interest, providing detailed listing of expertise and qualifications. Also find CV and audio recordings from the expert witnesses.
URL: http://www.jurispro.com/
MoreLaw.com
MoreLaw.com allows the researcher to search for experts pertaining to jury verdict reports.
URL: http://www.morelaw.com/
National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers (NASJVP)
National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers (NASJVP) finds experts via jury verdict or case testified.
URL: http://www.juryverdicts.com/
National Directory of Expert Witnesses - The Internet Online Directory
The Internet Online Directory is a continuously updated online edition of the National Directory of Expert Witnesses. As of this writing, it includes over 2,000 expert listings from across the nation in over 400 categories of technical, scientific and medical expertise.
URL: http://national-experts.com/online.html
NCAC - National Crash Analysis Center
The NCAC is a federally funded research center concentrating on vehicle crash research, primarily supporting the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) strategic goal to reduce fatalities and injuries on the Nation's roadways, but has served to enhance efforts to improve safety worldwide.
URL: http://www.ncac.gwu.edu/
TARO - Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin
The Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin's mission is to present a critical forum for ideas and techniques used in the field of traffic accident reconstruction while promoting excellence in the field of traffic accident reconstruction through dialog, education and individual participation.
URL: http://www.tarorigin.com/
TrialSmith
TrialSmith can be helpful in finding the expert's deposition testimony to research their performance.
URL: http://www.trialsmith.com/TS/
Government & Military
Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government is produced by the Indiana University - Perdue University Indianapolis.
URL: http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/federal/military
Columbia Libraries Online Catalog (CLIO)
CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia and Barnard libraries, containing over 4 million records for over 92% of the Libraries' collections including books, serials, journals, newspapers, video recordings, and many archival collections. Not included in CLIO, for example, are the collections of the Law, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Teachers College libraries and partially included are certain manuscripts, rare books, South Asian language collections, some periodicals which ceased before 1985, some research collections in microform, maps, data, and collections of pamphlets acquired before 1970.
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/clio/index.html
Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive is a comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 declassified documents available for public access through use of the US Freedom of Information Act.
URL: http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp
Military Personnel Locator
The Military Personnel Locator helps to find active duty servicemen and women, veterans, reservists, friends and families of the US Military.
URL: http://www.globemaster.de/faq/locator.html
Military USA
MilitaryUSA offers military researchers, reunion coordinators and others access to over 13 million military personnel records. MIE, Inc. is a South Carolina Licensed Private Investigation firm specialized in locating former military personnel and military research WWII-present.
URL: http://www.militaryusa.com/
State and Local Government on the Net
State and Local Government on the Net is a frequently updated directory of official state and local government websites. US Government links to cities, counties, and state government agencies and offices.
URL: http://www.statelocalgov.net/
U.S. InfoSearch
Use U.S. InfoSearch for Social Security number validation. This website can show whether a Social Security number is valid or if it belongs to someone alive or deceased.
URL: http://www.free-ssn-id-verification.usinfosearch.com/
Investigative
Includes searches for graves and geneology.
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. Used for genealogy research but is useful for links to state and local public records and publicly available information.
URL: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/main.htm
Cemetery Records Online
With Cemetery Records Online, l ook up cemetery records online, for thousands of cemeteries around the world. Free access to cemetery records. Lists more than 2 million records from some 4,000 cemeteries throughout the world. Searchable by sur name or specific cemetery.
URL: http://www.interment.net/
FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer advocate that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases, FactCheck.org is a political watchdog for voters.
URL: http://www.factcheck.org/
Find A Grave
Find A Grave is a resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family. Includes the old perennial favorites such as Yearly Necrologies and Posthumus Reunions.
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/
Virtual Gumshoe-Investigative Resources Available on the Web
Virtualgumshoe is the public records database directory and investigative tools finder used by law enforcement, professional investigators and researchers. Find public records from federal, state, local and national sources. Searches records such as property, inmates, sex offenders, political contributions, background checks and even satellite imagery.
URL: http://www.virtualgumshoe.com/
The VitalSearch Company Worldwide, Inc.
VitalSearch Company Worldwide is used to verify deaths or births by a person's last name or other criteria. Find marriages, divorces and county data as well.
URL: http://www.vitalsearch-worldwide.com/
Web Detective
WebDetective helps find out anything about anyone in less than one minute. Membership based online investigative site.
URL: http://www.web-detective.com/?hop=rdublu
