Lexis and Westlaw are wonderfully powerful services, but let’s face it, they’re darned expensive to use. That’s why I love to hear when there’s a new way to use these services in a way that won’t send your clients to your front door complaining about the size of their bills.
From Carole over at Internet…
…the Internet Legal Research Weekly is available and ready for your review. Highlights:
If you missed the major search engine news last month, check out Chris Sherman’s Search Engine Milestones for June 2004.
You may notice that I occasionally use TinyURL to shorten longer URLs that I include in the newsletter. If you ever wonder what kinds of sites are being saved over there, play TinyURL.com Roulette, which will serve up a random site every time you click the button.
The Embassy Law Blog presents current developments in embassy, consular, and immunity law. Very timely.
I was also excited to find that Inter Alia has been named the MVP Site for July over at Internet Tools for Lawyers. Jerry Lawson always chooses interesting and helpful sites each month, and I’m flattered to be included. Thanks, Jerry!
A newcomer to the electronic discovery scene, EDDix, has posted a list of the top 50 law-related weblogs on the Internet. I was pleased to find that Inter Alia was included on the list. Although I was not one hundred percent in agreement with the choices (including the initial omission of Marty Schwimmer’s …
I have been very late in reporting this new site, so I suggest you take a look at it ASAP, to catch up with everybody else. Michael Lowe, a Dallas lawyer and friend of mine, has created RecordHelp.com, a site that provides information to individuals on expunging certain criminal records, without a lawyer’s help.
Bloglines, in my opinion the best online news aggregator, has been working on a new look, with lots of great new features. I could talk about them here, but ResourceShelf already has.
Not just one blawg, but a whole mess of blawgs: Law Professor Blogs is a network of weblogs designed to help law professors in their scholarship and teaching.
