60 Sites in 60 Minutes Links
60 Sites in 60 Minutes
Before heading out to the St. Patrick's Day parade, wrap up your ABA TECHSHOW experience by attending this perennial favorite, which is always one of the best attended sessions. Our panelists will review the hottest new websites for lawyers and legal professionals - great web resources on legal technology, practice management, research, ethics, and they'll toss in some practical and fun stuff, too.
60 Sites in 60 Minutes Hall-of-Fame
2007
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www.lawmemo.com/SCT/ Covering all U.S. Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to know about a case. The front page lists all cases on the court's docket. Each case is linked to its own omnibus page. The page includes a plain-English summary of the case, the questions presented and links to blog commentary, the lower-court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party and outside resources.
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thomas.loc.gov/ This is an oldie but goodie and it just keeps getting better. I've always used this site to watch Congress and the progress of legislation, but the site now carries links to the Constitution, access to Committee reports, treaties, the U.S. Code, government legal resources, and even webcasts from the Library of Congress.
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www.morepartnerincome.com - A fantastic website/blog updated every day with a variety of information related to increasing law firm partner income and business intelligence tools.
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blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/ An entire blog devoted to using Adobe Acrobat in a legal environment. Rick Borestein's blog is becoming THE go to place for questions law firms have about their digital documents
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www.72hours.org/index.html San Francisco has done a bang up job of compiling a simple guide to common disasters and the questions they give rise to. Is your family prepared for floods, terrorist attacks, or long term power outages? An excellent starting point
2004
- Oyez Project
www.oyez.org
This multimedia database of U.S. Supreme Court materials allows you to listen to complete recordings of actual oral arguments and take a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building. - Copyright and Fair Use
http://fairuse.stanford.edu
This site features an incomparable collection of copyright law materials and links with a focus on primary source materials, sponsored by Stanford University Libraries. - Google
www.google.com
King of the search-engine hill, Google is so thorough that its name has become synonymous with performing background research. - TinyURL
www.tinyurl.com
This site converts long URLs into tiny ones that won't break in e-mails or fill up a document. - FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
Launched in 1994, acquired by West in 2001, FindLaw remains the best starting point for finding legal information on the Web. - LexisOne
www.lexisone.com
From Lexis-Nexis, this resource, which was designed for solo and small-firm lawyers, provides access to free case law, free legal forms and more.
2003
- ABA Law Practice Management Section
www.lawpractice.org
Way new and very improved. So we are noting it again. - beSpacific
www.bespacific.com
Sabrina I. Pacifici, founder of LLRX.com, provides daily news reports covering law, legal information management and technology. - CERT Home Computer Security
www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity
Guide to keeping your home computer secure. - Law Practice Today
www.lawpracticetoday.org
The ABA Law Practice Management Section central source for the latest on managing your firm; including cutting information and articles on technology, finance, management and marketing. - Snopes.com
www.snopes.com
Urban legends reference pages. - Virtual Naval Hospital
www.vnh.org
Good medical links.
2002
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org
Defending digital privacy freedom in a digital world. - Federal Judicial Center
www.fjc.gov
The education and research agency for the federal courts. - FirstGov
www.firstgov.com
Official gateway to U.S. government information on the Internet, connecting to more than 51 million pages on more than 20,000 federal, state, territorial and tribal sites. - Gibson Research Corporation
www.grc.com
Learn about your computer's vulnerability to hackers. - GPO Access
www.gpoaccess.gov
The premier source for finding federal government materials online. - The Internet Wayback Machine
http://web.archive.org
Set the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody, to the early days of the Web. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you search more than 30 billion Web pages archived since 1996. - The Invisible Web Revealed
http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html
A guide to the "invisible Web"&8211;information stored on databases that shut out traditional search engines. - Lavasoft’s Ad-aware
www.lavasoftusa.com
Find malicious spyware and adware on your system - VersusLaw
www.versuslaw.com
The first comprehensive caselaw research service on the Web when it launched in 1995, it remains a good deal today.
2001
- ABA Law Practice Management Section
www.lawpractice.org
The ABA Section that produces ABA TECHSHOW® and is your source for all the best resources to help improve the way you run your practice. - ABA Law Practice Management Publications
www.lawpractice.org/catalog
The online catalog of the best books and other publications on law practice marketing, management, technology, and finance. - ABA TECHSHOW
www.techshow.com
What it's all about, baby. The premier legal technology conference. - CNET Shopper
http://shopper.cnet.com
For all the gadgets you wish you had. - FindLaw
www.findlaw.com
From a humble index of Internet resources has grown one of the best starting points for finding legal information on the Web. - InfoSpace Reverse Phone Lookup
http://www.infospace.com/info/revphone.htm
When you've got the number, but not the name. - LLRX
www.llrx.com
Since 1996, this Webzine for legal professionals has published leading-edge articles on legal research, technology, and management. - Legal Information Institute
www.law.cornell.edu
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute pioneered legal publishing on the Internet and has continued to innovate ever since. - LegalEthics.com
www.legalethics.com
Since 1995, this site has been devoted to helping lawyers explore the unique ethical issues raised by the Internet. - Medscape
www.medscape.com
This free site features MEDLINE along with content from more than 50 medical journals and textbooks and daily medical news. - The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp
Free on-line version of the oldest continuously published general medical textbook in the English language. - Nolo Self-Help
www.nolo.com
The home of do-it-yourself law, but good stuff for lawyers too. - Refdesk.com
www.refdesk.com
You've got questions? Refdesk has answers. - Search Systems Public Record Databases
www.searchsystems.net
Links to more than 17,000 free public-record databases. - Villanova Legal Express
http://vls.law.vill.edu/library/express
The express lane to Internet legal research. - WashLaw WEB
www.washlaw.edu
From Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, one of the earliest legal indexes on the Internet and still among the most exhaustive. - The Virtual Chase
www.virtualchase.com
From Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, this is a practical guide to legal research on the Internet. - Vmyths.com
www.vmyths.com
Debunker of virus myths, Internet hoaxes and urban legends.
