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FLORIDA BAR

   The Florida Bar's website is  http://www.flabar.org/

FLORIDA COURT OPINIONS

Florida Law Weekly's website is  http://www.FloridaLawWeekly.com/
One nice feature they have is cross citations allowing one to locate the Sourthern Second citation based on the Florida Law Weekly citation.  You don't have to have a subscription to use this service.

Although I use Westlaw, I was very impressed with  Case Crawler http://www.casecrawler.com for searching court opinions.

The Florida Courts System is divided into five districts which are made up of 20 circuits containing 67 counties. Links are provided below to review a brief description of each of these different jurisdictions and to access the available pages for the respective courts.

     Florida Supreme Court  http://www.flcourts.org/

     First District Court of Appeal http://www.1dca.org/
            Opinions are located at  http://199.242.71.206/opinions.html

     Second District Court of Appeal http://www.2dca.org/
            Opinions are located at  http://www.2dca.org/opinions.htm

     Third District Court of Appeal  http://www.3dca.flcourts.org/

     Fourth District Court of Appeal  http://www.4dca.org/
            Opinions are located at        http://www.4dca.org/opfrm.html/a>

     Fifth District Court of Appeal  http://www.5dca.org/

     For a listing of county clerks' offices click here

     Sixth Judicial Circuit

     Thirteenth Judicial Circuit

FLORIDA LAW SCHOOLS

   Barry University Law School  http://www.uo.edu/lawsch/main.htm

  Florida Coastal School of Law  http://www.fcsl.edu/

 Florida State University College of Law  http://www.law.fsu.edu/

 Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center  http://www.nsulaw.nova.edu/

 Stetson University College of Law  http://www.law.stetson.edu/

 St. Thomas University School of Law  http://www.stu.edu/

 University of Florida Levin College of Law  http://www.law.ufl.edu/

 University of Miami School of Law  http://www.law.miami.edu/
 
 

FLORIDA STATUTES, RULES, CODES, ETC.

All Florida Statutes and pending bills canbe located at the legislature's web site  http://www.leg.state.fl.us/ .  The statutes can be located at  http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Tab=statutes&submenu=-1&Mode=Main

   Florida Standard Jury Instructions

   Florida Administrative Weekly

   Florida Administrative Code

   Florida Attorney General Opinions

    Florida Municipal Codes

   Tampa Code of Ordinances
 

LAW REVIEWS

      Law Library of Congress

      Florida State University Law Review

      Journal of Land Use and Envrionmental Law

      Stetson Law Review

      Stetson Law Forum

LEGAL NEWSLETTERS

There has been a barrage of electronic newsletters, some of them focusing on law. As this area is constantly changing, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the links or the addresses. However,the following are some of the more useful sites. 

  Lawyers' Weekly

   Find Law

MISCELLANEOUS SITES

     These are sites sent to me by subscribers to my newsletter.  Anyone else interested in having a link to their site, please email me.

     For realestate attorneys, especially members of the Attorneys Title Insurance Fund,David Slachter has set up an excellent site.  http://www.slachter.com

     For anyonelooking for a good personal injury firm in Tampa, go to  http://www.barrmurman.com features their defense practice and mediation practice. www.barrmurmantonelli.com    features their plaintiff practice.

    My brother, who has spent over twenty years with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office, has an independent consulting business on domestic violence.  It'swebsite is http://www.nicp.net .

       Mark R. Osherow has a pretty nifty site  http://www.osherowlaw.com   For some of his case law updates  click here.

       Steve Fahlgren is with an Orlando firm handling cases involving consumer litigation,commercial litigation, employment law, and technology law.  http://www.fortheconsumer.com

     Chris Shulman is a certified circuit-civil and county mediator, an arbitrator in Florida courts, and a member of the NASD Dispute Resolution Roster of Neutrals (Arbitration and Mediation).  He also does a great deal of Equal Employment Opportunity work as a neutral mediator, arbitrator, investigator, and federal agency decision-writer. His site is  http://www.eeo-solutions.com

   Lorne Hunsberger is an accountant in north Tampa, whose website is  

  http://www.numberdoctor.com

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