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2 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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6 GIVEGET money, time, expertise & more!books, articles, databases & more! Library Alumni Portal Thomas Jefferson School of Law

7 “Internet 1.0” E-mail Listservs Usenet FTP Telnet pre-WWW

8 Web 2.0 Social/Professional networking sites Blogs and wikis Podcasts (audio and video) SMS text-messaging, IM, chat APIs, mashups, and mobile devices Law 2.0?

9 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(?)

10 A.) Current Awareness: Twitter 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/

11 JD Supra 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/

12 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/

13 http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/10/ articles/another-category/legal- news-feeds-on-twitter/

14 http://scoop.jdsupra.com/2008/09/article s/law-firm-marketing/145-lawyers-and- legal-professionals-to-follow-on-twitter/ http://legalbirds.justia.com/

15 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/

16 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

17 http://www.expertwitnessblog.com/

18 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

19 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

20 Whois Domain name (DNS) lookup http://www.internic.net/ Numeric address (IP) lookup http://ws.arin.net/whois Command line “ping” for IP lookup

21 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

22 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

23 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.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/collections/web/adv anced.html

24 3.) Search the Site Archives http://www.infineon.com/cms/en/product/ind ex.html http://www.infineon.convergy.de/Default.asp x

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26 Some Other Useful Links http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/0 3/best-practices-for-online-networking-for- lawyers-web-20/http://lawyerkm.wordpress.com/2009/02/0 3/best-practices-for-online-networking-for- lawyers-web-20/ http://ustandout.com/index.php/social- media/top-twelve-twitter-tools/http://ustandout.com/index.php/social- media/top-twelve-twitter-tools/

27 Thank You! cdean@tjsl.edu Twitter.com/CharlesDean tjsllibrary.wordpress.com


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