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  Westlaw – www.lawschool.westlaw.com – Westlaw is West Group's premier online research tool for the legal community. Introduced in 1975, Westlaw enables legal professionals to retrieve cases, statutes, and other documents from West's vast library of legal and business materials in a matter of seconds. Password is required.

  Lexis-Nexis – www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool – Lexis-Nexis offers products and services for legal, business, academic, and government professionals. Password is required for free searching. Non-law students can pay as they go for searching using a credit card.

Newspapers / Periodicals

  Hein-On-Line – www.heinonline.org – Hein-On-Line is a comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals, providing the exact page images of legal journals.

  North Carolina Lawyers Weekly – www.nclawyersweekly.com Founded in 1988, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly reports legal opinions from all the state and federal courts in North Carolina and other news vital to attorneys. Each week, North Carolina Lawyers Weekly is read by virtually all of the state's lawyers, as well as most judges. The information provided on this website is offered for the use of practicing lawyers only. Other readers should not act upon information contained in this material without professional legal counsel.

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Federal

  Federal Register – http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html The Federal Register is a legal newspapers published every business day by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It contains: Federal agency regulations, proposed rules and notices, Executive orders, proclamations and other Presidential documents.

  Code of Federal Regulations – www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/index.html – The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The CFR online is a joint project authorized by the publisher, the National Archives and Records Administration's office of the Federal Register, and the Government Printing Office (GPO) to provide the public with enhanced access to government information.

  White House – www.whitehouse.gov – The official website for the office of the President of the United States of America.

  Thomas Legislative Service – thomas.loc.gov – Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995 at the inception of the 104th Congress. THOMAS currently offers the following services: House floor this week, House floor now, quick search of text of bills, bill summary & status, bill text, public laws by law number, House roll call votes, Senate roll call votes, most recent issue of the Congressional Record, Congressional Record text, Congressional Record Index, Days-In-Session calendars, committee reports, committee homepages, House committees, and Senate committees.

  Congressional Universe – web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/form/cong/index.html – LEXIS-NEXIS Congressional Universe is the world's most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress. With Congressional Universe, you can: search an index of congressional publications from 1970 to the present, retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970, find testimony from congressional hearings, track bills as they move through the House and Senate, search the Congressional Record and Federal Register, locate information about members and committees, & search the National Journal.

  GPO – purl.gpo.gov – The official site for the Government Printing Office.

  Library of Congress – www.loc.gov – The nation's oldest Federal cultural institution. The Library preserves a collection of nearly 121 million items, more than two-thirds of which are in media other than books. These include the largest map, film and television collections in the world. In addition to its primary mission of serving the research needs of the U.S. Congress, the library serves all America through its popular website and in its 22 reading rooms on Capitol Hill.

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State

  North Carolina Government – www.ncgov.com – The official website for the state of North Carolina.

  North Carolina Office of the Governor – www.governor.state.nc.us – The official website for the North Carolina office of the Governor.

  North Carolina Courts – www.nccourts.org – The official website for North Carolina Courts.

  Office of the Attorney General – www.jus.state.nc.us – The official website for North Carolina office of the Attorney General.

  North Carolina Bar Association – www.barlinc.org – The official website for the North Carolina Bar Association.

  North Carolina General Assembly – www.ncleg.net – The official website for the North Carolina General Assembly.

  North Carolina General Statutes – www.ncleg.net/gascripts/statutes/statutestoc.pl – The official website for North Carolina General Statutes.

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  Refdesk.com – www.refdesk.com – An online reference service powered by Google.

  American Bar Association – www.abanet.org – The official website for the American Bar Association. Login may be required.

  National Bar Association – www.nationalbar.org – The official website for the National Bar Association.

  LOIS – www.loislawschool.com – Loislaw.com provides no-cost subscriptions for all full-time law school students and faculty at ABA-accredited law schools. Users must register using the special access code provided by their school. Log-in is required.

  CALI – www.cali.org – CALI, the center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction and supports institutions and individuals using technology in legal education. Password is required when using this site off campus.

  CCH – www.cch.com – The leader in tax and business law information and software for accounting, legal, human resources, securities, insurance, health care and small business professionals.

  Lexisone.com – www.lexisone.com – Lexisone.com is a great site for small law firms. This site includes: legal research forms, news, legal internet guide, client development, professional development, and practice management.

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