Google this week released version 3.0 of its Google Desktop Search. Its most significant enhancement over earlier versions could also be a significant headache for lawyers.
The feature in question sounds pretty nifty, particularly for the road warriors among us. It allows you to search across multiple computers provided they are all tied…
With a bow to Shakespeare, Diane Levin stages Blawg Review #43.…
The Law Library of Congress yesterday announced a new section of its Web site devoted to the trial of Saddam Hussein. Here is the announcement:
“Through this Web site, the Law Library intends to monitor, analyze and report legal developments related to the relevant trials. Additionally, the Law Library is providing researchers
Released yesterday, Hyperwords is a nifty extension for Firefox that makes every word on a Web page a potential hyperlink to an array of search, reference, blogging and other tools. Simply highlight a word or group of words, and a pop-up menu appears offering options to search,…
Our legal news podcast Coast to Coast this week looks at Diversity in Law, discussing whether progress has been made since 1999, when the chief legal officers of 500 large corporations agreed to push their outside law firms to hire more minorities and women. Joining us to discuss this topic are Veta Richardson, executive…
Google today began rolling out a feature that automatically enables instant messaging within Gmail. Some users will find the chat feature enabled already, others will see it over the next few weeks. Chats can be saved, searched, forwarded and printed.…
Bonnie Shucha made my day, helping me discover my hitherto unrealized resemblence to Mel Gibson. Her recent post alerted me to MyHeritage.com’s face recognition tool. The idea of the tool is to allow uploads of multiple family photos without having to identify each person in each photo manually. The demo version matches…
In other news from The Thomson Corporation, its Thomson Elite division today announced the winners of its 2006 Excellence in Legal Marketing Awards. The awards, which were presented during a Jan. 20 ceremony, recognize excellence and innovation in three categories. Winners were:…
Michael Wilens, president and CEO of Thompson Legal & Regulatory’s North American group, which includes Thomson West, Elite and FindLaw, has been named vice president, corporate chief technology and operations officer for the entire Thomson Corporation, it was announced yesterday. Over more than a decade at West, Wilens earned respect among many in the…
The law library at my alma mater, Boston College Law School, has launched a blog, Reference Question of the Week. Written by Legal Information Librarian Joan Shear, the blog features questions posed to the law library’s reference staff together with their answers. Writes Shear:
…“We thought other members of the law library
I recently noted that Ken Lay’s defense team had launched a Web site. Now another Ken in Texas has followed suit, launching a Web site as part of his defense strategy, the Houston Chronicle reports. This Ken is Kenneth Cuadra, a school district official accused of tampering with government records.…
The Web site of the Bad Credit B Gone Law Firm assured visitors it was a real law firm, “supervised by directing attorney James Brennan.” But federal postal inspectors say the site had no lawyer behind it, and instead was run by a fugitive with a history of bad debts and minor criminal charges, the…
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