Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory
Sponsored by Martindale-Hubbell, premier legal directory publishers.  Attorneys keep their books in the law library for reference.  This on-line version makes the same resource readily available to the general public.

State of California, Division of Industrial Accidents
This page is provided by the California as a "gov" resource.  Within the government is the Division of Industrial Accidents which operates the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, the Industrial Medical Council and the Division of Worker's compensation.  To facilitate professional practice, some forms are provided.

 California Workers' Compensation Institute

The CWCI is a private membership organization for workers' compensation practitioners.

Download the form called "Doctor's First Report of Injury" required to be filed within five (5) days of first seeing the injured worker.

The bookstore offers a list of affordable publications for physicians and others with an interest in workers' compensation issues. One particularly valuable publication would be the Treating Physician's Guide to Workers' Compensation
 

 The WCAB supports Title 8 of the California Administrative Code with a search engine. You can get authoritative answers to your questions here.

Here you will find the California Labor Code, statutory resource on which the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board exercises jurisdiction.

Among several fantastic sites for Workers' Compensation professionals are Work Comp Central and Workers Compensation Forums.  The research   section runs the whole gamut of worker's  compensation research materials  - case law, sample briefs, statutes, and regulations included.

 Locate California Workers' Compensation Appeals Boards

 Part of the WC Forum, it gives full location and contact information

 Orthopaedic Patient Education

By Medical Multi Media Group, this resource provides a large number of topics of interest in the area of orthopaedic injuries.

NOAH
 
Links to sechrest for discussion of carpal tunnel but has other links for other  repetitive use conditions. They are supported by NY Library and other distinguished NY Institutions. Excellent resource for our readers to learn about health conditions.

 IMAK Products

          This company makes slip on gloves and braces to help people with Carpal
          Tunnel Syndrome. A brace is the first mode of treatment.  The doctor in
          charge is a workers' compensation evaluator.

 National Library of Medicine

National Network of Libraries of Medicine - Loansome.doc

US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California

For Southern California practitioner's, this court's home page with forms, Local Rules, links and other valuable resources is indispensable.  You can use either Adobe Acrobat or Word Perfect to download.

Internet Online Library - Worldwide Troubled Company Resources

Hosted by Bankruptcy Creditors' Service and the Beard Group, Inc., this page pertains to bankruptcy law only.  It has world wide bankruptcy resources, news, information about conferences and meetings, a list of bankruptcy professionals, links to bankruptcy resources and publications.

Attorney J. Scott Williams of Rus, Miliband, Williams and Smith is very active in the field of bankruptcy law in the Inland Empire (Riverside, San Bernardino) and Orange County areas of Southern California. We have targeted a Bankruptcy research facility in our Legal Research section of links that is established for this page.

 California Statutes

The most fundamental and important resource imaginable for legal research in California law is this complete collection of California Codes.

Lawrunner - A Legal Research Tool

This page is part of the “Uniform Legal Resources Guide”. It utilizes special search agents developed in   conjunction with Alta Vista to facilitate legal research.

  Internet Legal Resource Guide

 Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute

          Referred by the US Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California,
          this appears to be one of the better legal research facilities on the internet.

California Estate Planning

Sponsored by the Castleman law firm in Pleasonton, California (east bay on the way to Livermore) this page on California estate planning, probate and trust law is a good starting point to explore the field. It has articles such as  “Estate and Gift Tax Changes for 1998”, news articles, a booklet forms for wills, power of attorney, living wills and the usual links to other web resources for California estate planning. There’s a special section on famous persons’ wills if you’re interested.

This employment forum is sponsored by the Mortimer law office in San Francisco, California. It is a good place to go for a legal synopsis of what laws may be applicable to certain recurring problems in the work place. There are news stories, illustrations and links to other pages for employment law issues.

 California Judicial Council Forms

LA County Superior Court - Local Rules

 Alan J. Schnurman is a New York lawyer who has been broadcasting a legal      topics radio show called "Lawonline" in the New York area for 17 years and      has 350 shows “in thecan”. We have Real Audio and were able to listen to his introductory comments with that software. Real Audio can be downloaded, it costs about $50. Not a bad thing to have on your computer but you need good high speed access to get quality sound. There are free audio downloads on the page from Microsoft (Windows Media Player) and Real Player. The Microsoft Internet Explorer has audio bundled.

This page offers programming of interest to lawyers and to consumers. There is on-line legal education, legal public affairs, bar association programming and broadcasts geared to the consumer who needs to know about the law or how to go about hiring an attorney.