Acrobat Reader 7.0 Now Available
The new Acrobat Reader 7.0 is now available as a free download. For more information, see the summary of new features. Source: PDF for Lawyers
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The new Acrobat Reader 7.0 is now available as a free download. For more information, see the summary of new features. Source: PDF for Lawyers
LexisNexis has launched a free online resource called LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News, which provides updated news stories on the Bush administration, notable political figures, Iraq, and more from over 4,000 U.S. and International news sources. Special coverage on the Tsunami Disaster is currently featured on the site. This site is the successor of …
Beginning January 1st, PACER fees increased from 7 cents per page to 8 cents per page for public access to court electronic records. The fee increase applies to all systems (CM/ECF, PACER, RACER, etc.). The 30 page cap on case-related documents and reports (excluding transcripts) will remain in effect. However, the maximum cost will be …
Jim Calloway, Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program, has launched a new Law Practice Tips Blog. The blog will focus on law practice management, the Internet and technology as it applies both in law practice and in daily life. Source: Stark County Law Library Blawg
Today’s New York Times article, Customer Service: The Hunt for a Human, relates the frustration that many consumers feel when trying to contact an actual corporate consumer contact person. According to the article, many people try to outwit automated phone systems by pressing zero, yet still fail to reach an operator. But some savvy consumers …
LexisNexis Mealey Publications and Conferences group now has an RSS feed for its top legal news headlines. There is no charge to subscribe. Source: inter alia
Mary Ellen Bates has compiled a great list of suggestions for quickly finding the answers to strange research questions. In Searching for Quick Answers To Odd Questions, she instructs users to consult the topic-specific databases (a.k.a. the invisible Web) rather than using general search engines. This is the same advice that I offer in my …
TIME Magazine has made available its entire archive of articles since 1923 available via the Web. Although searching is free, the full-text of articles is only available with a subscription to the print edition of TIME. But before you subscribe, remember that the full-text of TIME since 1990 is available free of charge to Wisconsinites …
Quickly following the news of Yahoo! VideoSearch was the release of Blinkx TV Video Search. Despite its name, Blinkx also searches radio programs. But Blinkx goes a step beyond Yahoo! and other video search engines by using speech recognition technology to transcribe the broadcasts, thereby enabling users to keyword search the entire clip. Although the …
Robert Ambrogi of Law Technology News has compiled a list of “some useful, intriguing law-related sites that launched this year.” There is some good stuff here – many were new to me. Source: The E-LawLibrary Weblog