sharinglaw.net the website of Lisa Nachmias Davis, Attorney at law ELDER LAW LINKS PAGE TWO This page 2 verified and updated May 13, 2006 SITE SEARCH

CORE PRIMARY SOURCES OF LAW (and "key numbers")	CONNECTICUT ELDER LAW RESOURCES	NATIONAL ELDER LAW RESOURCES
GENERAL LEGAL RESEARCH SOURCES	CBA Elder Law Section Home Page	SELECTED SEARCH ENGINES
ELDER LAW: OTHER STATES	INTERNET MAILING LISTS CT Elder Law Discussion	E-NEWS SUBSCRIPTIONS

GENERAL LEGAL RESEARCH RESOURCES and other useful tools                                     Return to Page Index
(in alphabetical order)

CBA Law Links (public)	The CBA's legal links are now better organized and so far as I can tell, all public.
Catalaw	A "metaindex" of law and government (worldwide).
Chesslaw	Peculiar site apparently inspired by a love of chess but this is a really hand-dandy one-page listing of links to laws in all 50 states. Like a condensed Findlaw with NO ADS.
Cornell University Law School's "Legal Information Institute"	Seminal site. Direct links to court decisions -- NONCOMMERCIAL and therefore may be easier to deal with than findlaw -- no advertising.
FindLaw	Comprehensive source of legal information, including searchable U.S. Supreme Court Decisions.
Freedomlaw	Contains a wealth of information to online legal research with very useful evaluation as to dates covered, etc. - included as part of a "self-help legal clinic" with an emphatically Libertarian message, however
Hieros Gamos	A "comprehensive law and government portal" sponsored by Lex Mundi, an association of law firms.  Includes international law.
Indiana University's "Virtual Law Library"	"In 1992, Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington was chosen by CERN, originators of the World Wide Web Consortium, to be the host of the Virtual Library. The World Wide Web Virtual Library is a collection of subject related Websites maintained by institutions throughout the world, each administering a different subject. The project is now managed by a independent committee made up of maintainers of various subject areas."
Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (LII 2003 ed.) by Peter W. Martin	Once again we can thank Cornell University for bringing information to the public -- including the writers of law review articles -- gratis. Seems very thorough although whether it would comply with the latest Blue Book requirements I cannot verify.
Law Guru	A general source of state and federal law.
Legalbitstream	Comprehensive TAX law research. Indispensable.
Mapping (not strictly elder law! :))	mappy.com - far and away the most detailed for international locations maps.google.com (looks cool and neat and you can just move anyplace with the cursor - no need to reload) mapquest.com (the current standard, but beware in remote areas) mapsonus.com (lots of customization available; the biggest maps you can get, but not much subtlety in resolution options) multimap.com (includes International maps) - "online maps to everywhere"
Tim Takacs' Bookmarks	Elder Law websites collected by Tim Takacs, chairperson of NAELA’s technology committee.
Translation tools (use with grain of salt and some knowledge of context!) (to be continued)	babelfish -- the origial. This can be very funny if you translate poetry, but helpful if you just don't have the vocabulary translate.google.com -- is there anything they can't do? Why didn't I invest in Google?

SELECTED SEARCH ENGINES                                                                                                      Return to Page Index

Yahoo	Altavista - has a Babelfish translator	Google - remember it searches PDFs!
Lycos	Excite	Metacrawler
Clusty - groups search results into categories

ELDER LAW RESOURCES -- OTHER STATES                                                                                         Return to Page Index
  (in alphabetical order)

Cornell: state statutes	50 states' statutes SORTED BY SUBJECT!!!
Cornell: other state case library	Don't forget the Cornell University law library as a resource for other state information
CCH financial planning website	Contains interactive map - you click to find out about estate/death taxes in each state!! Seems quite current.
CA law: CANHR	California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (has MMNA figures etc. for "Medical")
FLA law:	Website of Attorney A. Lipman - "Snowbird" guide
MA law:  MANAELA	Now somewhat stale (2004) site of the Massachusetts chapter of NAELA. No legal links, but consumer-directed articles do include things like State Supplement rates and other factual information, and there is a page with "key numbers" (Massachusetts uses a transfer divisor per day rather than monthly.) Members-only listserv is available.
NY law, various:	NY firm Goldfarb & Abrandt's page, www.seniorlaw.com. Get updated NY 2006 penalty rates and other great quantities of NY Medicaid information from the state website or view other NY state publications.
NY law:  Brookdale Center on Aging	Hunter College, City University of New York Site.  Provides list of of Brookdale publications (numerous brochures and studies on gerontological issues, comprehensive information on New York Elder Law issues) available for purchase.
NY Surrogates Court	Surrogate court forms; To search Surrogates Court site
NYS Partnership for Long-Term Care	1999 map of New York nursing home rates by region. Useful because even if you find out the region's "average monthly cost of care," this helps the out-of-state reader figure out which regional rate applies, because it shows the actual counties.
Elderweb.com	Page showing national nursing home rates by region over 25 years, also showing average rates of increase.
FLTCIP	Federal Long-Term Care Insurance Program purports to give regional nursing home rates
State-by-State Medicaid penalties	Click to see a listing of "divisors" for purposes of computing penalty periods -- current to early 2004. From the Elder Law Answer Book 2nd edition, 2004 supplement, Robert Fleming and Lisa Davis authors. Bad formatting!! :) Note that in the members-only section of www.naela.org,you can find Dale Krause's most recent information under "Medicaid desktop manuals" at the bottom left.
National Association of State Medicaid Directors	State-by-state list of waiver programs
PNA List	Partial list of personal needs allowances in various states circa 2004. SEE ALSO Dale Krause's summaries on naela website.
Ombudsmen	Comprehensive list of nursing home ombudsmen in all 50 states, from NCCNHR..
Uniform Laws	Two sites: the official National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (gets you to state's version of uniform act), and the U. Penn. Law School site that has more detailed history, drafts in progress, etc.
State estate taxes	"Center on Budget and Policy Priorities" article on "decoupling" state's estate taxes from the federal state death tax credit
State tax forms	Federation of Tax Administrators - tax forms for every state
Deed preparers	ABA Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section list of attorneys willing to take deed preparation cases from out-of-state colleagues.
Other countries	Wake Forest University Elder Law Clinic site for elder law resources in other countries (Kate Mewhinney)

INTERNET MAILING LISTS                                                                                                                        Return to Page Index

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CT Elder Law Discussion Group:  Unofficial discussion group for CT attorneys representing the interests of the elderly. MEMBERESHIP IS RESTRICTED; your identity / business address will be provided to all participants on a periodic basis.	If your e-mail makes your identity obvious: Send a blank message to  CTElderDiscussion-subscribe@yahoogroups.com If not/not invited: send a REQUEST to CTElderDiscussion@yahoo.com and/or me at davis@sharinglaw.net with your name, firm (or other association), and address. You can check the archives on the yahoogroups.com site if you have subscribed with a yahoo i.d. Click here for instructions.	CTElderDiscussion@yahoogroups.com
ELDERABUSE (by permission only)	Write to list manager, Lori Stiegel, at lstiegel@staff.abanet.org. Your request must include all the following information in the body of the message: your e-mail address, your name, your profession, a statement of your interest/expertise in adult protective services/elder abuse, the name of the organization for which you work (if applicable) and its address, and your phone number so that you can be contacted in the event of an e-mail problem.	elderabuse@mail.abanet.org
ELDERBAR (Law and Aging Network) (by permission only; usually only bar section leaders, legal services persons responsible for advocacy, etc.)	Write to the ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly,  SEdelstein@STAFF.ABANET.ORG, for permission	ELDERBAR@ABANET.ORG
NAELA mailing list (unmoderated; you must be a NAELA member)	YOU MUST BE A NAELA MEMBER - subscribe with your password and userid on the NAELA website You can also check the archives if you are a member of NAELA even if you don't subscribe to the listserv. Click for instructions.	members@lists.naela.org
ABA-TAX  (ABA Tax Section; membership in section not required - yet. Searchable archive)	Subscribe as directed on www.abanet.org or, send the following message:  "SUBSCRIBE ABA-TAX <Your Full Name>" with no subject line to LISTSERV@MAIL.ABANET.ORG	ABA-TAX@ABANET.ORG
ABA-PTL  (ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; membership in section not required - yet.  Searchable archive)	Subscribe as directed on www.abanet.org or, send the following message:  "SUBSCRIBE ABA-PTL <Your Full Name>" with no subject line to LISTSERV@MAIL.ABANET.ORG	ABA-PTL@ABANET.ORG
ADA-LAW  (covers Americans with Disabilities Act and related issues)	listserv@vm1.nodak.edu	ada-law@vm1.nodak.edu
ALZHEIMER  (VOLUMINOUS email support group for patients, care givers, researchers, others)	Send the message: subscribe ALZHEIMER to mj2@lists.biostat.wustl.edu	alzheimer@lists.biostat.wustl.edu
BIOETHICSLAW-L  (Forum for bioethics law scholars)	listserv@acc.wuacc.edu	Bioethicslaw-L@acc.wuacc.edu
GERINET  (Deals with geriatric health care from an interdisciplinary perspective)	http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=gerinet&A=1	gerinet@listserv.buffalo.edu
HEALTHLAW-L	listserv@lawlib.wuacc.edu	healthlaw-l@lawlib.wuac.edu
HEALTHLINK Chatlist sponsored by Families USA	Send to majordomo@list1.channel1.com the following message (with a blank subject line):  "subscribe healthlink@list1.channel1.com"
LTCARE-L  (discusses research relating to policy on long-term care issues)	Send to listserv@list.nih.gov the following message (with blank subject line):  "subscribe ltcare-l"	ltcare-l@list.nih.gov

 

E-MAIL NEWS SUBSCRIPTIONS                                                                         Return to Page Index

E-mail news subscription lists are not "discussion lists"  but rather, simply subscriptions to news services.  The subscriber will periodically receive bulletins from the list manager, usually one a week or so, but subscribers do not post to the list.

Subscription List	How to subscribe
CTElderLaw Newsletter - maintained by Connecticut Legal Services, this is an "announcement only" list of legislative and other developments affecting the elderly in Connecticut.	Send your request to ElderLawNewsletter@ConnLegalServices.org You can also check the archives located on the CTElderLaw.org site.
Social Security Administration E-news (Notification of important changes and other updates from SSA)	Go to SSA's website and select various topics, give your e-mail address and you are subscribed
DRS E-News  (Notification list from the Department of Revenue Services)	Send sign-on request to the Department of Revenue Services
The Elder Law e-Bulletin (originated by Tim Takacs, now edited by Tim, Robert Fleming, and Prof. Rebecca Morgan) includes links to news items available on-line of interest to elder law practitioners)	Distributed to NAELA members as a member benefit. MAY still be available to non-memberss. Send an empty e-mail message to telb-subscribe@mlm.tn-elderlaw.com  or go to Tim's site. Copies of some prior newsletters are available on Tim's site as well as in the NAELA "members only" section.
Families USA "Action Alert" List.  (Notification of important legislative issues as determined by Famlies USA.)	Sign up on the Consumer Profile page.

 

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