Guidelines for www.justice.org Legal Links

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The www.justice.org legal links page is intended to assist AAJ Members and the public locate Internet resources of a non commercial nature that are likely to be of interest to lawyers. Specifically this includes government and educational sites with a legal or regulatory emphasis as well as legal associations. It includes legal lists and Internet tools aimed at helping users locate legal and more general information on the Internet. It also includes general Internet resources.

For these guidelines, "commercial" means sites with the purpose of promoting the sale of products or services or sites that charge fees for access to information. The presence of advertising on a site does not mean the site is commercial.

Regardless of the preceding, www.justice.org will not provide links on the legal links page to the following:

• Trial Magazine advertisers, potential advertisers and their competitors. (AAJ Mart and paid www.justice.org banner advertising are available for those purposes.)
• Lawyers, law firms or providers of lawyer services. Specifically www.justice.org will not provide links to AAJ member home pages or any other web pages that provide preferential treatment of specific AAJ members on either the Legal Links page or on www.justice.org discussion group home pages. Members are advised to provide their web address to the membership department for inclusion in their member record so that web addresses will automatically be included in AAJ's directories, including www.justice.org's on-line member directory.
• Sites with objectionable content. For examples of objectionable content, see the Amendments to the www.justice.org Advertising Guidelines passed by the Board of Governors on April 5, 1997.

Before proposed sites are included on the legal links page, they will be provided to the members of the www.justice.org links committee for review. If any objections are raised, the site will not be included without the approval of the committee or other appropriate review authority. .gov and .edu domain sites (except .edu\~) will be exempt from prior committee review. Any existing link on the legal links page may be reviewed at any time and removed as appropriate.