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Internet Research Strategies:
Web 2.0 Tools for Attorneys
Charles Dean, TJSL Library
MCLE Class
Fish & Richardson P.C.
February 12, 2009
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“Internet 1.0”
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E-mail
Listservs
Usenet
FTP
Telnet
pre-WWW
Web 2.0
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Social/Professional networking sites
Blogs and wikis
Podcasts (audio and video)
SMS text-messaging, IM, chat
APIs, mashups, and mobile devices
Law 2.0?
Law 2.0 Tools for…
A.) Current legal awareness
B.) Finding expert witnesses
C.) Researching “back end” Internet
Potential for rain-making and
client and employee due diligence(?)
A.) Current Awareness: Twitter
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Micro-blog, IM service, e-mail “lite”
Concise, rapid updates (140 chars.)
Alerts w/ links (tiny URLs)
Use it to update Facebook status from
mobile device
• “Follow” law-related Twitterers
• http://twitter.com/
JD Supra
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Twitter feed “Law Practice News”
http://twitter.com/Law_Practice
Digital repository
Articles, pre-prints, scholarly publishing
Work product collection (KM)
http://www.jdsupra.com/
LexMonitor
• http://twitter.com/LexMonitor
• Daily review of 2,000 legal blogs and
journals
• RSS feeds by practice area, legal
education, and editors’ picks
• http://www.lexmonitor.com/
http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/10/
articles/another-category/legalnews-feeds-on-twitter/
http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/article
s/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-andlegal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/
http://legalbirds.justia.com/
ThomChat
• TJSL Library blog
• Law news, current awareness, legal IT
• Topics now include FOI, privacy, First
Amendment
• Topics will include Library resources and
services of special interest to alumni
• http://tjsllibrary.wordpress.com/
B.) Finding Expert Witnesses
• Search blogosphere on “accident
reconstruction”
• http://www.serph.com/
• Search LinkedIn on “expert witness” using
occupation = medical practice vs. kw =
vascular surgery
• http://www.linkedin.com/search
http://www.expertwitnessblog.com/
C.) Researching “back end”
Internet
• Example locating contact information of
site owner for serving cease-and-desist
using domain name server (DNS) lookup
• Example finding old product specifications
in patent infringement or product liability
suit using site archives
Researching “back end” Internet
• Locating point of contact info of site owner
for serving cease-and-desist
http://blog.wellsfargo.com/StudentLoanDow
n/index.html
Whois
• Domain name (DNS) lookup
• http://www.internic.net/
• Numeric address (IP) lookup
• http://ws.arin.net/whois
• Command line “ping” for IP lookup
Researching “back end” Internet
• Finding old product specifications for
patent infringement or product liability suit
• Strategies for searching past versions of
site and/or content of old documents
1.) Search Engine Caches
• Caching policy varies between search
services
• Cached version might be the previous
version of a page before the last update,
or pages no older than a few weeks or
months
2.) Search Archive of Sites
• Terms of Use about downloading site
content may limit attempts to retrieve old
documents (see FAQs)
• http://www.internetarchive.org/
• http://web.archive.org/collections/web/adv
anced.html
3.) Search the Site Archives
http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/ind
ex.html
http://www.infineon.convergy.de/Default.asp
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Some Other Useful Links
• http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/0
3/best-practices-for-online-networking-forlawyers-web-20/
• http://ustandout.com/index.php/socialmedia/top-twelve-twitter-tools/
Thank You!
[email protected]
Twitter.com/CharlesDean
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