Executive Recruiters
• AESC/BlueSteps.com - BlueSteps.com is the largest online global community of senior executives and the only career management service providing executives continual exposure to the world's top search firms. As an exclusive service of the Association of Executive Search Consultants, BlueSteps.com enables executives to efficiently and confidentially remain accessible to all member firms of the AESC, the worldwide professional association for the retained executive search industry.
• Directory of Executive Recruiters 2005-2006 - [Book -- Amazon]. "Published since 1971, the famous "Red Book" lists 13,250 recruiters at 5,600 search firms with all the contact information you need to start networking immediately with executive recruiters: address, phone, fax, e-mail and web addresses."
• Top 40 Executive Recruiters - From Executive Recruiter News, this dated site lists the top 40 executive recruiters, with their main office city, revenues and revenue growth.

Franchising
• Top 500 Franchisers (2006 Ranking) - Provided by Entrepreneur magazine. The ranking gives startup cost information and a link to a fairly detailed report for each ooportunity.

Law Firms
• American Lawyer - Has numerous articles and rankings. (Free registration required.)
• FindLaw - A legal directory: very comprehensive in its scope.
• Livedgar - This website for Global Securities Information provides (registration required) access to information on firms specializing in investment securities law.
• Martindale Hubbell - This is a fantastic on-line research tool if you would like to know more about a law firm or even a particular lawyer. For a law firm, it gives the areas of specialization, the year founded, and a profile of the firm, plus a profile of all the lawyers at the firm, and their specialty areas, etc.

Industry Overview
• Hoover's - A snapshot of business service providers.

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