1. Legal Research & the Google Generation SLA - Emerging Technologies Breakfast June 5, 2007 Thomas B. Fleming, tbf@jmbm.com Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP

2. New Avenues of Communication Cellphones – txt msg (t9), Web, camera etc Blogs, wikis, YouTube ($1.3 B), IM Wireless – 37% of Internet usage Internet usage by age –18-29 – 83% –30-49 – 82% –50-64 – 70%

3. Web 2.0 (Social Interaction) Impact No exact definition but participatory Web Blogs, wikis, social networking, podcasts… Who interacts instead of how you interact Library 2.0 – LLRX posting Linkedin.com – new rolodex Lunch 2.0

4. Web – Technorati 4/07 70 M blogs & 1.4 blogs created every sec 22 Blogs in the 100 MSM Languages - Japanese 37%, English 33%, Chinese 8% & Italian 3% 230 M posts with tags or categories

5. Tagging the Web Process of creating labels for online content Bottom up classification not bottom down 63% of taggers under the age of 50 35% of 2/07 posts used tags 28% of Internet users tagged content Revolutionizing the way we classify info

6. Age Groups Mature – 82-62 - Books Baby Boomers – 61-43 - Online & books Generation X – 42-26 & Y 25- –Information is instant, free & correct –Y always had computers –Expect instant gratification

7. Legal Research – X & Y Use resources beyond the books Community Patent Review Project – NYU Law appears as standing reserve not concepts Legal research universe is not finite but the infinite is unorganized Facts & keyword not legal concepts

8. Librarians Role - Paul Callister Library as Portal to the World Library as Social Knowledge Network Library as Transforming User Behavior & Character Library as Transformative & Communal Place

9. Points to Remember Digitally forgotten–What is not on the Web Teach legal research – integrated that is Economics of legal research –billable hours v online costs Internet footprint

10. Bibliography Bridging the Generation Gap Over Legal Research, 28 National Law Journal #40, 6/12/06 Discovering the Latest in Web 2.0 Developments by Connie Crosby, http://www.llrx.com/node/1830/print http://www.llrx.com/node/1830/print Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger, http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ Forty-Two: The Hitchhikers Guide to Legal Research to the Google Generation by Ian Gallagher, 39 Akron Law Review 151, 2006

11. Bibliography (continued) 99 Law Library Journal, #2, http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n02.asp http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n02.asp Legal Research & the Threat of the Available, 94 Illinois Bar Journal 618. November 2006 LLRX.com, http://www.llrx.comLLRX.com The New World Versus the Old World of Legal Research by Patrick Spangler, 20 Chicago Bar Association Record 48, April 2006

12. Bibliography (continued) Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/Pew Internet & American Life Project Teaching Legal Blog, http://tlr07.classcaster.orghttp://tlr07.classcaster.org The Virtual Chase, http://www.thevirtualchase.comThe Virtual Chase