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- Consultwebs.com, Raleigh, NC
- Serving North Carolina Law Firms
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- Speaker Dale Tincher, Web Design,
Consulting 919-272-8052, Dtincher@consultwebs.com
- Web Consulting, Web Marketing
- CLE Training – PowerPoint,
Internet
- Resource Location – Tips,
Techniques …
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- Wading Through The Internet?- Help Is Here!
- Electronic Handout - http://www.consultwebs.com – 100+ Domains,
Directories
- Legal Resources For NC Firms - Research Links, Local and Federal Law
& Bills, News, Bulletin Board, Software Web Sites & Prices,
Miscellaneous Resources
- Services, Technical Tips, Discussion
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- CEO’s Expect To Generate Almost 40% of Annual Sales Via The Internet
Within 10 Years2. The
Percentage Who Expect Their Industry Will Use The Internet To Let
Clients:
- Get Pricing, product Information - 67%
- Consult Service/Sales Personnel - 66%
- Complete Transactions - 65%
- Design Products - 40%
- 2Source: American International College Survey of Forbes 500
CEOs
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- December 29, 2002 CNN article - 60 percent of 2,000 Surveyed Use Web
Regularly
- 80 percent Internet users expect to find reliable news, health care
information and government services
- 79 percent expected to find business with a Web site that will give them
information about a product they are considering buying.
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- History - Dept of Defense 60’s, NSF - 1988 ARPANET To NSFNET ,
Commercial 1995
- Millions of computers linked together to form the world’s largest
network
- A network of networks,freely exchanging information
- Over 30,000,000 people use the Internet 100M In 1999
- A wealth of services- Number 1 Means Of Bus. Comm1
- E-mail, Bulletin Boards (News Groups), Data, Chat
- Free software, multi-media, graphics
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- Find General Company Information and News
- SEC Information
- Forms and Agreements
- Case Law Searches
- People Research
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- Secondary Legal Research - Listservs, Newsgroups - Find & Share Info
- The Ability To Communicate Directly with Clients Worldwide and Send
Received Documents To Clients or Other Parties (Other Services Do Not
Permit This)
- Free Access To Resources Such As The Library of Congress, NAFTA Text,
Supreme Court Opinions, SEC Filings, Law Firm Offerings, Code, Vendors
- Video - Sound
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- Search Engines Are Free Software Engines/Databases Used To Search The
Internet
- Commercial – Google.com, Yahoo.com, Lycos.com …
- Law - Findlaw, Law.com, Consultwebs.com, Alllaw, Lawcrawler, Lawguru,
Fastsearch.com
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- Explore The Search Engine Options
- Finding Info - Attorney, Type “Attorney North Carolina” UNC Sunsite;
Internet Primer - Type “Internet Primer”; US Code, Type “US Code” (With
Refinements);
- Finding People - Call Them.
Four11 (Find People, Schoolmates, Like Interests), Who Where, Switchboar
- Newsgroups- Dejanews- 1,000’s Of Potential Respondents
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- Government - GPO.gov - Government Printing Office U.S. Code &
Federal Register Internet - Updated Daily,
- EDGAR - SEC Documents, Library
of Congress
- States - Piper, Cornell (See
Consultwebs Links)
- Commercial & Org - Consultwebs.com, Bricker.com, NC AOC,
FindLaw.com, NCBar.org, ABA.org,
- Vendors - LOIS, Shepherds, Westpub, etc.
Type http://www. company.com
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- Versuslaw - Reasonably Priced, Falls Between FindLaw (Free) and
Westlaw and Lexis
- West Publishing
- Lexis-Nexis and Michie
- Lawyer's Cooperative Publishing (Now Part of West Group)
- LOIS - NC State & Federal Statutes (Subscription) - Available on
The Internet & CD
- Shepards/McGraw Hill
- Matthew Bender - Authority On-Demand, Shepard's Citations & More
- Key Cite
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- Browsers
- Adobe Acrobat (Example)
- Downloading
- WordPerfect and Word Interchanges
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- Not a replacement, but a great supplement - Narrowing searches prior to
going to Westlaw, etc.
- Caselaw and statutory research are still more comprehensive on
Lexis/Westlaw
- Books & CD’s are still needed - Few sites go back more than a few
years (not to 1800’s). No
standardized system for citation. (Star Pagination - West claim). **
This may change
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- Internet advantages include more current information, more general
information, more contributors, & access from any location with
virtually any equipment.
- When using the Internet for research, check origin, dates and
disclaimers. E.G., NC statutes
example. Current Lexis-Nexis Ad - “Why Surf When You Can Fly”
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- The World Trade Organization provides full text results of dispute
settlement hearings.
- There is a web site which details all tobacco related legislation.
- There is a web site devoted to entertainment law issues.
- Environmental Sites Which Point To Other Sites, e.g., each state and
worldwide (schools, Sierra, white house, EDF, Environmental Law Reviews,
law lists & listservs.
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- Question Posed: “Has anyone considered the risk, both practical and
professional, of sending attorney-client privileged or otherwise
confidential information via internet fax? On one level it should not be
terribly different from sending a fax from machine to machine over
telephone lines, since that is all that is happening on the internet.
However, faxing over the internet at least in most cases involves a
third-party fax server provider, where the confidential fax would be
routed. In our case, we are considering a service offered by our local
ISP which in turn probably uses a network of remote servers nearer the
delivery point. The confidential fax, then would be stored on their
respective servers. Thoughts?”
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- Company name infringement - search proved that several U.S. companies
had same name
- Firms settling cases by E-mail
- Specific type of assistance needed - posted on Newsgroup
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- Finding literature sources, expert
witnesses, locations of people, financial information on a
company, all sorts of government regulation reference materials, IRS
forms, forums such as this, discussion groups on every subject
imaginable, background information, statistics on verdicts and
settlements, etc.
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- I frequently have the need for information readily available on the
Internet such as Statutes for the 50 United States, government forms and
information for tax returns, inheritance tax return forms from various
states, corporate information, price of stocks, locating transfer agent
names for a particular stock, their addresses, instructions and phone
numbers, obituaries, blue book values for automobiles, current value of
savings bonds purchased many years ago, addresses and phone numbers of
clerks of court and register of deeds in various counties and states,
instructions for contacting the Federal Reserve Bank and forwarding
bonds. These are merely a few of the sources I use on a regular basis.
Listserv Contributor
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- Explore The Search Engine Options (Commercial - Google, Yahoo, Excite,
Hotbot) (Legal - Findlaw, Law.com, Alllaw)
- Free Software, Type “Free Software”; Internet Primer - Type “Internet
Primer”; North Carolina Law, Type “NC Law”
- Finding People - Call Them.
Four11 (Find People, Schoolmates, Like Interests), Who Where,
Switchboard, Lawyers – Martindale, Lawyersnc.com,
- Newsgroups - You Can Subscribe, Read, Post (ABA)
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- Boolean and Citation Search Capability Available
- Libclient - UNC & Others - Searches Several Legal Websites To Find
Information Desired
- Findlaw - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Since 1893
- 4th Circuit - Full Text, By Party Name, Docket # Goes Back To January
1995
- International Research Capability, Plus Secondary Sources (Periodicals,
Personal, Humor, Listservs, Dejanews).
Florida Example - 49,000/21
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- Fourth Circuit - Findlaw's Searchable Circuit Court Decisions Since
January 1995. Browsable By Year And Searchable By Docket Number, Case
Title, And Full Text
- North Carolina Attorney General - Opinions & Multiple Links
- North Carolina Courts AOC - Court Info, Rules of Court, Calendars,
Dockets, Forms, Supreme Court Opinions Since December 1995, etc.
- North Carolina Courts AOC - Links From The Library Supreme Court
Opinions Since December 1995, etc.
- The Revised Rules of Professional Conduct of The North Carolina State
Bar
- North Carolina State Bar RPC 241, January 24, 1997. NC State Bar Ethics
Opinion - Participating in a Directory of Lawyers on the Internet
- North Carolina Supreme Court - Decisions Since November 1994
- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Images
- Cache
- Links
- News & Resources
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- Law.com
http://www.law.com
- Dale Tincher
- http://www.consultwebs.com/dtarticles.htm http://www.technolawyer.com/technopost/winner9-25-98.html
- Genie Tyburski - http://www.virtualchase.com
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- The Internet has not replaced Lexis, Westlaw, CD’s and may never do so,
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