Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Tony Chan, information specialist at Quarles & Brady LLP, Milwaukee and LLAW Government Relations Committee Chair, has written an excellent article on Gathering Competitive Intelligence for Litigators and Business Lawyers. In the article, which appears in the April 2007 Wisconsin Lawyer, Tony covers: Online Sources of Public Records Background Checks Finding Company and Industry Information …
Coolexon is a dictionary and multi-language translation software providing results in over 60 languages. It offers users a variety of free dictionaries and translation tools in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and other major languages in the world. And Coolexon is only 3.3MB. Coolexon has two key features: cursor translation and text translation. With …
Yet another one from the latest edition of Law Library Journal (Winter 2007). In her column, Technology for Everyone . . ., Diane Murley explains Mind Mapping Complex Information. Abstract: Ms. Murley introduces mind mapping as a technique for handling complex information, discusses its application to some functions of law librarians, and lists some of …
Citrus (think Cit-r-us) is a new legal citation tool which automatically corrects legal citations in Word as you type. “When you’re ready to type a citation, press F2 and make an educated guess. Once you’re done, press F2 again, and Citrus will generate a correct Bluebook citation.” An individual license is available for $495 per …
It often happens that I’m in my car or walking somewhere when I remember something that I’m supposed to do. Or I think of something that I need to reminder my husband about. And I always seem to be without a pen and paper. That’s why I’m excited about a free new web service called …
Free Adobe for Legal Professionals eSeminar: In conjunction with LLRX, Adobe is hosting a free eSeminar on Acrobat 8: Top Features for Legal Professionals. The eSeminar, to be be held on Thursday, January 25, 2007,1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Eastern, will cover how to create PDF files from Microsoft Office, the web and other programs, …
The UW Law Library has recently upgraded our IM/chat reference service with a new tool called Plugoo. We’ve added a text chat box to our home page inviting our students, faculty, and staff to contact us with reference questions. And it was free and easy. Interested in developing a chat service for your organization? Just …
From inter alia: Remote Printing Made Easy PrinterAnywhere is an interesting application — it allows you to safely print documents on any printer, anywhere in the world — or to have documents printed on your computer from anywhere in the world. It’s a free download, but both you and the owner of the other printer …
The ABA reports that the newly released Adobe Acrobat 8.0 contains several new features of particular interest to attorneys. These include redaction, show metadata, Bates numbering, improved forms functions, collaboration tools, and more. For more, the review in Law.com and the white paper entitled “Adobe Acrobat 8.0 for Legal Professionals” by David Masters.
This morning I learned about two neat collaborative office tools: Writely – Word Processor (from Boing Boing): Google has re-launched Writely, the online word-processor they recently bought, in public beta. Writely does everything most things Word does, for free — and saves its output as PDFs and even RSS feeds (subscribe to a word-processor doc!). …