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About six weeks ago, I started combing the Web, looking for good sites that had useful forms.  There were not many on the accounting side; however, as you might expect, quite a few legal sites offer them, so this article focuses more on those. 

For smaller firms, there are services that will help you save a lot of time, particularly if your assistant is unavailable.  These are like the software ``help" wizards--they walk you through step by step and ask questions.  Then they use the information you supply to  fill in the blanks on a form and send a complete first draft of a pleading paper or contract document back to you.  Prices for most of these services are modest, and usually based on the length/complexity of the document.  Prices start at around $3.00 and go up to about $15-20 for the most detailed.  Other services offer a flat rate subscription fee for which you will have unlimited access to their forms datatbase. 

Few sites offer the breadth of the forms published by most State Bar Associations, but many of them focus on consumer-type documents , such as wills, small claims court papers, and child care powers of attorney.  For the most part, I have ignored those sites here and focused on locations that will be helpful to legal practitioners, rather than the general public, because of their great resources.  I hope you discover here some that you may not already know.

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Legaldocs
Fee per document service from USA Law Publications with a wide range of forms available for estates and small businesses.

The Forms Room of the ‘Lectric Law Library
Voted the best forms site on the web (they say).  Divided into two overlapping categories, Business and Law Practice.

Lawchek
Offers legal forms by state for all 50 states in more than 10 different disciplines.  Free samples available on the site.

Forms to Download
from the Kinsey Law Offices.  Packages of forms for eight practice areas currently, and they appear to be adding more. They also feature lawyer jokes.

Free Legal Forms
from Abraxis.com, primarily contract law.  Long list to choose from.

Forms Prescribed Under the Securities Act of 1933
Forms from the Center for Electronic Text in the Law at the University of Cincinnati.

Internal Revenue File Manager (Tax Forms)
Download 569 different forms in Adobe Acrobat PDF, postscript, SGML, or other formats, courtesy of the IRS. 

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