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60 Sites in 60 Minutes Hall-of-Fame

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2008

  • ACS ResearchLink: A service of the American Constitution Society, this innovative service allows practicing attorneys to submit legal research topics, which are then explored by law students in faculty-supervised writing projects.
  • AltLaw, provides free, full-text access to over 300,000 Supreme Court and Federal appellate case reports.
  • 43 Folders: A website dedicated to personal productivity, and the best information I have found to help control my overflowing e-mail inbox!
  • ABA Site-ation: This blog from the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center has quickly risen to the rank of "Must-read"!
  • Compujurist: Wisconsin Practice Management Advisor Nerino Petro's blog provides terrific, timely information on legal technology, practice management, and other items of interest to lawyers.
  • Ediscoveryinfo: a new blog from Brett Burney, legal technologist and e-discovery consultant. Brett covers topics like accessibility, computer forensics, litigation holds, spoliation, and other electronic discovery matters on a regular basis.
  • BuyerZone: Need to buy a phone system, find someone to design a firm logo, or outsource your payroll and don't know where to start? Then start with the objective and informative free Buyer's Guides at BuyerZone.com. Just click on any product or service offered on the home page, then look for the guide listed in the right-hand column.
  • TripIt: TripIt acts as your personal travel agent, organizing your travel plans into a formatted itinerary. Just forward to TripIt the confirmation emails you receive from the airline, car rental agency, hotel, or other travel service --TripIt will take all of the information and combine it into a fantastic-looking itinerary, to which you can add maps, directions, photos, and more. TripIt itineraries are also easy to share with others.
  • I Park Like an Idiot: In a follow-up to Sharon Nelson's site last year, this site just does one thing sells you packages of stickers you can place on the cars of bad parkers, which simply say "I Park Like an Idiot!"
  • TED: Each year, fifty of the world's most fascinating thinkers gather in Monterrey and deliver the 18 minute speech of their lives about an exciting idea in science, business, the arts and the global issues. The TED website makes these wonderful talks available to the rest of us as streaming video.

2007

  • www.lawmemo.com/SCT/ Covering all U.S. Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to know about a case. The front page lists all cases on the court's docket. Each case is linked to its own omnibus page. The page includes a plain-English summary of the case, the questions presented and links to blog commentary, the lower-court opinions, the oral argument transcript, all briefs, the decision when issued, counsel for each party and outside resources.

  • thomas.loc.gov/ This is an oldie but goodie and it just keeps getting better. I've always used this site to watch Congress and the progress of legislation, but the site now carries links to the Constitution, access to Committee reports, treaties, the U.S. Code, government legal resources, and even webcasts from the Library of Congress.

  • www.morepartnerincome.com - A fantastic website/blog updated every day with a variety of information related to increasing law firm partner income and business intelligence tools.

  • blogs.adobe.com/acrolaw/ An entire blog devoted to using Adobe Acrobat in a legal environment. Rick Borestein's blog is becoming THE go to place for questions law firms have about their digital documents

  • www.72hours.org/index.html San Francisco has done a bang up job of compiling a simple guide to common disasters and the questions they give rise to. Is your family prepared for floods, terrorist attacks, or long term power outages? An excellent starting point

2004

  • Oyez Project
    www.oyez.org
    This multimedia database of U.S. Supreme Court materials allows you to listen to complete recordings of actual oral arguments and take a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building.
  • Copyright and Fair Use
    http://fairuse.stanford.edu
    This site features an incomparable collection of copyright law materials and links with a focus on primary source materials, sponsored by Stanford University Libraries.
  • Google
    www.google.com
    King of the search-engine hill, Google is so thorough that its name has become synonymous with performing background research.
  • TinyURL
    www.tinyurl.com
    This site converts long URLs into tiny ones that won't break in e-mails or fill up a document.
  • FindLaw
    www.findlaw.com
    Launched in 1994, acquired by West in 2001, FindLaw remains the best starting point for finding legal information on the Web.
  • LexisOne
    www.lexisone.com
    From Lexis-Nexis, this resource, which was designed for solo and small-firm lawyers, provides access to free case law, free legal forms and more.

2003

  • ABA Law Practice Management Section
    www.lawpractice.org
    Way new and very improved. So we are noting it again.
  • beSpacific
    www.bespacific.com
    Sabrina I. Pacifici, founder of LLRX.com, provides daily news reports covering law, legal information management and technology.
  • CERT Home Computer Security
    www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecurity
    Guide to keeping your home computer secure.
  • Law Practice Today
    www.lawpracticetoday.org
    The ABA Law Practice Management Section central source for the latest on managing your firm; including cutting information and articles on technology, finance, management and marketing.
  • Snopes.com
    www.snopes.com
    Urban legends reference pages.
  • Virtual Naval Hospital
    www.vnh.org
    Good medical links.

2002

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
    www.eff.org
    Defending digital privacy freedom in a digital world.
  • Federal Judicial Center
    www.fjc.gov
    The education and research agency for the federal courts.
  • FirstGov
    www.firstgov.com
    Official gateway to U.S. government information on the Internet, connecting to more than 51 million pages on more than 20,000 federal, state, territorial and tribal sites.
  • Gibson Research Corporation
    www.grc.com
    Learn about your computer's vulnerability to hackers.
  • GPO Access
    www.gpoaccess.gov
    The premier source for finding federal government materials online.
  • The Internet Wayback Machine
    http://web.archive.org
    Set the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody, to the early days of the Web. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you search more than 30 billion Web pages archived since 1996.
  • The Invisible Web Revealed
    http://library.rider.edu/scholarly/rlackie/Invisible/Inv_Web.html
    A guide to the "invisible Web"&8211;information stored on databases that shut out traditional search engines.
  • Lavasoft’s Ad-aware
    www.lavasoftusa.com
    Find malicious spyware and adware on your system
  • VersusLaw
    www.versuslaw.com
    The first comprehensive caselaw research service on the Web when it launched in 1995, it remains a good deal today.

2001

  • ABA Law Practice Management Section
    www.lawpractice.org
    The ABA Section that produces ABA TECHSHOW® and is your source for all the best resources to help improve the way you run your practice.
  • ABA Law Practice Management Publications
    www.lawpractice.org/catalog
    The online catalog of the best books and other publications on law practice marketing, management, technology, and finance.
  • ABA TECHSHOW
    www.techshow.com
    What it's all about, baby. The premier legal technology conference.
  • CNET Shopper
    http://shopper.cnet.com
    For all the gadgets you wish you had.
  • FindLaw
    www.findlaw.com
    From a humble index of Internet resources has grown one of the best starting points for finding legal information on the Web.
  • InfoSpace Reverse Phone Lookup
    http://www.infospace.com/info/revphone.htm
    When you've got the number, but not the name.
  • LLRX
    www.llrx.com
    Since 1996, this Webzine for legal professionals has published leading-edge articles on legal research, technology, and management.
  • Legal Information Institute
    www.law.cornell.edu
    Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute pioneered legal publishing on the Internet and has continued to innovate ever since.
  • LegalEthics.com
    www.legalethics.com
    Since 1995, this site has been devoted to helping lawyers explore the unique ethical issues raised by the Internet.
  • Medscape
    www.medscape.com
    This free site features MEDLINE along with content from more than 50 medical journals and textbooks and daily medical news.
  • The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
    www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/home.jsp
    Free on-line version of the oldest continuously published general medical textbook in the English language.
  • Nolo Self-Help
    www.nolo.com
    The home of do-it-yourself law, but good stuff for lawyers too.
  • Refdesk.com
    www.refdesk.com
    You've got questions? Refdesk has answers.
  • Search Systems Public Record Databases
    www.searchsystems.net
    Links to more than 17,000 free public-record databases.
  • Villanova Legal Express
    http://vls.law.vill.edu/library/express
    The express lane to Internet legal research.
  • WashLaw WEB
    www.washlaw.edu
    From Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, one of the earliest legal indexes on the Internet and still among the most exhaustive.
  • The Virtual Chase
    www.virtualchase.com
    From Genie Tyburski, a law librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, this is a practical guide to legal research on the Internet.
  • Vmyths.com
    www.vmyths.com
    Debunker of virus myths, Internet hoaxes and urban legends.

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