LLRX Update - January 2, 2003

[Cindy L. Chick]

New on LLRX.com for January 2, 2003: 
http://www.llrx.com
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**How Competitive is Your Law Firm?  Competitive Intelligence for the 
Legal Industry 
http://www.llrx.com/features/ci.htm

Cynthia Cheng Correia defines the elements involved in the competitive 
intelligence process, and details how these factors can be 
successfully leveraged in the law firm environment.


**The Wacky World of Gadgets 
http://www.llrx.com/features/wacky.htm

Barbara Fullerton and Jenny Levine offer quick reviews and screen 
shots of over two dozen techie gadgets that include weird devices as 
well as some that may actually prove to be practical.


**WestlaweCARSWELL: Third Time a Winner? 
http://www.llrx.com/features/carswell.htm

Catherine Best provides an extensive review of Thomson's new version 
of the Internet-based electronic research service for Canadian law, 
inclusive of screen shots that demonstrate the system's various 
features and services.


**The Requirements for Execution of Foreign Money Judgments in the 
Netherlands Absent a Treaty 
http://www.llrx.com/features/norel.htm

Norel Rosner presents the legislative provisions dealing with the 
recognition or enforcement of foreign judgments absent a treaty, as 
well as documenting the case law on the matter.


**Update to Researching Australian Law 
http://www.llrx.com/features/australian2.htm

Nicholas Pengelley's update highlights legislation, case law, online 
services, secondary sources, publishers, and major texts.


**A Guide to the Lithuanian Legal System - Updated 
http://www.llrx.com/features/lithuanian2.htm

Elona Norvaisaite has updated her already extensive guide with dozens 
of new links to government sponsored websites, secondary sources, 
news, commercial sites and portals, as well as information on legal 
texts.


**Finding Congressional Documents from the Past 
http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference44.htm

Jan Bisset and Margi Heinen focus on websites and print sources for 
pre-1970 federal legislative materials.


**Internet Roundtable #34 - Branding, Part I: Should Law Firms Try To 
Build Brands? 
http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir34.htm

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard and Dennis Kennedy discuss whether law 
firms can effectively adapt many of the branding techniques used by 
other businesses.


**Latest Links 
http://www.llrx.com/links/010203.htm

Margaret Berkland reviews: an area code listing by number and 
state/country, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the Center 
for Democracy and Technology, Google's new e-commerce search engine, 
an NPR reference librarian site, and the SANS Institute/FBI Internet 
Security Vulnerabilities List.


**Tara Calishain's tour of the websites for the fifty state capitals 
began with the December 16, 2002 LLRXBuzz. Please see the links below 
for these columns.

**LLRXBuzz December 30, 2002 
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz141.htm

**LLRXBuzz December 23, 2002 
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz140.htm

**LLRXBuzz December 16, 2002 
http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz139.htm


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