Use these Quick Links to Faciliate Your Legal and Business Research

 

Investigative Research: Public Records and “Publicly Available” Information

 

VT League of Cities and Towns, Public Record Law:  http://www.vlct.org/vermontlocalgovernment/accesstopublicrecordslaw/

 

NH Public Records Law: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-VI-91-A.htm

 

Starting Points-Large Collections of Public Record Links

BRB Pubs:                   http://www.brbpub.com/  

Search Systems:           http://www.searchsystems.net

Legal Dockets Online:  http://www.legaldockets.com/

Virtual Gumshoe:         http://www.virtualgumshoe.com/

Black Book:                http://www.blackbookonline.info/

 

Professional Licenses

State of Vermont:  http://www.vermont.gov/portal/

Secretary of State:  http://www.sec.state.vt.us/    (look for "professional regulation")

Attorney Licensing:  http://www.vermontjudiciary.org/BBE/bbelibrary/mcledefault.aspx

Disciplinary Actions:  http://www.vtprofessionals.org  (see "unprofessional conduct decisions")

Teacher Disciplinary Actions:  http://www.state.vt.us/educ/new/html/licensing/disciplinary.html

Doctor Disciplinary Actions:  http://healthvermont.gov/hc/med_board/actions.aspx

Physician "snapshot": http://www.docboard.org/vt/df/vtsearch.htm

Physician "snapshot", other states:  http://www.docboard.org/docfinder.html

To Locate a Physician:  http://dbapps.ama-assn.org/aps/amahg.htm

Physician Specialties:  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html

Board Certifications, Physicians:  http://www.abms.org/login.asp

 

Criminal Records

Vermont Sex Offender Registry:  http://170.222.137.2:8080/sor/

New Hampshire Sex Offenders:  http://www.egov.nh.gov/nsor/

National Sex Offender Registry:  http://www.sexoffender.com/search.html

General Offenders:                     http://www.vinelink.com/vinelink/initMap.do

Vermont Dept. of Corrections:   http://doc.vermont.gov/offender-locator/

NH Dept. of Corrections:          http://www.nh.gov/nhdoc/

Federal Bureau of Prisons:         http://www.bop.gov

Article on Searching for Criminal Records:  http://www.llrx.com/features/criminal2.htm

 

Vital Statistics: Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records

Vermont Vital Records (to order):  http://healthvermont.gov/research/records/vital_records.aspx

Search for a VT Vital Record:        http://www.vitalrec.com/vt.html   but see www.Ancestry.com

Geneology:                                    http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/USA/vt.html

Social Security Death Index:          http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/

 

Real and Personal Property Records

Vermont Property Valuation and Review:  http://www.state.vt.us/tax/pvr.shtml

Vermont Property Transfer Data:              http://www.state.vt.us/tax/propertytransferdata.shtml

Fee-based Property Transfer Data:           http://www.visionappraisal.com/databases/

City of Burlington Grand List:                   http://www.ci.burlington.vt.us/assessor/

Selected Additional VT Towns:                http://indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/personalproperty.html

                                                                http://homepage.mac.com/researchventures/

Selected VT Town Codes:                       http://vermont-towns.org/

Town Codes other than VT:                     http://www.generalcode.com/webcode2.html

                                                               http://www.bpcnet.com/codes.htm

NH Cities and Towns, List:                      http://www.nh.gov/municipal/index.html

HUD Geographic Mapping:                     http://egis.hud.gov/egis/

 

 

 Practice Tools

 

Sample Briefs, Motions, Complaints and Settlements

Delaware Court of Chancery:     http://courts.delaware.gov/Courts/Court%20of%20Chancery/

Class Action Filings:                   http://securities.stanford.edu/index.html.

Briefs, Generally:                        http://www.briefreports.com/

PACER Electronic Records:       http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov

 

Sample Forms and Contracts

General Collections:                   http://www.findlaw.com    

                                                 http://www.lawinfo.com/index.cfm

                                                 http://www.llrx.com/courtrules/

                                                 http://www.lexisone.com/

Vermont Forms, Contracts:       http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/federal/2c.html

                                                 http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/states/vt.html

Vermont Bankruptcy Forms:      http://www.vtb.uscourts.gov/

Vermont Forms (fillable):           http://www.vermontjudiciary.org/eforms/default.aspx

Non-state Specific:                    http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/collections.html

VT Corp.,Business Forms:         http://www.sec.state.vt.us/tutor/dobiz/dobizdoc.htm#forms

Free, Low-Cost Forms              http://www.allaboutforms.com/

Immigration Forms:                    http://www.ilw.com/immigrants/forms/

Securities:                                  http://www.sec.gov/