LLRX Update - November 1, 2001

[Cindy Chick]

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

**Law Firm Extranets: Baking a New Pie
http://www.llrx.com/features/lawfirmextranet.htm

Once unique, extranets are now a common application in the legal community.
Jerry Lawson focuses on extranet development pointers, challenges to
successful implementation, and provides an online bibliography of resources
and selected vendors.


**Survey of Online Legal Information Alternatives
http://www.llrx.com/features/alternatives.htm

T. R. Halvorson reviews Westlaw and Lexis special pricing options as well as
services offered by Loislaw.com, VersusLaw, Quicklaw America, National Law
Library, RegScanLaw and LawProbe.com.


**Update to A Guide to the U.S. Federal Legal System:  Web-Based Publicly
Accessible Sources
http://www.llrx.com/features/us_fed.htm

Gretchen Feltes' guide is an especially useful resource in light of the 9-11
attacks and increased interest around the world in the U.S. legal system.


**Bibliography on Terrorism, Bioterrorism, the Middle East, and 9-11 Related
Issues
http://www.llrx.com/features/terrorbiblio.htm

Complied by Camille Reynolds, this bibliography provides a list of
publications relevant to the 9-11 attacks and aftermath, along with
associated book reviews as available.


**New York State Disaster & Terrorism Legislation for 2001
http://www.llrx.com/features/nydisaster.htm

This bibliography, compiled by Janice E. Henderson, will be updated to
include new terrorism and disaster related legislation from New York state.


**Update to Researching Dutch Law
http://www.llrx.com/features/dutch2.htm

Oswald Jansen and George Middeldorp have updated their extensive guide with
additional links to government data, legal research resources on the Web,
and a significant range of legal text books.


**The Internet Archives: Preserving the History of Web Pages
http://www.llrx.com/columns/webcritic12.htm

Kathy Biehl reviews the efforts of a tax-exempt organization called the
Internet Archive that has assumed the mantle of rescuing public online data
from oblivion.


**The Internet Roundtable #25 - How Can My Site Help Me With Many Audiences?
http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir25.htm

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard and Dennis Kennedy discuss the many communities
that law firm web sites ideally should be designed to serve, including
current clients, potential clients, the media, the disabled, job seekers,
and others.


**Voice Care for the Occasional Speaker
http://www.llrx.com/columns/guide57.htm

Professional speakers learn to care for their voices to minimize possible
problems.  Marie Wallace explains what an occasional speaker can do to care
for and condition their voice.


**Book Review: Toward A Cyberlegal Culture
http://www.llrx.com/extras/cyberlegal.htm

Sabrina I. Pacifici reviews a recently published book by Mirela Roznovschi,
which is a valuable addition to any collection on international and foreign
law research.


**Latest Links
http://www.llrx.com/links/110101.htm

Margaret Berkland reviews: About.com Closed Guide Relocation Directory and
Assistance Links; All the Worlds Maps; Daypop; The Fully-Automated
Fill-in-the-Blanks FOI Letter Generator; International Trade/Import-Export
Portal; The Post-September 11 Environment: Access to Government Information.


**Editor's Featured Site: Internet Way Back Machine
http://web.archive.org/

This recently launched archival project, encompassing more than 10 billion
Web pages published since 1996, provides researchers with an historical
repository of content that in many cases is no longer available.  The issues
raised by this site in terms of intellectual property and cyberspace law
will no doubt resonate for years to come. (Editor, Sabrina I. Pacifici)