LLRX.com Update for July 5, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com), the free Web journal providing current, 
comprehensive articles and resources for legal professionals and law 
librarians on research, information technology, digital legislation, 
cybernews, Web links and Web tools for researchers, software reviews, and
presentation/marketing/training issues, since 1996. 

Editors: Sabrina I. Pacifici & Cindy L. Chick. 
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New on LLRX.com, July 5, 2000

Law.com: A Constructive Critique 
Blake Bell reviews the content, design and navigation of this major legal
information portal. 
 
Why Microsoft Word is Not Ready for the Law Office: Looking Beyond Features to
Quality
Paul E. Merrell details major problems with Microsoft Word footnote and endnote
bugs, from the perspective of the practitioner. 

Beyond the Border: The Construction of the Chinese Legal Information System in
Cyberspace
Joan Liu's guide on the evolution of electronic legal resources from the
People's Republic of China includes databases, websites, CD-ROM products and
other non-print materials. 

Guide on the Side: Listen Up - Communications Depends on Learning to Listen
With American's known as among the world's worst listeners, and studies showing
that we miss up to 75% of what is said to us, Marie Wallace's article offers
important information on learning to listen effectively. 

CongressLine: Net Consumer Protections Proposals
Carol Morrissey reports about the significant increase in online fraud and the
response of organizations including the FTC, the Department of Commerce, Better
Business Bureau Online and industry groups. 

Web Critic: Evaluating Legal Research Web Sites - Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of California
Attorney and author Kathy Biehl's column evaluates Web sites in terms of their
usefulness and functionality. This installment highlights a site that does it
right! 

Washington Legal Resources on the Internet 
Brad Hillis reviews Washington state resources on the Web, including state
laws,
case law, forms, law school guides, and substantive materials published on law
firm sites. 

Integrating Research Capabilities into Your Intranet: It's Not Just Web Links
Anymore
Cindy Chick's PowerPoint presentation incorporates examples of major law firm
intranet pages with information on how best to create an application rich in
content and value for the users. 

LLRXBuzz (to subscribe to an e-mail version of this column, go to
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz14.htm)
Tara Calishain reviews: Google's hidden special syntaxes; Loislaw's two new
products; the release of Opera 4.0 for Windows; IllinoisLawFinder.com; and the
new translation service, LiveLanguageNow.com.

In Latest Links, Margaret Berkland highlights: online privacy protection
software; a pathfinder for health/medical information; an excellent finding aid
for journals online; fifty state family law tables; and a site on computer file
name extensions.

Newstand and CongressLine Links 
Stories include the latest news and views on the Feds current plan for a
comprehensive government Web portal, this time to be called FirstGov; Napster's
new defense strategy and new team of lawyers; web patent controversies; failed
dot-coms selling personal user data; search engines companies increasingly
adding the human element back into their systems; the Philly Bar will offer
free legal services in Spanish and English; the House easing e-mail limits;
filtering for school internet access; and a new system to prevent online
censorship.


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