Category «Features»

Features – Issues in Document Retrieval with DOCS Open

Issues in Document Retrieval with DOCS Open By Matthew S. DelNero

Matthew S. DelNero is a Litigation Technical Support Specialist at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. in Boston, Massachusetts. At Mintz Levin, Matthew is focused on improvements to the Litigation Sections internal research capabilities. As part of that process, he has worked extensively with DOCS Open. Matthew graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1998. As a Junior at the university, he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. Matthew begins his legal studies at Harvard Law School in September, 1999.

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Subjects: Features, Information Management

Features – Growing Your Marketing Department into a Knowledge Management Team: Aim to Hire Assets Not Overhead

Growing Your Marketing Department into a Knowledge Management Team: Aim to Hire Assets Not Overhead By Linda Sedloff Orton

Linda Sedloff Orton is president of Intelligent Marketing Solutions, Inc. a NY based marketing placement firm specializing in law firms, accounting firms and not-for-profits. She is also president for the NY Chapter of the Legal Marketing Associations. She can be reached at 212-420-9777.

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Subjects: Features, Law Firm Marketing

Features – Internet Communications Tools

Internet Communication Tools By Diana Botluk

Diana Botluk is an online legal information professional who lectures, teaches and writes about finding law-related information in an online environment. She is the author of The Legal List: Research on the Internet, and a columnist for Internet Law Researcher newsletter, with a column called Finding Information on the World Wide Web. She teaches basic, advanced and online legal research at the University of Maryland, and Internet classes at CAPCON Library Network. She has lectured at many professional conferences, is actively involved in the Law Librarians Society of D.C. and the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a reference librarian at Catholic University Law School, where she earned her J.D. in 1984.

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Subjects: Features, Internet Trends

Features – Mining Mailing Lists

Mining Mailing Lists By Kenneth E. Johnson

Kenneth E. Johnson is Information Services Project Leader at Mayer, Brown and Platt in Chicago. He is the author of “Lawyers Quick Guide to E-Mail” and “The Lawyer’s Guide to Creating Web Pages“, published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section. He is vice-chair of the LPM Computer and Technology Division, TechShow WebMaster, and editor on the LPM Newsletter Board.

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Subjects: Features, Internet Mailing Lists

Features – Electronic Rule Making: Broadcast List Servers, Hypertext Manuscripts, Proprietary Formats and Tagged Email

Electronic Rule Making: Broadcast List Servers, Hypertext Manuscripts, Proprietary Formats and Tagged Email By Phillip A. McAfee, Esq.

Phillip A. McAfee is an attorney with a Masters Degree in Health Law from Loyola University in Chicago. He is also the owner of the Health Hippo Web site, which has provided deep and extensive links to government documents related to health law, policy and regulation since 1996.

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Subjects: Features, Government Resources

Features – What’s the Jurisdiction on that One? A quick tour of Internet and print resources for determining federal jurisdictional questions in the United States.

What’s the Jurisdiction on that One? A quick tour of Internet and print resources for determining federal jurisdictional questions in the United States By Roger Vicarius Skalbeck

Roger Vicarius Skalbeck is currently the Library Systems Specialist at the Washington, DC firm of Williams and Connolly, and is the Assistant Chair for the Web Committee of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. Current work activities include efforts to develop creative solutions to technology-based legal research problems, from a librarians point of view.

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Subjects: Features, Legal Research

Features – It’s the Content Stupid: A real life analysis of Microsoft and 21st century society, Part II

It’s the Content, Stupid A Real Life Analysis of Microsoft and 21st Century Society Part II By Charles Kafoure

Charles Kafoure is a technology consultant based in Indianapolis. He has been in the business of providing equipment, software and/or services for twenty five years. He has managed the establishment of large, turnkey computer projects in Korea, China, Singapore, Japan, the U.S., other Asian and European countries, and in Australia. He currently focuses on technology services for legal, real estate and other professional businesses. He will soon publish an article entitled, “Litigation Management: Organize Using Project Management Methodology.”

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Subjects: Features, Technology Trends

Features – The Bluebook Empire

The Bluebook Empire By Neil J. Squillante

Neil J. Squillante is the Publisher and Editor of The TechnoLawyer, an Internet publication for legal professionals interested in using technology to increase their productivity, reduce client costs, and become more competitive. Neil also manages The TechnoLawyer Discussion List, a critically acclaimed online discussion forum that serves as both the hub of The Technolawyer Community and the publishing vehicle for certain TechnoLawyer programs.

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Subjects: Features, Legal Research

Features – Search Engines for Intranets

Search Engines for Intranets by Nina Platt

Nina Platt is an independent consultant in library automation and information management. Her past experience includes 10+ years as technical services manager and systems librarian in the law office environment. In addition to her work as a consultant, she writes and speaks frequently about information resources and technology, has developed a number of Web sites and full-text databases and continues to search for better ways to integrate resources, making research more cost-effective. Compiler of Piper State Court Directory, her most recent project is the online newsletter, ILSR : Integrated Library System Reports.

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Subjects: Features, Intranets, Search Engines
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