INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
May 19, 2002
Tom
Mighell
Welcome to Issue #70 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is send an e-mail to ilrw-subscribe@topica.com. It’s free!
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And away we go…..
Help Desk
Do you ever get e-mails warning about a virus? Watch out – sometimes those virus warnings are hoaxes. One popular hoax currently making its way around the Internet claims that if you have the file “Jdbgmgr.exe” on your computer, you’re infected with a virus. In fact, all of you should have this file on your computer – it’s a part of your operating system. The e-mail encourages you to delete the file, which then causes damage to your computer. Ingenious, eh? A virus that works by getting YOU to delete the files!
To learn more about virus hoaxes, check out a story on Tech TV or Sophos Antivirus.
Do you have a question about searching the Internet or your computer in general? Drop me a line at tmighell@swbell.net– I’ll post your question (don’t worry, I won’t use your real name) and try to get an answer for you!
Legally Relevant – Sites on the InternetThe International Trade Data System (IDTS) is part of a larger initiative to implement an integrated government-wide system for the electronic collection, use, and dissemination of international trade data. This page exists just to get you to profiles of 53 countries. For each country, you’ll get links to the CIA World Factbook, Departments of State and Commerce information, as well as trade organization resources for that country. There are also links to the harmonized tariff schedule and international trade terms, for those of you who don’t know anything about the subject.
This site claims to be the “hottest site on the Web for toxicology and environmental chemistry information about pesticides.” If you know the name of the pesticide you’re searching for, you can type it in the search engine, or browse the list of Pesticide Information Profiles. The page on each pesticide provides comprehensive information on the product including regulatory status, formulation, toxicological effects, ecological effects, environmental fate, physical properties, and more. The extensive FAQ section provides lots of helpful information on how pesticides can affect you. There’s also a link to the UC-Davis Environmental Toxicology Newsletter.
Designed by “a busy lawyer for busy lawyers,” this site looks like it was designed by someone who was too busy to do a good job. Don’t get me wrong – this is a terrific site. It’s just very crowded and very busy, and the background is like a piece of paper from a legal pad – somewhat amateurish. But this site is a keeper, with hundreds of links to everything a lawyer needs to get through his or her day. Legal News, regular news, legal search engines, business news, legal periodicals, legal reference, federal law, state law, company research, continuing legal education, people and phone numbers – and I’m just getting started! You really need a site like this in your Favorites folder.
National Guideline Clearinghouse
Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. There’s a search box here, but I had no idea what to search for, so I browsed the disease and condition collection. There were 88 sets of guidelines listed for Respiratory Tract diseases; I selected Bronchial Diseases, which contained 10 sets of guidelines. The category was broken further into Asthma (8 guidelines) and Bronchitis (2 guidelines). I checked out Asthma, and found links to (you guessed it) 8 sets of guidelines relating to the condition. You can view a summary of the guidelines or download the full set. You can also create your own guideline collection, which allows you to compare sets of guidelines – this is a terrific feature, because it takes each set of guidelines and puts them in table format so you can compare the various features.
Pretrial Services Resource Center
This site caters primarily to criminal defense practitioners. The goal of the Resource Center is to provide information, publications, training, and assistance on pretrial services at the federal and state levels. View recent reports, publications, and projects of the Center, and visit the Pretrial Justice Institute, which provides “training and education for the front-end practitioner.” A helpful site for criminal defense lawyers who have a substantial pretrial docket.
Finally, a useful site for those of you who suffer from headaches. Stop wondering what to do about them – head over to the National Headache Foundation’s Educational Resources.
Well, that’s it for Issue #70– I hope you liked it! If you did, pass this along to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to subscribe. Also, feel free to drop me an e-mail any time if you have questions, or if you have websites or other topics you want included in a future issue.
Tom Mighell
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