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Internet Sources (Especially the free & cheap kind)
Resources you can find on the Internet without spending a fortune to subscribe to pay
services
Who Are We?
Catherine Lemann Associate Director, Law Library of Louisiana
Thorne D. Harris III Solo PractitionerAuthor, & Director of LSBA Technology Resource Center
LSBA Technology Resource Center
What it sounds like it is
Picture of Building
LSBA Technology Resource Center
What it really is
TRC Plant & Facilities
Numbers in Bar Journal
800-295-4960
504-822-5797
Where to Start?
Legal Specific Resources
General Resources
Specialty Sites
Referral Sites
Shortcuts
Legal Specific Resources
LSBA www.lsba.org
Solo & Small Firm Sectionhttp://www.solo-smallfirms.org
See legal links section of www.ThorneDHarrisIII.com
See extensive lists in materials
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Cathy’s Favorites 1
Free public records - registration may be required www.pac-info.com - searchable by state www.webgator.org - public records agencies,
professional associations, state government directories, missing persons, unclaimed property
www.brbpub.com - public records, public agencies www.ancestralfindings.com - military, genealogy www.access-central.com - corporate filings, ucc
filings, some death, marriage and divorce records
Cathy’s Favorites 2
Fee based public recordswww.knowx.com www.ussearch.com www.information-search.com
Cathy’s Favorites 3
Locating PeopleYahoo: www.people.yahoo.com WhoWhere: www.whowhere.lycos.com Superpages: www.superpages.com Switchboard: www.switchboard.com It helps to know: full name, place of employment or
profession, last known address, email address, SSN, telephone number, date of birth or death, professional affiliations, military service
Cathy’s Favorites 4
Corporate Information BigBook: www.bigbook.com Company Link: www.companiesonline.com Corporate Information:
www.corporate-information.com free & fee Hoover's Online: www.hoovers.com Wall Street Research Net www.wsrn.com Annual Report Gallery: www.reportgallery.com
Cathy Favorites 5
Expert witnesses - the experts pay to be in the databasewww.expertpages.com www.expertwitnesses.com www.claims.com/online
Cathy’s Favorites 6
Court caseswww.findlaw.com http://www.law.cornell.edu:9999/USCA-ALL/
search.html is the url to search across US courts of appeal
General siteswww.llrx.com for legal researcherswww.lexnotes.com lots of legal research
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See materials for extensive listing of websites
CAUTION:Website addresses change dailyMay not still be functioningNot warranting anythingSome may now point to OTHER THINGS
Office Tricks on the Net
Keep & share your calendar
Check email at office on the road
Connect to your office and transfer files
Work from home at office computer
Calendar sharing via the Internet
Synchronize to (with) / Publish on => anytime, anywhereYahoo.com, Intranets.com, MyPalm.com,
Visto.com, HotOffice.com, Calendar.yahoo.com
Things you can do with a calendar/ PIM
PIM = Personal Information Manager
Categories (each case a category?)
Contacts / Address Book
Tasks / ToDo
Sync to PDA
Remote Control
pcAnywhere, LapLinkTechnical support; Mom, I’d rather do it
myselfTelecommuting RASGoTOMyPC.com
File Transfer
Get/send file, process locally pcAnywhere, LapLink, Carbon CopyRASGoToMyPC.com
How you connect
Long distance phone dialup vs. Internet
Security, incl. call-back
Costs
VPN – dedicated/expensive/fast
GoToMyPCPhone line or Dual DSL (Office & Home)
Questions?
Go ahead. What have you got to lose?
At least tell
me a joke