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Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch Named to Fastcase 50
07/16/2013 - 11:25Internet For Lawyers principals Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch have been selected as 2013 Fastcase 50 award recipients. The peer-nominated award recognizes "50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law." Industry leaders, law firm managers, legal technology influencers, law school professors, and entrepreneurs around the world...
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Yahoo Kills Altavista
07/09/2013 - 23:45On July 8, 2013, Altavista ceased to exist. 1995 2013 On that day, Yahoo, which acquired the pioneering search engine as part of its 2003 purchase of Overture, began redirecting all traffic to the altavista.com domain to a custom Yahoo search page. Altavista was launched in December of 1995 by Digital...
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ABA TECHSHOW Seeks Proposals for 2014 Presentations
06/19/2013 - 10:01The American Bar Association’s TECHSHOW is seeking the legal community’s input to continue the event’s tradition of bringing together outstanding faculty to educate lawyers on the most current technology information that will be useful in their practice. Today, ABA TECHSHOW is launching an open call for submissions for both topics and speakers for the 2014 event. ...
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Digital Public Library of America Offers Free Access to Millions of Digital Resources
05/28/2013 - 12:51The Digital Public Library of America offers access to millions of photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, and moving images from hundreds of libraries, archives, museums, and other "knowledge institutions" across the country. Access to the site is free. A free account is required to save searches for future retrieval. While the...
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Sunlight Foundation Offers Directory of Congressional Staffers
05/25/2013 - 18:23The Sunlight Foundation has created a searchable database of Congressional Staffers. The database, listing current members of the U.S. House of Representatives and their current and past staff, is searchable by a variety of criteria, including: First Name Last Name Title Year/Quarter (back to the 3rd quarter of 2009) State Party Committee Offices The database can also be browsed by...
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Google Retires Cloud Connect for Google Apps
05/25/2013 - 16:39In 2011 Google introduced the Cloud Connect plug-in for Windows as an interim step for Google Apps users who wanted to store their documents in the cloud but still use the familiar tools in the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Powerpoint, Excel). Since then, Google has expanded the features of its Apps products. One of those newer features is the Google Drive application for Windows and Mac OS...
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New Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers Book Helps Lawyers (from Solos to Large Firms) Use the Business Version of These Google Apps to Transform Their Practice
04/29/2013 - 14:15The new book Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers will help lawyers easily and quickly learn how to leverage the powerful collaboration tools of Google Apps for Business to transform their law practices. Written by nationally acclaimed authors and speakers Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers...
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Fastcase Launches Bad Law Bot to Flag Negative Treatment in Case Law
04/25/2013 - 06:06Today Fastcase announced a free enhancement to their case law identification algorithm that identifies overturned or reversed cases in its Authority Check system. Called "Bad Law Bot," the system uses "new algorithms to identify court cases that are cited with negative treatment and to alert researchers of a case’s negative citation history," according to the company...
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Manage Your Gmail From the Grave | Google's Inactive Account manager
04/12/2013 - 16:50Google has created a new account management tool that allows you to dictate who has access to your account if it becomes inactive - like in the event you die. The new Inactive Account Manager gives you the ability to decide what happens to your photos, emails, and documents after you stop using your account for a pre-determined length of time. You can opt to share access to your...
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Are All Caselaw Citators Created Equal? A comparison of Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg
04/10/2013 - 21:47During our live continuing legal education seminars we discuss how to use the information found in social media profiles for evidence and how to get profiles admitted into evidence. If a profile owner assumes a pseudonym, authenticating the owner of the profile has proven to be a challenge. Some courts admit the profile into evidence and some do not. For that reason, we’ve been following...