Hurricane Katrina Disaster Resources

• Managing Practice Interruptions, a pdf booklet to help lawyers deal with disaster management, courtesy of the Lawyers' Professional Indemnity Company.
• Disaster Recovery for Law Firms, excerpted from LPM's book, the Essential Formbook: Comprehensive Management Tools for Lawyers Volume IV, by Gary A. Munneke and Anthony E. Davis
• ARE YOU READY?: What Lawyers Need to Know about Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Recovery
• A Checklist for Opening or Moving Your Law Firm (PDF) for those lawyers who need to relocate. (excerpted from Attorney & Law Firm Guide to the Business of Law, Second Edition, by Edward Poll)

The ABA LTRC clearinghouse for technology related resources for disaster recovery contains links to articles, websites, communication tools, discounts and companies to help lawyers who are victims of the hurricane.

• Emergency Preparedness and Response: Legal Issues In A Changing World

Office Space Directory - Find temporary space for your firm or practice.

• Hurricane/Disaster Relief Information Compiled by the Alabama State Bar
• Florida Bar Association: What lawyers should do after a hurricane

Complete listing of State and Local Bar Association Efforts and Information

The ABA Justice Center has compiled a repository of information regarding the status of courthouses and judges in the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

• ABA Justice Center Gulf Coast Region Court Information
• Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Louisiana Courts (links to all)
• Mississippi Courts
• US District Court and US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Alabama
• National Center for State Courts - Katrina Update Information