Year: 2005

Westlaw has added a new feature called Smart Tools which offers suggestions for misspelled or incomplete searches. According to Westlaw, “Smart Tools offer you alternatives for terms that appear out of context even though spelled …

Justia.com, a web design company specializing in law firms, is offering free simple web sites for lawyers and law firms. The basic template design features: Firm Home Page Firm Profile Page Firm Location Page Practice …

GovTrack.us is a new, useful, and free federal legislation tracking tool. Users can choose to track legislation by legislator name, bill number, and subject. Results are available for delivery via email or RSS. Full text …

A group of senators from North Dakota – both republican and democrat – have started ND Legislative Blog. Very interesting. In addition to covering official legislative affairs, these senators are expressing opinions and sharing details …

The Library of Congress has redesigned portions of the legislative information site, THOMAS. The main change is the capability of searching the text of legislation across multiple congresses (all or selectively) from 1989 (101st Congress) …

Last week the IRS announced that it was making tax preparation software available to the public at no cost. Free electronic filing will also be available. Read more at Findlaw.

PrismLegal has compiled a list (albeit a very short list) of large law firms (NLJ 250) with firm-branded blogs. They are: Telecom Law Blog by Davis Wright Tremaine Holland and Hart’s Rocky Mountain Health Care …

From ABA Site-tation: People Who Need People (or Information About People) – ERsys.com Chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best free reference sites of 2004, www.ersys.com compiles demographic information on over …

askSam is offering a free database containing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Individual sections of the legislation are divided into separate documents. The database and free viewer must be downloaded to …

From Blog 702: You get some interesting e-mail when you run a web site. The following correspondence should be of interest to anyone looking for a one-month vacation from time sheets, voice-mail messages, and senior …