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LEGAL ADVICE ONLINE - WEBSITE LISTINGS

Nolo.com (US) - Nolo is the nation's oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. Nolo.com features tons of free legal content, books, forms, software, and an extensive nation-wide lawyer directory. Nolo is the nation s leading provider of do-it-yourself legal solutions for consumers and small businesses. Since 1971, Nolo has offered affordable, plain-English books, forms and software on a wide range of legal issues, including materials on human resources, employment, intellectual property, and starting and running a small business. Everything they publish is regularly revised, updated and improved by a staff of lawyer-editors.

In the early 1970s, co-founder Ralph Jake Warner was a legal aid lawyer, serving low-income families in the San Francisco Bay area. Frustrated by having to turn away working people who didn t qualify for free legal aid but couldn t afford lawyers, Warner and colleague Ed Sherman began writing do-it-yourself legal guides. After numerous publishers rejected them, Warner and Sherman began publishing the books themselves. When personal computers came along, Nolo started developing software. And when the Internet arrived, Nolo created a website that offered free information, online document preparation, and useful links. Today, the company still operates out of a former clock factory in Berkeley, California, and remains true to the original vision of its founders. Warner remains active as CEO of Nolo. (www.nolo.com )

Uslegalforms.com (US) - U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. is the leading publisher of State Specific legal forms over the Internet. Whether you are an attorney, small business or consumer, USLF provides you fast results, at a reasonable price, in an easy and accurate manner, to satisfy your immediate State Specific form needs. U. S. Legal Forms, Inc. was founded by attorneys and employs a staff of attorneys and professionals that maintain the site and the products provided online. (www.uslegalforms.com )

Findlaw.com (US, worldwide) - FindLaw, a Thomson Reuters business, is the world's leading provider of online legal information and Internet marketing solutions for law firms. FindLaw's roots go back to 1995, when two attorneys compiled a list of Internet resources for a group of law librarians in northern California. The response to the material was so positive they decided to post the information on the Internet. Launched on Jan. 9, 1996, FindLaw.com soon offered a mix of cases, statutes, legal news, a lawyer directory, an online career center and community-oriented tools such as mailing lists and message boards. The Web site rapidly developed into the leading legal information site on the Internet.

West Group, a Thomson Corporation business unit, recognized FindLaw.com as a powerful tool for reaching legal professionals and for connecting attorneys with people in need of legal representation. In Jan. 2001, FindLaw and its 55 employees became part of West Group. The company enhanced the legal information portal while rapidly developing its law firm online marketing business and client development solutions. (www.findlaw.com )

Freeadvice.com (US) - FreeAdvice.com is a unit of Advice Company (formerly Advice and Counsel Incorporated) founded in 1991, and an Internet leader since 1995. The Company s experienced, seasoned and technologically proficient Management Team is headed by the Company s Founder CEO, Gerry Goldsholle. He is a graduate of William Mary, Columbia Law School and Stanford Business School s Executive Program. He formerly was Chief Brokerage Executive of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the President CEO of MetLife Marketing Corporation. He served for many years as the chair of committees of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the New York City Bar Association. (www.freeadvice.com )

Avvo.com (US) - Avvo is a free website that helps consumers handle their legal matters. To do this, Avvo rates and profiles over 90% of licensed attorneys in the U.S. including client reviews, lawyer disciplinary histories and peer endorsements. Avvo also has a collection of lawyer-submitted legal guides and a free question and answer form where people can ask lawyers legal questions, anonymously if desired. Avvo has $3 million in venture financing from Benchmark Capital and a $10 million from Ignition Partners. Avvo generates revenue by selling advertising and other services primarily to lawyers.

Avvo is short for avvocato which means lawyer in Italian. Avvo s origins reportedly start in Italy, where Avvo co-founder Mark Britton, a former lawyer at Expedia.com, was teaching finance for a year. During this time he noticed that, even though he was gone for a year, with the Atlantic Ocean in between, he was still repeatedly contacted by friends, family, and acquaintances - all seeking his advice on their legal issue. (www.avvo.com )

Legalzoom.com (US) - LegalZoom.com, Inc. is an online legal documentation service that was founded by Robert Shapiro, Brian P. Y. Liu, Brian S. Lee, and Edward R. Hartman. In addition to providing online document assembly of legal documents, LegalZoom provides a legal education center and articles on the legal aspect of current events. The company is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. LegalZoom began offering legal services products to the public on March 12, 2001. Shapiro and Hartman joined Liu and Lee to form the company to respond to a perceived need for documents that could create wills, adjudicate in small claims court, and provide help in other legal matters.

LegalZoom provides legal documents in the categories of business formation, intellectual property, estate and personal planning. The company also provides a directory of attorneys as a certified California attorney referral service. (www.legalzoom.com )

Lawguru.com (US) - The LawGuru.com website is owned and operated by WebSiteBroker, Inc. a California Corporation. The LawGuru team includes a group of individuals ranging from attorneys (who run the company) - to software engineers, programmers and designers (who work to improving the site) - to customer service representatives. In addition, LawGuru rely on more than 5,000 Attorney Members who make up the LawGuru community, many of whom have provided free answers to legal questions for over a decade. (www.lawguru.com )

Worldlawdirect.com (US, worldwide) - WORLD Law Direct is the leading interactive provider of U.S. and international legal solutions. WORLD Law Direct has 400 affiliate lawyers in the U.S. and worldwide.

In 1998, partners from five of the world's leading international law firms met to discuss the impact of the Internet on the provision of legal services. Out of that meeting grew several software prototypes for simplifying the most common legal issues, entering them into complex database delivery systems and creating the first automated system to address over 6000 common legal issues and problems. (www.worldlawdirect.com )

Thelaw.com - Legal advice since 1995. TheLaw.com provides free legal advice from lawyers and attorneys. (www.thelaw.com )

Justanswer.com - JustAnswer is an online Expert question and answer website that connects people with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, and other industry Experts. Conceptualized in 2003 by CEO Andy Kurtzig, JustAnswer provides an online platform where people can ask questions and receive personalized insight from Experts. On the website, JustAnswer users ask a question and select the category and price they are willing to pay for a helpful Expert response.

JustAnswer's hundreds of affiliates work in partnership to bring new questions to the JustAnswer network. Affiliates can direct traffic to JustAnswer via customizable dynamic creatives that allow them to target particular categories and subjects. Among JustAnswer s more recent partnerships are the Ask a Lawyer service from Nolo Press and Ask an Automotive Electrical Systems Mechanic Online as a support option on the Remy Power Products website. Some organizations pursue revenue partnerships with JustAnswer to have their users ask questions on the JustAnswer network, while others do it to support their products and even sign up their own Experts.(www.justanswer.com/law )

Uslaw.com (US) - USLaw.com provides a library of legal information, as well as the ability to find a qualified lawyer, chat with an attorney and build a legal document services. (www.uslaw.com )

Legal-advice-library.info - Legal advice library focusing on in legal issues and resources for California, Las Vegas Texas. (www.legal-advice-library.info )

Lawinfo.com - Established in 1994, LawInfo is recognized nationwide as a leader within the legal community, providing public access to pre-qualified, pre-screened attorneys, and to free legal resources. LawInfo's corporate offices are located in San Marcos, California, thirty minutes north of San Diego.

LawInfo signature service, the Lead Counsel Program*, was designed to provide a simple and reliable way for anyone on the Web to find a pre-qualified, pre-screened attorney quickly and easily. Lead Counsel Members must earn the right to use the Lead Counsel designation by passing our challenging certification process, which mandates peer recommendations, bar checks, and minimum practice area experience. (www.lawinfo.com )

Website-law.co.uk (UK) - A website dedicated to helping web developers and webmasters ensure that their sites comply with the varied and ever-changing requirements of English law.

Although it is relatively simple to create and publish a website, the legal consequences of those simple acts can be complex - and potentially expensive. A myriad of different UK and EU laws intrude upon website design, domain name choice, website content, sales from websites, and indeed every other aspect of e-commerce and online activity. (www.website-law.co.uk )

Legaljunction.co.uk (UK) - Solicitor, legal advice, lawyer law links directory. LegalJunction.co.uk is owned by Zise Marketing. (www.legaljunction.co.uk )

Adviceguide.org.uk (UK) - Produced by Citizens Advice, you can get information for all four UK countries. The Adviceguide website is the main public information service of Citizens Advice, providing people with round-the-clock access to CAB information on their rights - including benefits, housing and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues. (www.adviceguide.org.uk )

Expertlaw.com - ExpertLaw.com was founded in 1997 to provide a free mechanism by which attorneys could locate expert witnesses in a wide variety of fields, without cost. As much as possible, we wish to remove the middle man, allowing attorneys to retain experts without paying finders fees or referral fees. In addition, ExpertLaw.com provide free legal information, to assist experts, attorneys, and the general public on legal issues, and to provide information of interest to expert witnesses and litigation attorneys. (www.expertlaw.com )

Legalmatch.com - LegalMatch is a private U.S. corporation established in 1999 as a free, online legal matching service to help people find prescreened local lawyers, and to help attorneys get leads matching their legal specialty. LegalMatch operates its legal matching service in all 50 United States. LegalMatch is based in San Francisco, CA and has additional offices in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA.

LegalMatch assists people who need to find an attorney for their legal problems, including family law, criminal law, real estate, bankruptcy, personal injury, immigration, and intellectual property. LegalMatch charges attorneys membership fees to participate in the service and the lawyer search is free to users. Clients answer questions online at the LegalMatch website to identify the type of service required, and relevant lawyers are notified. Later, the client is able to review responses from lawyers in order to decide which lawyer, if any, to contact. (www.legalmatch.com )

Megalaw.com - MegaLaw.com was founded as a collaboration between two attorneys and a software engineering/website design specialist, making MegaLaw.com the first Website By Lawyers, For Lawyers . (www.megalaw.com )

Canadalegal.com (Canada) - Directory of Canadian legal resources on the Internet. (www.canadalegal.com )

Gottrouble.com - GotTrouble.com finds local solutions to everyday problems. Launched on July 4, 2000, GotTrouble.com delivers time-critical information and local resources for people facing life-changing legal and financial trouble.

GotTrouble.com is the only one-stop resource and directory designed exclusively for people facing serious legal and financial trouble and everything in between. Unlike lawyer sites that focus only on the law and lawyers; GotTrouble.com focuses on the consumer and provides a one-stop bundled solution offering a complete array of legal and nonlegal experts and financial resources aimed at getting consumers beyond their trouble and back on their feet. (www.gottrouble.com )

Thefreedictionary.com (US, worldwide) - TheFreeDictionary.com is an online dictionary and encyclopedia that gathers information from a variety of sources. This site cross references the contents of Wikipedia, Columbia Encyclopedia, Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Acronym Finder database, several financial dictionaries, legal dictionaries, and other content. The site also has a feature which allows a user to preview an article while positioning the mouse cursor over a link. One can also double click on any word and look it up in the dictionary. The site is run by Farlex, Inc.

Farlex Inc. also maintains the companion title TheFreeLibrary.com, an online library of out-of-copyright classic books and a collection of periodicals of over two million articles dating back to 1984, and Sex-Lexis.com, a dictionary of sexual slang and other terms. (www.legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com )