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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Good news dug up by the research mavens at The Virtual Chase: "The Library of Congress announced the release of a beta versionof Thomas, a Web site that provides access to federal legislation andrelated documents. More search features are available as well as morehelp for those unfamiliar with searching for federal legislation."
This news from Google sure sounds smart to me. But will patent paralegals be impressed? "Google was live 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...
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...
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...