INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
November 12, 2006
Tom Mighell

Welcome to Issue #249 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 visit Inter Alia and fill out the subscription form -- it's free!

News Update -- from the Inter Alia Weblog

The Strongest Links on RSS
Dennis Kennedy and I have a new Strongest Links article out, and this one is called RSS Resources You Can Use: Automated Web Surfing for Lawyers. I think we've put together a good selection of links for everybody, no matter your level of experience with using RSS. We have some basic links that help you understand what RSS is and how it can deliver information to you, as well as more advanced sites for those of you who are already using RSS as a part of your research and information-gathering.

Blawgs of the Week
Here's a sample of the law-related weblogs I featured last week on Inter Alia:

  • The Trial Lawyer Resource Center calls itself a blog, but it doesn't really look like one. Instead of presenting individual posts in order of the date they were written, they're laid out by category. The authors are thirteen (or more) trial lawyers who publish regularly on such subjects as case selection, work up, trial strategy, evidence, and post settlement issues.
  • The Estrin Report is "created for professional paralegals -- not of a certain level, specialty or firm -- but of a particular attitude." It's published by Chere Estrin, CEO of the CLE organization Estrin LegalEd.
  • Here's a real-estate blog from the UK -- The Landlord Law Blog is published by Tessa Shepperson, a solicitor in Norwich. She ponders on life, the universe, and residential landlord and tenant law.
  • The Law Offices of Denise Diaz is monitoring antitrust developments affecting California businesses at The Antitrust Monitor.

Help Desk

Do you have a Gmail account? Here are two tips to help you better manage your Gmail:

  • You can set up filters to act on incoming e-mail. For example, you can create a filter that stars messages from britney@spears.com and forwards them to any account you choose. Just click Settings, then Filters, then Create a New Filter, then follow the instructions.
  • You can also set up alias e-mail addresses, by adding a plus sign (+) and any extra characters to your address (no spaces, though). If you sign up for a law-related mailing list, for example, you can submit an address like tmighell+atla@gmail.com, or tmighell+solosez@gmail.com. Now you can set up filters that star, label, archive, or forward only those incoming messages.

Do you have a question about searching the Internet or your computer in general? Drop me an e-mail at tom(at)inter-alia(dot)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 Internet

Pain.com
This site is sponsored by the Dannenmiller Memorial Educational Foundation, with the goal of being the premier educational and informational resource on the Internet for health care professionals and consumers who have an interest in pain and its management. Many resources require registration, but it's free to everyone. Probably the best resources here are the articles on pain; just look at the home page and you'll find links to articles everywhere, including a full-text Pain Library. You also have access to a directory of over 3,000 pain management professionals across the country.

FedStats
FedStats provides information on government agencies reporting expenditures of more than $500K. The site is divided up into Links to Statistics, and Links to Statistical Agencies. You'll find MapStats, Statistics by Geography from U.S. Agencies, a Statistical Reference Shelf, as well as Kid's Pages on agency websites. Don't miss the Data Access Tools link, which provides a page of resources on selected agency online databases.

Swedish Law on the Internet
GlobaLex is a part of the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law. It has some terrific Internet research guides, which I'll be featuring from time to time in the newsletter. This week we'll look at the page on Swedish law, from Ingrid Kabir, a law librarian in Stockholm. You'll get a brief background on the Swedish legal system, and links to constitutional and other sources of law, the court system, public domain portals, law libraries, legal publishers, law journals, and more. If you need to conduct legal research in Sweden, this is a great starting point.

Acronyma
Find an acronym you can't identify? Try Acronyma -- just enter the acronym and you'll be treated to a list of possible matches. You may be surprised at the number of matches you get. The site is also accepting submissions for new acronyms.

Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy
From the University of Virginia comes this site that aims to work with mental health disciplines to help courts make informed decisions, develop and shape laws and policies related to mental health issues, and promote the rights of individuals with mental illnesses, among other things. For research information, check out the Research Initiatives, which includes links to assessments on violent criminals, campus violence, women coping in prison, as well as a mental health law bibliography. You can also search the Forensic Expert directory, or read about developments in mental health law in the Publications and Reports area.

Finally, some fun and useful sites to start off your week:

From one of my readers comes the Viral Video Chart -- a list of the current most popular videos circulating the Internet. I dare you to watch just one....

Too busy for books? Read them by e-mail with Daily Lit -- just sign up, and you'll receive a new part of a book from classic literature as often as you choose.

Well, that’s it for Issue #249 – 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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