Searching Google, or any search engine for that matter, almost always offers relevant results, though with a lot of noise hits thrown in just for the fun of it. I’ve always imagined how Google might benefit from using Boolean connectors…
Archive for the ‘Legal Research’ Category
If Only Lawyers Really Were Ethically Obligated to Monitor the Accuracy of Online Legal Search Services and Required to Obtain Detailed Infomation about Vendors’ Editor Qualifications and Search Algorithms
01
Dec
Carolyn Elefant is a well-respected attorney-blogger but in a recent post on a proposed new Comment to ABA Ethic Rule 5.3, I think she has over-reached to infinity and beyond in her interpretation. The proposed new comment reads in full:…
Some Thoughts on Thomson’s Acquisition of West Being Honored as Worst Legal Publishing Merger
24
Oct
Reporting on the findings of Dewey B Strategic’s self-admitted unscientific poll on best and worst legal publishing industry mergers, Jean O’Grady writes: According to the Legal Information Buyers Guide and Reference Manual, between 1995 (the year before the Thomson acquisition)…
New and Updated GlobaLex Research Guides
20
Oct
New research guide: Nuclear Law Research Guide by Linda Tashbook Updated guides: An Introduction to Sources for Treaty Research by Mark Engsberg and Mary Beth Chappell Intute: Law – the What? Why? How? Where? and Who? by Steve Whittle The…
Reminder: HeinOnline Webinar on New Enhancements and Law Journal Library Subject Searching Set for Wednesday
18
Oct
From the announcement: Wed., October 19, 2011 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT- Register Now What is covered in this webinar? During this webinar we will demonstrate some of our newest enhancements and focus further on how to make the…
Traffickers of Very Expensive Online Legal Search: How do we use and teach today’s legal search services when we don’t know how the search engines work?
12
Oct
One can go back to when the issue of CALR was first much debated in the late 1970s, to view what some might characterize as a “luddite” response to the advent of very expensive online legal search but many of…
