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Library Extension is a free add-on to the Google Chrome Web browser that informs you if a book you have searched for at Amazon.com is available from your public library. Once installed, you must select your library (if available) from the list of supported libraries. (Be sure to click the green "plus sign" button to add your selection to your list.) You can add more than one library...
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According to the American Bar Association’s 2013 Legal Technology Survey Report, 96% of respondents report they conduct legal research online, but that they are less satisfied with free resources than with fee-based resources. The 2012 Research Intelligence Group’s “New Attorney Research Methods Survey” found that new associates (five years or less) spend about 31% (14.5...
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Software company Hidden Reflex has released its Epic Privacy Browser designed to protect users’ privacy when surfing the Internet. By offering “comprehensive…private browsing” as its default, the Epic Privacy Browser eliminates or blocks many of the convenience features now common in Web browsers that store information about...
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RingMeMaybe is a new app for iOS that allows you to create and manage an unlimited number of virtual (disposable) phone numbers (and delete them) for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. The application is available as a free download from the iTunes AppStore , which includes 20 credits – to be used for two new virtual phone numbers that each last for one week (or one virtual phone number that can...
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Rick Klau, a partner at Google Ventures, has been set to deliver the Keynote address at ABA TECHSHOW 2014 on Friday March 28, 2014 at 12:45 PM. At Google Ventures, Klau helps lead Startup Lab. He was previously a product manager at Google where he led product initiatives on Blogger, Google+, and YouTube. Klau's earlier professional experience...
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The deadline for California Attorneys in Compliance Group 3 to complete their Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credits for the current compliance period is January 31, 2014. Compliance Group 3 includes all licensed California attorneys whose names end with letters N through Z. Those attorneys have until February 3 to report their completion of these MCLE activities to the State Bar of...
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Internet For Lawyers principals, Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch will present a 90 minute MCLE seminar (online) based on their American Bar Association Law Practice Division book "Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers." Monday February 3, 2014 1:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern This CLE program on Google Gmail and Calendar will teach you, in...
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California Lawyers and Paralegals can earn two hours of self-study MCLE credit online after reading this article and completing the quiz found at this link. FindLaw and Google Scholar offer free California state and Ninth Circuit federal case law databases (in addition to free case law databases to all other states, circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court). For California-only free case law...
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The California Senate is currently considering a bill to limit the sale or sharing of the information gathered by license plate readers to law enforcement only. We have previously written about the availability of this license plate recognition data (LPR; also known as license plate reader data) from the investigative research database TLO.com. Currently, TLO is the only investigative research...
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USA.gov (formerly FirstGov.gov) USA.gov (http://www.usa.gov) is the federal government’s document search portal. USA.gov searches millions of Web pages from all levels of the United States government: federal, state, local, tribal, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. (Although results occasionally bring back court opinions, this is not the right site to search for them....
