LLRX.com update for December 17, 2001

[Cindy L. Chick]

New on LLRX.com for December 17, 2001:
http://www.llrx.com


**The Domestic Cat and the Law: A Guide to Available Resources
http://www.llrx.com/features/catlaw.htm

Stephen Young's guide is a wonderful, comprehensive document on
legislation, regulations, landmark cases, texts, secondary sources,
organizations and groups, and related web sites, all of which focus on
the 73 million felines that share the lives of Americans.


**Court Decisions Tilt DMCA Balance Away From Libraries, Users
http://www.llrx.com/features/dcma.htm

K. Matthew Dames documents the view that there is an advancing trend in
which Congress, copyright owners and the courts narrow consumers' speech
and copyright rights in the digital age.


**Liftoff Over the Lifting of the Arbitration Awards Database: PIABA v.
CCH and SAC http://www.llrx.com/features/piaba.htm

T.R. Halvorson addresses the controversy over the Public Investors
Arbitration Bar Association's 'theft' of the SAC-CCH Awards Library
database of 26,000 documents.


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

Elona Norvaisaite's guide covers the Lithuanian legal system, sources of
law, courts and case law, government information, and a range of topical
information for researchers.


**Update to An Overview of Polish Law
http://www.llrx.com/features/polish.htm

Piotr Rakowski and Robert Rybicki's updated guide highlights sources of
online and hard copy resources on Polish law, government ministries and
agencies, legal organizations and the profession, and legal research
tools.


**Weighing the Benefits of Legal Portals
http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes48.htm

Cindy Curling reviews the major and minor legal portals, detailing the
strengths and weaknesses in their respective services and content.


**Finding Lawyers - Directories, Web Sites & State Bar Sources
http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference32.htm

Jan Bisset and Margi Heinen direct you to the best sources for finding
attorney information on the web, including a list of state bar sites
with membership information.


**Business Filings Databases -- Updated
http://www.llrx.com/columns/roundup19.htm

Kathy Biehlupdates the free and fee-based services business and
corporate filings data made available by all the states via the Web.


**Latest Links
http://www.llrx.com/links/121701.htm

Margaret Berkland reviews: Sperling's Best Places; a resource on Cyber
Squatting; How to Interview.com; PriceWaterhouseCoopers Portal; and a
searchable portal that identifies online hoaxes and real virus threats.


**Editor's Featured Site - Europemedia.net 
http://www.europemedia.net/

This recently launched news portal, still under development, is from the
BBC, and carries no advertising. Their stated goal is to be the leading
online news provider outside of the U.S. Useful features include the
ability to search news stories by country and topic and to view current
and archived headlines sorted by country. A free, customized weekly
email update is also available. (Editor, Sabrina I. Pacifici)


**LLRXBuzz December 17, 2001 http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz87.htm

Tara Calishain reviews:

-California Ballot Propositions Database
-Small Business Law
-UK Law Dictionaries
-FILExt
-Dot-gov Sites Strive for Better Usability
-Google Expands Every Whichaway
-Xrefer Officially Launches Xreferplus Reference Search Engine

**LLRX.com Newstand - Updated daily: the latest news on legal-tech
issues, legislation, web resources and services, online research and
more. http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm