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LawCareers.Net

Website of LawCareers.net which provides online information for anyone wishing to follow a legal career in the United Kingdom. The information is made freely available by Globe Business Publishing Ltd in association with the Law Society. Background information is given to becoming a solicitor or barrister along with contact details for firms offering training contracts, vacation work or pupillages. Podcasts covering a range of training topics such as interview technique and working as a trainee are available on the site and a collection of law firms' brochures are available in PDF.

Legal Newsletters

Website of the International Law Office in London a company providing free access to a collection of free online legal newsletters. The newsletters can be browsed by law firm name, subject and jurisdiction or searched using keywords. Subject areas include banking, information technology, intellectual property, insurance, media, litigation and white collar crime. Most sections contain an overview of the subject with updates on more specific topics. Free registration is required to access the site.

World Intellectual Property Organization: Database of WIPO Cases and WIPO Panel Decisions

A free database of internet domain name dispute cases, provided by the World Intellectual Property Organization's Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva. The Center offers alternative dispute resolution services in international commercial disputes between private parties. All the domain name cases back to 1999 are available in the database, searchable by domain name, key word, party names or case number. The full text of the decisions is available. The site also provides indexes of decisions by domain name category and by legal point, together with lists of the most-cited cases.

Albanian Legal Information Initiative

Website of the Albanian Legal Information Initiative, which is based in the Chicago-Kent College of Law at Illinois Institute of Technology. The initiative is part of the 'Rule of Law Through Technology' project, which seeks to increase access to legal information in Albania. The site describes the project and provides a selection of Albanian legal resources, including various treaties and statutes (in French and Turkish), the Albanian Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedural Code (both in English). Parts of the site are password-protected.

American Samoa Government

Official website of the American Samoa Government. The site provides a profile of the Governor and contact details of American Samoa government departments and agencies. There is a selection of official government press releases back to 2004 and background information about the territory including history, geography, climate and population.

American Samoa Bar Association

Website of the American Samoa Bar Association. The 'Legal Resources' section of the website has freely available HTML versions of the American Samoa Constitution, the American Samoa Code and an alphabetical listing of High Court cases which link to the full-text. There is an online law Digest of American Samoa arranged by subject along with a copy of the 'Rules of Court of the Judiciary of American Samoa'. Each of these sections has a search facility.

Citizens Advice

Website provides information for the UK general public on law and rights relating to privacy, benefits, housing, employment, debt, consumer protection, immigration and other topics. It is produced by Citizens Advice. Where appropriate, users are clearly directed to additional sources of expert advice, so that they can find further help on questions. The site is in Welsh and English.

Kingdom of Morocco - Ministry of Justice

Website of the Moroccan Ministry of Justice. The site publishes information about the Ministry and its work It outlines the administration of justice in Morocco and gives details of the court system, including statistics and a directory of courts and tribunals. The site also makes available the Moroccan Constitution, treaties and key legislation including the Family Code and the Commercial Code, all in French. The site interface is available in French, Arabic and English.

Garant : daily monitoring of Russian law

Free legal news service from Garant, a Moscow-based company specialising in the provision of Russian legal information. The Garant site, which is available in English and Russian, provides daily Russian legal updates (including amendments and decisions), giving the date, title and a brief summary. Garant also offers a fee-based database of Russian legislation, in English and Russian.

Azerbaijan Law Guide

A freely available annotated research guide to Azerbaijan Internet sources compiled by the Law Library of Congress in Washington DC. Categories include subjects such as constitution, executive, judicial, legislative and legal guides. There is also a section which includes links to sites giving general and human rights information on Azerbaijan.

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