LLRX Update - August 1, 2002

[Cindy L. Chick]

New on LLRX.com for August 1, 2002
Edited and Published by Sabrina I. Pacifici and Cindy L. Chick 
http://www.llrx.com


**Finding the Law: Islamic Law (Sharia) 
http://www.llrx.com/features/islamiclaw.htm

International law expert Andrew Grossman's guide is an important and 
timely bibliographic resource that charts the methodology of 
researching Islamic law using print and online resources.


**And You Thought That Gadgets Were Only For the Kitchen, Part 2....
We're Back! 
http://www.llrx.com/features/gadgets2.htm

Roger V. Skalbeck, Barbara Fullerton, Brian Neale and Brian C. Roberts 
have compiled a terrific review of 64 techie gadgets, including basic 
pricing, vendors, links and images of products that range from a 
practical and reasonably priced stylus, to a nifty Windows XP PC the 
size of a PDA.


**Evaluating an Online Information Service for Management - A Fastcase 
Review 
http://www.llrx.com/features/fastcase.htm

T.R. Halvorson offers guidelines and recommendations on how to prepare 
a memorandum to management evaluating an online legal information 
service. He also provides a completed example of an Inter-Departmental 
Memorandum evaluating Fastcase, a new web-based legal research 
service.


**Getting a Grip on the Web: SurfWax Legal Researcher 
http://www.llrx.com/columns/webcritic15.htm

Kathy Biehl reviews a fee-based service that continues the strengths 
of the general research product: targeted meta-searching, result 
previewing and research storage/sharing capabilities, with a few 
twists and an efficiency-minded enhancement or two.


**How Can E-Mail Newsletters Help Market Law Firms? 
http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir31.htm

Jerry Lawson, Dennis Kennedy and Brenda Howard discuss how e-mail 
newsletters can be an inexpensive, simple and effective tool to make 
regular and targeted contact with your clients and others.


**Top Web Sites for Summer Associates 
http://www.llrx.com/columns/notes55.htm

Cindy Carlson recommends web sites on government and business 
information, grammar basics, search engines, litigation resources and 
more.


**Flaming FireWire and Ultra-Speedy USB 
http://www.llrx.com/columns/legaltech8.htm

Brett Burney focuses on the technology behind FireWire and USB 2.0, 
and a few products that utilize the standards to produce significantly 
increased data transfer rates.


**Telling Ain't Training http://www.llrx.com/columns/guide66.htm

Marie Wallace reviews a new book packed with ready-to-use learning 
activities, examples, strategies about how we learn and the best ways 
to make training more effective.


**Latest Links http://www.llrx.com/links/080102.htm

Margaret Berkland reviews: America's Best Hospitals 2002, the Library 
of Congress "Ask a Librarian" service, State Health Facts Online, U.S. 
Congressional Bibliographies, WorldCom Restructuring Information Desk, 
and Worldcom News.


**Editor's Featured Site: InternalMemos.com 
http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/

This fee-based venture ($45 per month for full access - selected 
documents are free) provides an updated database that currently hosts 
around 800 internal documents from corporations including WorldCom, 
Microsoft, Sprint, EDS, and CNet, to name but a few. It would appear 
that many employees just can't restrain themselves from disclosing 
confidential company information, and the site makes it really easy 
for them to do so via an anonymous form (Editor, Sabrina I. Pacifici).


**LLRXBuzz July 29, 2002 http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz119.htm Tara 
Calishain reviews: -WorldComNews.com Launched; -Office of Intellectual 
Freedom from the American Library Association; -Alabama.gov; -WIPO 
Arbitration and Mediation Center; -ITIS Adds Statutes; -Newswise 
Offers Directory of Experts; -Search Engine Gigablast Enters Beta


**LLRX Newstand http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm Updated daily: 
the latest news on legal-tech issues, legislation, web resources, 
search engines, online research and more. (Edited and Compiled by 
Sabrina I. Pacifici)


**9-11-2001 Related News and Legal/Legislative Resources, Updated 
Daily http://www.llrx.com/newstand/wtc.htm (Edited and Compiled by 
Sabrina I. Pacifici)

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