LLRX Update - September 4, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

New on LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com) for September 4, 2000

**E-Mail Security Symposium: Program Information and Index

LLRX.com and Internet for Lawyers present a multi-faceted program for
practitioners and the legal community. MCLE credit is offered in California,
New York & Arizona for this symposium that provides a range of content,
including articles written by legal experts, a moderated Discussion Forum
with a distinguished Faculty, and an Interactive Quiz.


**E-Mail Security: Reality Check

Do attorneys have a responsibility to encrypt their confidential e-mail? Is
the ABA formal opinion 99-413 on this issue open to different
interpretations? What about malpractice liability? Jerry Lawson, lawyer and
author of The Complete Internet Handbook for Lawyers, responds to these
questions.


**Six Myths of E-Mail Security

Jerry Lawson focuses on six myths that can be major obstacles to making well
founded decisions concerning e-mail security.


**Forwarderlaw.com: A Comprehensive Resource for Legal Information on
International Transport and Logistics

Attorney Peter Jones, an expert in all facets of transport law, is the
General Editor of this unique free site, with worldwide contributors.


**Doing Legal Research in Romania

Dana Neacsu, a lawyer, law librarian and former judge, provides detailed
information in six major areas: the Romanian legal system; primary legal
resources; secondary legal resources; legal organizations; and specific
topics in Romanian law.


**Web Critic: State Tax License Services on the Web

Kathy Biehl focuses on examples of several sites that offer different
approaches to providing interactive content on state tax licenses.


**CongressLine: Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace

Carol Morrissey's article begins with the fact that almost three-quarters of
all major firms in the United States are recording and/or reviewing the
e-mails, telephone calls and computer files of their employees. Now that she
has your attention, click on this link and read more!


**Guide on the Side - Parliamentary Procedure (Part I), How and Why to
Improve
Your Skills

According to Marie Wallace, the average adult American belongs to six
organized groups at any one time. Learning how to present your ideas, be
they in the context of an elected government office or within professional
associations, is a valuable skill.


**Searching for Government Information? Shed a Little Northern Light on the
Subject

Diana Botluk reviews the value-added features of Northern Light and the
special service they offer, Usgovsearch, that results from a collaboration
with NTIS.


**The Internet Roundtable #12: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing
on the Internet

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard, Dennis Kennedy and Sandy Ramlet have a three
part discussion on the following: Do I Really Want to Give Information
Away?; The Difficulties in Charging for Information; and Capitalizing Off Of
Free Content.


**Margaret Berkland's Latest Links (http://www.llrx.com/links) include:
Searching the Deep Web (content in searchable databases that only appears
dynamically in response to a direct query); a site on federal programs
concerning disabilities; a search engine for finding sample sounds and
sounds effects on the Web; the "fastest Web-based translation service"; and
a site with 500 useful searches listed by topic.


**LLRX Featured Book:  Secrets & Lies -  Digital Security in a Networked
World.

**LLRX Web site of the Week: Librarians' Index to the Internet

Administered by the California State Library, and maintained by reference
librarian Carol Leita, this site provides a searchable directory of over
6,600 vetted and annotated resources organized by subject. Updated weekly,
this site is well worth a visit for links on topics including Searching the
Internet, Government, Medicine and the Reference Desk.

**LLRX Newstand (http://www.llrx.com/newstand)

Learn about the war against spam being waged by the Mail Abuse Prevention
System; Fallout from the Emulex hoax includes a lawsuit against Bloomberg
and Internet Wire; Amazon.com's new privacy policy doesn't include privacy;
Yellowonline.com's challenge to print Yellow Pages; Trademark owners are
winning many domain fights; Companies using real people to search the Web
for you for a fee; AOL is adding speech-recognition to their service; The
challenges of fighting cybercrimes; Auctioning legal services online;
Colleges ban Napster; The Web contributes to the rise of identity theft; AOL
and time Warner officials to testify; Online companies and California sales
tax...

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