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The 17 year old case of Air India Flight 182, which exploded off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985 killing all 329 passengers and crew onboard, is scheduled to begin today in the Supreme Court of British Columbia (BC). A new website, ONTRIAL/Air India, sponsored by the Law Courts Education Society of British …
Getting Wired Is Part of Research reviews technology options available to access online court dockets and filings from federal and state courts. Two services mentioned are the comprehensive CourtExpress.com (fee-based) and CourtWeb (which is limited to selected rulings from participating U.S. District Court judges).
The Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals launched a redesigned web site yesterday. Although much of the site’s content requires a membership password, see this publications link for access to abstracts and some full-text articles without a fee.
Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval. “This paper suggests that the significance of the topical metadata controversy depends on the technological appropriateness of adding them to Web pages. This paper surveys Web technology with an eye on assessing the appropriateness of Web pages as hosts for topical metadata. The survey reveals Web …
Columbia University has published a searchable database of over 10,000 documents, from which scanned images were made, that comprise The Papers of John Jay, 1745-1829, Governor of New York and Supreme Court Justice.
See this link from LexisNexis for training materials and topical tutorials, links to research materials and a bibliography of articles on summer associate training programs.
American Lawyer Media announced a redesigned version of their law.com site. The previous main page brown, black and white color scheme has been replaced by one that is blue, white and grey, with links to News and Information sources (AmLaw’s national and regional legal publications, much of whose content requires a subscription) now in the …
Attorney Terry Berger updated his website on resident agent information today. His site provides links to all 43 states that offer this information free online, as well as to those states that have fee-based access or are in the process of migrating to online access.
The Information Law Weblog was launched March 28, is by librarian/researcher/author Paul Pedley, and focuses on copyright, data protection and freedom of information issues in the UK. Well worth a visit. (Thanks to DC for the link.)
CNN reported the availability to the public of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Access to Archival Databases System (AAD) in this April 5 article. The database was actually released on February 12, and represents a substantial e-gov program to provide a single user interface for researchers to facilitate searching, retrieving and dowloading approximately …
From a press release by GPO today:” GPO Access has been re-launched with a new URL and enhanced look and feel. As of today, April 4, 2003, you will be able to access the new GPO Access homepage at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov. This re-launch was accomplished as a result of feedback from users, through surveys, usability studies, …
See this press release, LexisNexis Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of its Invention of Online Legal Research, noting how original company owner Mead Data Central “revolutionized the field of legal research by launching the world’s first full-text commercial search engine,” 30 years ago today.
