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"Keeping Current Can Be Hard to Do for Law Librarians"

May 30, 2007

I bet! In fact, I've often thought that being a law librarian would be a most interesting job. Just think about everything you would learn! "Librarians are curious people. We like to skim magazines and books, we like to surf the Web and we have some interest in a lot of topics. A former co-worker used to say that librarians are 'trivial' in that we are always picking up trivia -- a definite asset when one needs to keep current in their profession. "I was familiar with blogs, wikis and social software before I wrote 'The Many Hats of a... Read more →

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Posted at 07:31 PM in Factual research, Law firm management, Law firm staffing, Law library, Legal research, Legal technology, Paralegal utilization, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

Website: Famous Trials

Apr 22, 2007

This admittedly bare-bones website was created & is maintained by professor Douglas O. Linder at the University of Missouri-Kansas Law School. Linder says: "My vision was to create the Web’s largest collection of primary documents, images, essays, and other materials relating to famous trials from Salem to Simpson. Trials have long struck me as wonderful vehicles for exploring history and human nature. What better way to understand the 20s than reading about the Scopes, Sacco-Vanzetti, and Leopold and Loeb trials? What provides better insights into the nature of evil than reading the transcripts of the William Calley court-martial or the... Read more →

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Posted at 08:30 PM in Constitutional law, Courtroom, Factual research, Trial lawyer, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"Cognition Launches New Linguistic Search Engine"

Apr 03, 2007

This new search engine could be very helpful for litigation support paralegals: "Every searcher's fear is that a search will produce too little of what you want or too much of what you don't want. And, even if you get a nice collection of the right stuff, is it all the right stuff out there or does it omit things you need to see? In technical terms, does your search strategy balance precision and recall effectively? Linguistic and semantic search engines have long held out the promise of helping computers "understand" concepts, rather than just search for terms. Cognition Technologies... Read more →

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Posted at 01:46 PM in Factual research, Legal research, Litigation support, New products, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"Superior Legal Web Sites to Watch"

Jan 23, 2007

This article from our friends at Law Technology News offers a bunch of helpful law links: "We delve into our browser's bookmarks this month, to review the recently launched Web sites of interest to individuals in the legal profession. BLAWG SEARCH "Several sites help you search the content of blogs, but offer no way to limit your search to law-related blogs. "A new tool solves this search shortfall by indexing only the content of legal blogs. "Called BlawgSearch, it is the creation of Tim Stanley and his team at the Web site design company Justia. (If Stanley's name sounds familiar,... Read more →

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Posted at 03:34 PM in Factual research, Legal research, Web/Tech, Weblogs | | Comments (0)

Digitization of Print Materials

Jan 16, 2007

We all prefer digital over paper-based information, right? Right! "Companies from Google to The Thomson Corporation, from Microsoft to LexisNexis, are all undertaking large digitization projects focusing on better access to paper-based resources. Undeniably, many law firms have a need for some of the digitized products on the market today, and there will soon be many more sources available. "In acquiring access to new digital collections, law firms and other information consumers need to think about issues of cost, technology requirements and ease of use. Beyond that, merely acquiring a new collection will not ensure that all people who need... Read more →

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Posted at 02:48 PM in Factual research, Legal research, New products, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"Google launches search engine for US patents"

Dec 14, 2006

This news from Google sure sounds smart to me. But will patent paralegals be impressed? "Google was live [12/14/2006] with a service enabling Internet users to search through the more than seven million patents granted in the United States. "The beta, or test, version of Google Patent Search lets people sift through patents granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office as long ago as 1790 by using inventors' names, filing dates, patent numbers or key words. "Searches return information about the inventor and provide patent details online page-by-page." I've never worked in this field, but was completely fascinated by... Read more →

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Posted at 12:37 PM in Factual research, Intellectual property, Legal research, New products, Patent infringement, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

NY Trial Court Online Case Access

Oct 26, 2006

Legal Dockets Online describes new enhancements to New York State's case information databases: "Supreme Court and County Clerk dockets, decisions, monitoring, and calendar access is finally consolidating and improving. If you practice in New York, be prepared to be impressed. Here is a summary of the state's major case information databases now available to the public: "This system provides past, present and future case information for New York State Civil Supreme Courts. WebCivil provides online access to information about cases in Civil Supreme Court in all 62 counties of New York State. You may search for cases by Index Number... Read more →

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Posted at 10:54 AM in Courtroom, Factual research, Litigation, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"The Making of a Public Records Researcher"

Oct 11, 2006

This most helpful article was written by Genie Tyburski of The Virtual Chase: "What constitutes public record, public information and private information sometimes is as clear as mud. (For a discussion of the differences, see The Art of Public Records Research.) [link in article] In a recent e-mail exchange concerning a proposal for a distant education course for journalism students on public records research, one professor expressed concern that students wouldn't have access to commercial databases containing personal information. She also commented that drivers' records 'are available to private investigators, but not to reporters.' How, then, should the faculty handle... Read more →

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Posted at 02:58 PM in Factual research, Federal law, Privacy law | | Comments (0)

"Half of government documents 'born digital'"

Oct 11, 2006

Wow, this is amazing info (pointed to by The Virtual Chase): "Public Printer Bruce James recently returned to the Rochester Institute of Technology, his alma mater and the school that launched his 40-year publishing career, to talk about printing. "After nearly four years of leading the U.S. Government Printing Office into the Digital Age as its chief executive officer, James recently announced he will go back to his home in Nevada by year’s end. [snip] "'We estimate that as many as 50 percent of all federal government documents are now born digital, published to the Web, and will never be... Read more →

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Posted at 02:20 PM in Document management, Factual research, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

"Pushing Legal Research Beyond Google"

Oct 07, 2006

Good article about Internet research, specifically for paralegals: "When it comes to sleuthing for information there are no hard and fast rules for paralegals, except maybe this one: Don't ignore the Internet. "The courts may notice if you do. "Last year, an Indiana appeals court agreed to dismiss a lawsuit because the plaintiff took three years to find a postal address and serve notice of his complaint. In a footnote [fn 3, p 13] to that published opinion [PDF link in article], Judge Michael Barnes noticed there was no evidence the plaintiff had tried looking on the Internet to find... Read more →

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Posted at 11:08 AM in Factual research, Free speech, Legal research, Paralegal utilization, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

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