New on LLRX.com for May 1, 2001

[Cindy Chick]

New on LLRX.com for May 1, 2001
http://www.llrx.com


**KeySearch, West's Key Number System, and Lexis' Search Advisor
http://www.llrx.com/features/keysearch.htm

KeySearch is a new, alternative service used to access case law by topic.
Its older competitor, Lexis Search Advisor, applies over all cases and some
secondary materials. Cindy Curling compares and contrasts these useful
research tools.


**Researching Law on the Internet with the Resource Discovery Network
http://www.llrx.com/features/sosig.htm

Steven Whittle's comprehensive review of the Resource Discovery Network
details this project, supported by UK Higher Education organizations, that
provides easy and effective access to high quality Internet resources for
the learning, teaching and research communities.


**Inundated with Offers for Legal Research Services on the Internet? Sorting
Out the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
http://www.llrx.com/features/inundate.htm

Susan B. Hersch recommends effective ways to choose Web based legal services
that are a match for your requirements, from among the many offers that
arrive via phone, fax and email.


**Doing Legal Research in Brazil
http://www.llrx.com/features/brazil.htm

The Brazilian legal system is highly complex, and Edilenice Passos has
produced an exhaustive resource that spans judicial and legislative sources,
primary legal resources, institutions dealing with judicial information,
legal research, codes, topical areas of the law, bibliographic references,
and citations.


**LLRX Buzz
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz54.htm

New York Law Journal Launches NYLawyer.com
Computerworld Announces Online Resource Centers
Survey Finder Now Available on Salary.com
West Group Offers Online Continuing Ed
State Alcohol Laws Database
Researchville Expands Its Newspaper Collection
Acrobat Reader 5 Now Available



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

Margaret Berkland reviews:

Convert-me.Com
The Current Value of Old Money
History of the Federal Judiciary
California Legislative Research
NQuotes
State of the Cities Database Systems


**CongressLine: Internet Gambling - Update on State Legislation
http://www.llrx.com/congress/index.htm

According to Carol Morrissey, the driving force behind the majority of
legislation on the state level concerning gambling is the mountain of debt
being accrued by online gamblers through credit cards, wire transfers and
electronic fund transfers – much of which can not be collected by the
financial institutions involved.


**Guide on the Side: Bringing Out the Actor Within - An Interview with a Law
Librarian/Actor
http://www.llrx.com/columns/guide51.htm

Marie Wallace interviews Mary Dryden, a law librarian who has also pursued
her life long love of acting in theater and film.  She discusses how acting
skills can help people with presentations and learning to handle themselves
in front of an audience.

**The Internet Roundtable #20: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing
on
the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir20.htm

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard and Dennis Kennedy discuss: Learning From Jakob
Nielsen, Web Design Guru


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

National Conference of State Legislatures
NCSL is a bipartisan organization, founded in 1975, and serving all 50
states.
The site maintains links to research, publications, news, a wide range of
policy issues, meetings and conferences.
Much of the information at this site is available via searchable databases.
Links to all available state legislatures are maintained, as well as to
links
to state ethics laws. The majority of the site's resources are available to
the
public, but a portion do require registration.


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

Hacker Magazine is Set to Appeal Web-Links Test Case
ICANN Completes Negotiations for New Internet Suffixes
DVD Scrambling Case Back in Court As First Amendment Issue
Chinese Hackers Strike U.S. Government and Commercial Sites
Company Spurs Courts to File Electronically
Open Web for the World Wide Thief
eFront Controversy Raises Concerns About Web Traffic Accounting
Massachusetts Directs 150 State Agencies to Post Privacy Policies
Push is on to Map the Web
Amazon Unit Settles Lawsuit
White House Web Site Blasted for Too Much White Space
Attorneys General Fear Tech Speed
U.S. Pushes Envelope on Financial Privacy

**CongressLine News: updated daily
http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm#CongressLine

Congressional Offices Prefer Snail Mail
Congress Mulls Internet Sales Tax
Senate Committee May Move Net Tax Bill Next Thursday

**Tech Trends: updated daily
http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm#TechTrends

Tech Terms Are Just a Few Clicks Away
By the Water Cooler in Cyberspace, Talk Turns Ugly
At Financial Web Sites, More than the Scores
Attorneys General Fear Tech Speed
Does Anti-Piracy Plan Quash the First Amendment?
Search Engine Statistics: Database Relative Size