LLRX.com update for August 15, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

New on LLRX.com ( http://www.llrx.com ) for August 15, 2000

The "Perfect" Intranet?
Angela Hodge, a law librarian who develops and maintains intranets for her law
firm, offers her perspective on the dynamic and challenging quest to create the
"perfect" intranet. 

Digging for Clues About Public Companies
Carole Levitt reviews a site that markets itself as "the Internet's top covert
information specialist providing free, legal, inside information on publicly
traded companies."  

International Family Law: A Selective Resource Guide
Marylin J. Raisch's guide provides researchers with a selective guide to basic
and significant materials, both print and electronic, in the area of
international family law. Topics covered include: marriage and divorce; family
maintenance and support; child custody and abduction; inter-country abduction;
convention on the rights of the child.  

Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource
John Hokkanen's annotated bibliography covers these topics: What is knowledge
management ("KM"); What does KM mean; return on investment, cost justification,
economics; Why are successful KM projects rare; Knowledge management
technologies; KM methodologies; The Chief Knowledge Officer; Law firm KM
articles. 

Research RoundUp: Online Bill Tracking Sites
Kathy Biehl provides links to online bill tracking sites for all fifty states,
plus D.C.  Almost all of these sites provide the full-text of bills, as well as
committee and hearing schedules and other tools for keeping an eye on the
development of pending legislation.  

Reference from Coast to Coast: Finding Law Reviews and Journals on the Web
Law librarians Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen spotlight a range of resources,
including meta-sites, portals and fee based services useful for locating an
increasingly large number of law reviews and legal related journals on the
Web.  

Notes from the Technology Trenches: BriefServe.com and the West Education
Network for Law Schools (TWEN)
Roger Skalbeck reviews a new web service for obtaining briefs and records from
the Supreme Court, and TWEN, a service for law faculty to post course materials
on a restricted-access Internet site for use as a teaching aid. 

LLRX Buzz: The Latest Info on Legal Research Resources
(http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz20.htm)
Tara Calishain reviews: an unusual site offering an online inventory of human
experience; a resource for 11 million U.S. company profiles; a database that
has abstracts from hundreds of business books; a fee-based service that offers
customized market research data; ways to optimize the new google interface.

LLRX Latest Links (http://www.llrx.com/links)
Margaret Berkland's picks this issue include: a comprehensive elections 2000
metasite; a PC firewall guide; a meta-site that indexes 10,000 newspapers
worldwide; a site that users can query regarding salaries for specific
occupations, organized by state; and a site for news stories relating to
libraries and technology.

LLRX Web Site of the Week (home page, right side column - http://www.llrx.com)
A site with well documented guides to web searching, portals and browsers, as
well as current links to tech related news stories worldwide.

LLRX Newstand (http://www.llrx.com/newstand)
Recent news includes: FindLaw's announcement of unlimited access to all
published California case law from 1932 to the present; BYU Business School
tests paperless environment; national and state disciplinary data on doctors is
now available for a fee; 11 pharmaceutical companies are tracking web user
activities on their sites; Judge Patel expands on Napster order; the debate
over freedom of the Internet escalates; major search engines introduce
enhancements; expert advice sites proliferate; the WIPO rules in favor of Yahoo
in cybersquatting case; DOJ replies to Microsoft's brief; GAO deems EPA's web
environment unsafe; Judge blocks Virginia law on Internet porn; and more.....


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