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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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“Internet 1.0” • E-mail • Listservs • Usenet • FTP • Telnet • pre-WWW
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?
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(?)
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/
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/
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/
http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/10/articles/another-category/legal-news-feeds-on-twitter/http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/10/articles/another-category/legal-news-feeds-on-twitter/
http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/articles/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and-legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/articles/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and-legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/ http://legalbirds.justia.com/
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/
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
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
Researching “back end” Internet • Locating point of contact info of site owner for serving cease-and-desist http://blog.wellsfargo.com/StudentLoanDown/index.html
Whois • Domain name (DNS) lookup • http://www.internic.net/ • Numeric address (IP) lookup • http://ws.arin.net/whois • Command line “ping” for IP lookup
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
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
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/advanced.html
3.) Search the Site Archives http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/index.html http://www.infineon.convergy.de/Default.aspx
Some Other Useful Links • http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/best-practices-for-online-networking-for-lawyers-web-20/ • http://ustandout.com/index.php/social-media/top-twelve-twitter-tools/
Thank You! cdean@tjsl.edu Twitter.com/CharlesDean tjsllibrary.wordpress.com