Online Resources

LEGAL
	Legal Business Types
	http://www.itslegal.com/infonet/business/biz-types.html
	Source for do it yourself legal solutions and Legal information network. General information on the basic types of business organizations: the sole proprietorship, the partnership, the corporation, and the limited liability company (the "LLC"). Also professionals variations, including physicians, attorneys, accountants and other licensed professions.
	NUPPLegal
	http://www.nupplegal.com/main.html
	This website is a resource for downloadable professional legal forms including Human Resource documents, business formation, real estate, bills of sale, and other legal documents and forms.
	BusinessLaw.com
	http://www.businesslaw.gov/
	BusinessLaw.gov is an online resource guide designed to provide legal and regulatory information to America's small businesses. Because laws and regulations affect every aspect of business strategy, topics covered on the site range from the most basic and crucial, such as choosing a business structure or hiring a lawyer, to highly specialized issues such as e-commerce and exporting. The site also acts as a gateway to federal, state and local information that affects small businesses. From this site, business owners may quickly check zoning codes for their local area, or file a complaint with the Office of the National Ombudsman.
	Nolo's Law for All
	http://www.nolo.com/
	Nolo.com is a website that helps people handle their own everyday legal matters -- or learn enough about them to make working with a lawyer a more satisfying experience. It has a dedicated resource site on legal matters for small businesses. Nolo.com publishes reliable, plain-English books, software, and forms.
	Commercial Law
	http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/commercial.html
	A website of the Cornell's Law School's Legal Information Institute (LII). Internet search engines and ranking systems identify the LII as the most linked to web resource in the field of law. Sites ranging from Academic Info to Fedlaw to the Dow Jones Business Directory, as well as numerous off-line references, e.g., Web Feet, the New York Times, and The National Jurist (4/2000), recommend starting with the LII for law. Commercial law governs the broad areas of business, commerce, and consumer transactions. The Uniform Commercial Code, which has been substantially adopted as statutory law in nearly every state, governs numerous areas of commercial law.
	Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas
	http://www.texasbusinesslaw.org/
	A website of the State Bar of Texas that features on-line legal business resources including links to government entities, law organizations and the Texas Journal of Business law.

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