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Paralegal Knowledge Institute Makes Its Debut

Sep 14, 2011

Attention experienced paralegals! There's a new outfit in town, the Paralegal Knowledge Institute (www.paralegalknowledge.com) that launches this week. Designed specifically for the paralegal assignment, the Institute is offering gold-standard courses, webinars and publications. The purpose of the Institute is to bring to the paralegal community a new concept: an organization dedicated strictly to the career advancement of the experienced paralegal. The difference between the Institute and other training companies is that the Institute is strictly dedicated to paralegal continuing legal education while in other organizations, paralegal training is a division of a larger company, generally dedicated to attorney training. "We... Read more →

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Research, 'Riting & Resources (Ok, it's a stretch - I agree)

Jul 07, 2011

Celia Elwell, RP, is a very experienced paralegal in Oklahoma. An avid researcher and writer, Celia sends me these wonderful listings filled with interesting articles, posts and valuable tidbits. The light finally went on inside my head (where else?). I thought, "Why am I not sharing these our readers?" Enjoy! SCOTUS Justices on the Language of Law: Advocacy and Legal Writing (and by Implication Legal Research, Too), Law Librarian Blog http://bit.ly/n0jdbu Standard of Review in Five Easy Steps, by Raymond Ward, the (new) legal writer http://bit.ly/mzfiQT The Winning Wal-Mart Brief: Six Returns, by Ross Guberman, Legal Writing Pro http://bit.ly/rgp7oH New... Read more →

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Posted at 08:50 PM in Business writing, Careers, EDD, Electronic discovery, Legal research | | Comments (0)

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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)

"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)

Library of Congress Enhances Thomas Database

Jan 09, 2007

Good news dug up by the research mavens at The Virtual Chase: "The Library of Congress announced the release of a beta version of Thomas, a Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. More search features are available as well as more help for those unfamiliar with searching for federal legislation." Read more →

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Posted at 03:22 PM in Federal law, Legal research, Legislation | | 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)

"Long Awaited New Edition of The Legal Research Dictionary Now Available"

Nov 14, 2006

Just announced on the Law Librarian Blog: "With ths work one can find the definitions of hundreds of terms used in legal research and bibliography. The dictionary coverage includes the judicial, legislative and executive branches of federal, state, and local government. This handy reference work is useful for law librarians, paralegals, public librarians, law review staff, and law students during first year legal research and writing, and advanced legal research courses." You can find more info & buy this book (for $26.00) here. Read more →

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Posted at 10:13 AM in Books, Legal research, Legal terminology | | 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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