TASI, the Technical Advisory Service for Images, has a nice review of image search engines. If you need to perform a search for images, this report will give you some good guidance on the best tools to use.
A new home for the Paper Chase
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Legal Research Sites, Useful Web Sites
Jurist’s Paper Chase, Professor Bernard Hibbitts’ “info-overloaded syllabus of new law, learning, and links,” has a terrific new page as well as an RSS feed. Check ’em out!
Watch out — your metadata’s showing
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in E-Discovery
Dennis discusses an issue today to which I really need to pay more attention —metadata in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Metadata is information contained in the file regarding your prior edits or comments, and while it’s invisible to the untrained eye, it’s not too hard to unearth.
Beware the new PayPal scam
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
If you use PayPal and you get an e-mail from the company asking you to re-submit credit card and/or bank account information, read this first. There’s a new scam e-mail making its way around the Internet, and it’s apparently pretty convincing.
Public Records on LoisLaw
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Posted in Legal Research Sites
Westlaw and Lexis aren’t the only games in town — companies like LoisLaw and VersusLaw offer some of the same services at greatly reduced prices. I have always argued that these companies will never truly replace West or Lexis, because they simply don’t offer the full range of research services needed by a lawyer. Last…
This week’s issue of…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Mighell Marker
…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is now available online.
A new old blawg
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Blogs and Blogging
The Network of Trial Law Firms has a weblog that apparently has been around since December 2000, making it one of the early law-related blogs. (Via net.law.blog)
International Trade Law blawg
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Bill Gratch over at Blawg.org points us to the brand-spanking-new International Trade Law and Policy, which will cover the World Trade Organization and other international trade legal and policy issues.
Welcome, new blawgers
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging
Lawyer Randy Tunac introduces us to Manifest Border, the web’s first immigration blog. (Via Denise)
And Decnavda’s Dialectic presents news and information on tax court opinions. (Via Bob)
If anyone sees my SSN out there, let me know
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Security
Hackers from Houston and Austin broke into the computers at the University of Texas at Austin and stolen names, Social Security numbers, and e-mail addresses of 55,000 current and former UT students. Investigators say the hackers could strike again soon.