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Litigation Support
- American Arbitration Association
- CyberSettle - New settlement tool
- DepoNet - includes court reporters & process servers
- E-fax - use e-mail to send/receive faxes plus an 800 number for faxes. Pretty cheap.
- Federal Express
- Iowa Association For Dispute Resolution
- Law Journal Extras Litigation Support - searchable by company or service
- Law Links
- Lawyer's Toolbox - from Randy Singer. Very very handy links.
- National Association of Professional Process Servers
- United Parcel Service
- Yahoo's Law related businesses
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Court Reporters
- Court Reporter Net - based on an Iowa Server
- DepoNet - world wide court reporters search
- Doyle Court reporters - reserve one on-line. Nationwide.
- An Iowa Court Report - useful site
- Law Journal Extras Litigation Support
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Expert Witnesses
- All associations on the web - including trade, vocational, hobby and professional associations. Go to the "gateway".
- American Medical Association
- Expert Pages
- NoCall Expert Witness Information on the Internet
- ExpertLaw
- Expert4law
- Internet Directory of Expert Witnesses
- Internet Legal Research Guides' Directory of Experts - links may be a little out of date
- National Directory of Expert Witnesses
- Catalaws links to expert witness sites
- Law.com experts
- Legal Research Network has an expert witness network. You must pay $$
- Yahoo's expert witness links
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Travel & Weather - [ General Travel | Hotels | Maps | Weather ]
- General Travel
  - Iowa
    - Yahoo Local for Iowa
    - CityLink's Iowa Page
    - Local Des Moines Info
    - Local Iowa City Info
    - Rural Iowa Community Web - Community info for some very small towns indeed.
    - Iowa Department of Transportation's Update on Road Work in Iowa
    - DOT update on weather related road conditions
    - DOT winter road condition's page
    - University of Iowa Travel Department has some up-to-date tips on Iowa travel and travel links.
    - Hy Vee Food Stores in Iowa - Food, medicine, a courtesy counter and an ATM teller. What else could you need?
  - Outside Iowa
    - CityNet
    - Infoseek's Travel info
    - The Travel Channel
    - State Department - Consular Affairs
    - Check out the World Fact Book at the CIA site.
    - The Center for Disease Control has some advice on travel as well.
    - Continental Airlines
    - United Airlines
- Hotels & Motels
  - Travel info including Iowa motels - When you get there click on "start search" to get going. Great travel links. Even has listings for many Iowa towns. Just name, address, phone and e-mail if applicable. No details but still very good considering the size of the towns.
  - Best Western
  - Comfort Inn and related motels
  - Hilton Hotels
  - Holiday Inn Select
  - Hyatt Hotels & Resorts
  - Marriott Hotels
  - Iowa Bed & Breakfast Directory - just don't bill your client for it
  Maps
  - Map maker - enter an address and get a map. Can zoom out if you wish.
  - Another map maker just in case the other is busy
  - Yahoo's mapping service
  - County Level Map - Iowa only. Just click county level data and you'll get a map too.
  - Driving distance calculator
  - ^newAerial photos - you can search for photos by address
  - ^newIowa Maps from the DOT - includes detailed city maps
  Weather
  - Central Iowa Weather from the Weather Service
  - KGAN - very nice Iowa weather. Includes radar maps & road conditions - click on "weather"
  - WHO-TV - follow weather link for central Iowa weather
  - Iowa State Extension Service weather - includes info to help with growing stuff
  - The Weather Underground - fantastic
  - The Weather Channel
  - FreeseNotice Weather
  - NBC's Intellicast Weather
  - National Weather Service
  - Farmer's Almanac - long range forecasts and historical data
  - Historical Weather Data
  - DOT update on weather related road conditions
  - DOT winter road condition's page
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News
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Finding People [Phone Book | College Directories | Special Investigative Tools]
- World & USA People & Business Search
  - Big Yellow - Very flexible search. Nationwide. All search fields are optional. now powered by switchboard.
  - InfoSpace - people, business, and government. Nationwide. Reverse search by phone number or address.
  - Switchboard - Nationwide
  - Ultimate White Pages - Search multiple directories from one site.
  - U.S. West White Pages - Very nice. Now has nationwide search.
  - Any Who - has reverse searches. Can find by address ( using * for last name)
  - U.S. West Yellow Pages - businesses
  - Who Where - flexible search ability - all residential included. Nationwide.
  - Worldpages - Search individuals or business. Has SIC code and keyword search. 1 state at a time.
  - ^newWhitepages.com - has reverse search and area code lookup
  - Bigfoot - by name only
  - 555-1212.com - now fee based.
  - ^newReverse address lookup
  Links to Phone Books
  - The Ultimate Set of Links to Other Phone Books
  - Yahoo's Phone book links
- College Phone Books (Iowa & Surrounding)
  - Iowa State University Phone Book - gopher or web version
  - University of Nebraska at Omaha also has multiple links to other college phone books
  - University of Iowa Phone Book
  - University of Northern Iowa's Phone Book
  - More links to other college phone books
  - Buena Vista College - get the name only
  - Central College (Pella) Phone Book
  - Clarke College - student e-mail directory
  - Coe College - student e-mail directory
  - Cornell College Phone Book
  - Des Moines Area Community College Phone Book - try the gopher directly
  - Drake University Phone Book
  - Grinnell College - name only and e-mail if they have it
  - Luther College - student e-mail directory
  - Morningside College
  - Simpson College - Indianola. Student e-mail directory
  - Upper Iowa University - In Fayette. Student e-mail directory
  - Creighton's Phone Book
  - Washington University's Phone Book
- Special Tools
  - Links to all iowa assessors who are online.
  - Polk County Assessor's page - property owners will show up even if they are unlisted. Find by address. Get a picture of the place. How much it sold for. A wealth of information.
  - Pottawattamie County Assessor's Page - Click on the assessir's link. The page is much like the Polk county one. Names, addresses , photos and other useful data.
  - Ames City Assessor
  - Emmet County Assessor
  - ^newJohnson County Assessor
  - Shelby County Assessor
  - Story County Assessor
  - Iowa Corporations search from the Iowa Secretary of State
  - Iowa UCC filings database from the Iowa Secretary of State
  - Iowa Sex Offender Registry
  - Iowa Inmate Information
  - Iowa Court docket information^new
  - Links for Investigators - from Iowa Counties
  - Internet Sleuth - for investigators
  - Internet prospector - Dig up some information on someone. Several useful tools.
  - Internet Lawyer tools^new for finding people
  - Sam Spade tools - for advanced cyber-tracking such as tracing e-mail or usenet origins
  - Alta Vista Web & Usenet search - who knows maybe they've set up a web page and/or posted usenet messages
  - ^UpdatedUsenet Search - Search on the "groups" tab. If someone has internet access maybe they've said some useful things on the usenet?
  - The SEC's EDGAR database can get the goods on many corporations
  - Librarian's Index to the Internet - a subject list of databases to search
  - Hoover's Online - a business profile service
  - Iowa Public Safety Department - request an Iowa criminal history on someone
  - Cop Link - links to police agencies world wide
  - State government department directory
  - State of Iowa employee phone book^new
  - ^newReverse address lookup
  - Area Code / Prefix Lookup - type in number and find where the phone is at
  - Ever thought - maybe they're dead?. Check it out at the Social Security Death Index Search.
  - Long shots - try this alumi search., or this one or try high school alumni.
  - Check out political contributions.
  - Deep Data - a fee based site will search property records, ownership data and a trace of someone's whereabouts based on SS#
  - The Internet Department of Motor Vehicles - for $$ gets driver's record info., motor vehicle registration - the works
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Reference Materials & Census Data - General Reference | Legal Reference | Census
- General Reference
  - The Smithsonian Institute - also check their library
  - The Internet Public Library
  - The Big Hub - rest assured you can find it here
  - Vanderbilts' Electronic Library - also has periodical's database searches
  - FAQ-o-rama - Links to files with answers to the ubiquitous "Frequently Asked Questions"
  - Iowa Library Network - many Iowa libraries
  - State of Iowa Libraries Online [SILO] - check out the card catalog
  - ISU Library
  - UNI's Card Catalog
  - University of Iowa's Library - for card catalog go to "oasis" under services or try the web page card catalog
  - Grinnell College Library -The College has reference links
  - Links to Iowa Library Card Catalogs on-line - from IREN
  - More links to on-line Iowa libraries
  - Even more on-line card catalogs
  - Links to many many maps & some other reference material
  - Calculate the binomial online - put in nfor n, o for k and p for p. Be carfeul its math!
  - Webster's Dictionary
  - Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  - Interface to 60 dictionaries
  - Dictionary.com
  - The Elements of Style - the classic from Strunk & White. Don't just view it. Get it. Get it now.
  - The Blue Book - uniform system of legal citation
  - Thesaurus
  - Bartlett's Quotations - at Columbia
  - Electronic Texts On-Line
    - Project Gutenberg - huge project is also here
    - On Line Books page also from CMU
    - Project Bartleby - Surely " Bartleby the Scrivener". I'd tell the story but " prefer not to".
    - Bibliomania
    - Wiretap's listing of E-texts
    - More Full Texts
- Legal Reference
  - Practioner's Handbook from the 8th Circuit^Updated
  - New Lawyer Survival Guide - from Lawyer's Weekly^Updated
  - Oran's Legal Dictionary
  - Nolo Press Legal Encyclopedia
  - Nolo Press law dictionary
  - Counsel Quest Legal Forms
  - Legal forms
  - More legal forms
  - Some simple contracts
  - LexisOne^new has legal forms too
  - Vanderbilts' Legal Reference Material
- Census Data
  - Us Department of Census
  - Iowa Census Data - Profiles
  - Iowa Census Data from Iowa State Census Services which also has census links
  - Iowa Labor Market Information from Workforce Development
  - Lots of Population & Demographic Links
  - The government information sharing project has CD based demographic and economic info
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Legal Professional Associations
- American Arbitration Association - how to start program, forms to download etc.
- American Bar Association has a list of law related associations.
- American Judicature Society
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Iowa Law School's CLE site
- Iowa State Bar Association's Calendar including CLE Info.
- The Iowa State Bar Association - including, Iowa Supreme Court Opinons, Ethics Opinions database etc.
- Iowa State Bar Assocation - CLE calendar
- National Organization of Social Security Claimant's Representatives
- National Bar Association - founded in Des Moines!
- National Employment Lawyers Assocation
- Law Journal Extra's links by practice area
- Association of Paralegal Associations - has links by practice area
- The National Center for State Court's listing of law related associations on the internet

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