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Gazette du Palais

The Gazette du Palais is a law journal and news service for the French legal profession, published since 1881. Its website includes contents lists and article summaries from recent issues; a subscription is needed for full access. The site is in French.

Law Society of Ireland

Website of the Law Society of Ireland. The Society, established in 1773, works to improve access to the law generally and also provides representation, services and support for solicitors. It exercises statutory functions in relation to the education, admission, enrolment, discipline and regulation of the solictors' profession. The site provides an overview of the work of the society and of the legal profession in Ireland.

New Zealand Law Society

The website of the New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) provides information about the work of the organisation, including its committees and sections. Selected articles from "LawTalk" (the NZLS magazine) are available back to 2008. The site also includes other NZLS publications, information about practising law in New Zealand, general legal information for the public, news and other resources.

City Legal Information Group

Website for the City Legal Information Group (formerly known as the City Law Librarians Group) an association for legal information professionals based in central London in the UK. The CLIG takes its membership from law firm librarians, academic librarians and other legal information specialists working around the city. The Group organises regular meetings to enhance professional development and facilitate training and opportunities for establishing contacts and exchanging information.

Law Society Gazette

Online version of the long-established weekly journal of legal news and comment for solicitors of England and Wales. Includes to legal news, opinion, information and job vacancies. A searchable archive contains issues from 1986 onwards. A link to the website of the publisher, the Law Society of England and Wales, is also available.

British Employment Law

Internet site dedicated to UK employment law materials and matters, developed by DiscLaw Publishing Ltd and designed for employers, employees, lawyers and other professionals. The site is divided into a professional area with chargeable password access providing indexed and annotated copies of relevant legislation, forms and commentary by employment law experts and a free area with extracts from and index to the full service. The free section also features a service for locating UK solicitors with employment law expertise.

New Law Journal

Web pages for the New Law Journal, long established weekly news journal of legal happenings, practice, scholarship and debate, published by LexisNexis Butterworths. The site offers the contents of the latest issue only, with very limited online items in HTML format. An annual index of articles published in the print journal from 1997 onwards is also available. The site includes details of back copy ordering and subscriptions.

Entertainment and Sports Lawyer

This is the website for Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, published quarterly by the Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries of the American Bar Association. The Entertainment and Sports Lawyer is directed at lawyers who devote a major portion of their practice to entertainment, sports, arts, intellectual property law, and other related areas. It endeavours to provide current, practical information as well as public policy and scholarly viewpoints that it believes to be of professional and academic interest to Forum members and other readers.

Kieron Wood's pages

Website of Kieron Wood, a barrister practising in Dublin, Ireland. The site contains articles, features and information on Irish legal matters. There are sections dealing with family law and civil law covering divorce, marriage, links to Irish family legislation, citizenship, labour law and defamation law in Ireland. There is a glossary of legal terms, contact details for other Irish barristers and a page of links to Irish legal sites.

General Council of The Bar

The Bar Council is the professional body representing barristers in England and Wales. The site provides information about the role of the Bar Council, the work of its various committees and copies of its annual reports. There is background information about barristers and their work, circuits, the Inns of Court and specialist bar associations. Details are given of the services the Bar Council provides for barristers, rules and guidance and a link to the online Bar Directory. Guidance is available for people instructing a barrister and shopping for legal services.
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