Category «Legal Research»

Web Searching and Information Retrieval

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 …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research

Law.com Launches Redesigned Site

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 The previous main page brown, black and white color scheme has been replaced by one that is blue, white and grey, with links to News and Information sources (AmLaw’s national and regional legal publications, much of whose content requires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 …

Subjects: Legal Research

Resident Agent Info

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.

Subjects: Legal Research

National Archives Provides Database of 50 Million Historic Records

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 …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

GPO Access Relaunches Portal

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, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research

30th Anniversary of LexisNexis

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.

Subjects: Legal Research

New Portal to International Courts and Tribunals

Via the Big Ear, this link to the Project on International Courts and Tribunal: “The new Courts and Tribunals section will include information about all currently functioning international judicial bodies, including contact information, cases (pending and decided), and information about the judges, together with news and selected bibliographies (coming soon) about each body.”

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

West Acquires Andrews Publications

From the press release: “West, a Thomson business, today announced it has acquired Andrews Publications from Haights Cross Communications…Andrews is a 30-year-old publisher of litigation reporters, newsletters, special reports and online services…Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.”

Subjects: Legal Research