LLRX Update - Jan. 15, 2001

[Cindy Chick]

New on LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com) for January 15, 2001:

**The New Legal Browser that Could: The Law.net Examined and Explained
http://www.llrx.com/features/thelawnet.htm

Roger Skalbeck reviews TheLaw.net, a company providing a subscription based
service to legal materials and categorized Internet sites which are accessed
via proprietary Internet browser software.


**How to be an Effective Cyber-Lobbyist
http://www.llrx.com/features/lobbyist.htm

Stephanie Vance offers insights into how the Internet and cyber-advocacy are
perceived on Capitol hill, as well as how cyber-lobbyists can best use the
strengths of the Internet to build truly effective advocacy campaigns.


**An Internet Tool-Kit for E-Commerce Law
http://www.llrx.com/features/toolkit_ecom.htm

Dennis Kennedy illustrates the best way to track down, collect and manage
the information available on e-commerce law through web sites and other
resources.


**A Guide to the Israeli Legal System
http://www.llrx.com/features/israel.htm

Ruth Levush, an Israeli law expert, provides a detailed guide for
researchers that includes the court system, statutory and regulatory
sources, case reports, legal commentaries and legal databases.


**Research RoundUp: Bill Tracking Resources Updated
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup8.htm

Kathy Biehl provides annotated links to federal government sites and
legislative sites for every state, with links to the history, status, and at
least a synopsis of introduced bills. In addition, she includes commercial
sites for tracking legislation on both the federal and state level.


**Notes from the Technology Trenches: Fine Print 2000 to Cut Down on
Printing Costs
http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes38.htm

Roger Skalbeck reviews an application that can save you money and time when
it comes to printing complex documents.


**Reference from Coast to Coast: Keeping Current on Sources and Strategies
in 2001
http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference21.htm

Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen identify free and fee-based resources, articles
and reports that will help you stay current on a range of issues and trends
in technology and the profession.


**The Internet Roundtable #16: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing
on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir16.htm

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard, Dennis Kennedy and Mark Pruner discuss: the
effect of the Dot-Com crash on law firm marketing; resource centers as
narrowcasting; getting news coverage for your site and your firm; "quality
hits," and more.


**LLRX Buzz
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz40.htm

US Helsinki Commission Launches Updated Site
Company and Industry Information in One Enormous Package
All The Area Code Information You Could Possibly Want
Yahoo News Adds New(?) Features
News for the Newbie
Find Those NonProfits


**LLRX Latest Links
http://www.llrx.com/links/index.htm

Apps.com - portal for thousands of apps
Chinese-English Dictionary
Deathwatch for dot-coms
State and local soci-economic data
British Library Newspaper Catalogue


**LLRX Newstand
http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm

Regulators Out of Step on Issues of the Internet
-How Far Does Copyright Extend in Cyberspace?
-U.S., States Ask Court to Uphold Microsoft Breakup
-Medical Privacy's Tangled Web
-Starr Sets His Sights on Microsoft
-Dred Scott Documents on Web
-Struggling to Make Good on the Promise of an Internet Revolution
-Domain Losers Take Fight to Congress
-Search Engines Take Quantum Leap: 19 of 20 Now Use Link Popularity to
Determine Relevancy
-The Old Fangled Search Engine: Librarians!


**LLRX.com Featured Site
http://www.llrx.com

EconData.Net
Winner of the Digital Librarian Award, this site is sponsored by the
Economic Development Administration and provides over 300 links to state and
local socio-economic data, from private and public sources.  The data is
well organized and the site's navigation is user friendly. Content is
conveniently accessible via drop-down menus titled "Industry Sectors" and
"Links by Provider." The providers include the Bureau of the Census, Bureau
of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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