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Internet Research Strategies: Web 2.0 Tools for Attorneys Charles Dean, TJSL Library MCLE Class Fish & Richardson P.C. February 12, 2009
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GIVEGET money, time, expertise & more!books, articles, databases & more! Library Alumni Portal Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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“Internet 1.0” E-mail Listservs Usenet FTP Telnet pre-WWW
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Web 2.0 Social/Professional networking sites Blogs and wikis Podcasts (audio and video) SMS text-messaging, IM, chat APIs, mashups, and mobile devices Law 2.0?
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Law 2.0 Tools for… A.) Current legal awareness B.) Finding expert witnesses C.) Researching “back end” Internet Potential for rain-making and client and employee due diligence(?)
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A.) Current Awareness: Twitter Micro-blog, IM service, e-mail “lite” Concise, rapid updates (140 chars.) Alerts w/ links (tiny URLs) Use it to update Facebook status from mobile device “Follow” law-related Twitterers http://twitter.com/
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JD Supra Twitter feed “Law Practice News” http://twitter.com/Law_Practice Digital repository Articles, pre-prints, scholarly publishing Work product collection (KM) http://www.jdsupra.com/
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LexMonitor http://twitter.com/LexMonitor Daily review of 2,000 legal blogs and journals RSS feeds by practice area, legal education, and editors’ picks http://www.lexmonitor.com/
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http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/10/ articles/another-category/legal- news-feeds-on-twitter/
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http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/article s/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and- legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/ http://legalbirds.justia.com/
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ThomChat TJSL Library blog Law news, current awareness, legal IT Topics now include FOI, privacy, First Amendment Topics will include Library resources and services of special interest to alumni http://tjsllibrary.wordpress.com/
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B.) Finding Expert Witnesses Search blogosphere on “accident reconstruction” http://www.serph.com/ Search LinkedIn on “expert witness” using occupation = medical practice vs. kw = vascular surgery http://www.linkedin.com/search
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http://www.expertwitnessblog.com/
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C.) Researching “back end” Internet Example locating contact information of site owner for serving cease-and-desist using domain name server (DNS) lookup Example finding old product specifications in patent infringement or product liability suit using site archives
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Researching “back end” Internet Locating point of contact info of site owner for serving cease-and-desist http://blog.wellsfargo.com/StudentLoanDow n/index.html
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Whois Domain name (DNS) lookup http://www.internic.net/ Numeric address (IP) lookup http://ws.arin.net/whois Command line “ping” for IP lookup
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Researching “back end” Internet Finding old product specifications for patent infringement or product liability suit Strategies for searching past versions of site and/or content of old documents
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1.) Search Engine Caches Caching policy varies between search services Cached version might be the previous version of a page before the last update, or pages no older than a few weeks or months
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2.) Search Archive of Sites Terms of Use about downloading site content may limit attempts to retrieve old documents (see FAQs) http://www.internetarchive.org/ http://web.archive.org/collections/web/adv anced.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/collections/web/adv anced.html
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3.) Search the Site Archives http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/ind ex.html http://www.infineon.convergy.de/Default.asp x
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Some Other Useful Links http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/0 3/best-practices-for-online-networking-for- lawyers-web-20/http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/0 3/best-practices-for-online-networking-for- lawyers-web-20/ http://ustandout.com/index.php/social- media/top-twelve-twitter-tools/http://ustandout.com/index.php/social- media/top-twelve-twitter-tools/
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Thank You! cdean@tjsl.edu Twitter.com/CharlesDean tjsllibrary.wordpress.com
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