A meaty five part series by Dennis Kennedy, Widening the Digital Divide in Law Practice, appears at Dennis Kennedy.com. Here’s Part 1 (an overview), Part 2 (reacting to Microsoft and electronic discovery), Part 3 (making tech business decisions, security and disaster recovery), Part 4 (portability and the internet) and Part 5 (collaborative tools plus his seven bonus predictions).

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Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, authors of The Lawyer’s Guide To The Internet, have a lenghty article published at Law.com last week, Internet Research Digs Up Private Matters, covering private facts that are public record and general investigative tips. As some may recall, this tech duo presented The Cybersleuth’s Guide To The Internet in Louisville last June.

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Part Two of Digging Deeply Into Matrimonial Data Mining, reprinted from the Matrimonial Strategist, is now available online at Law.com.

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Law students and recent grads can go on to something else. For those of us who predate the internet, however, how to cite something found on the internet in a legal pleading can be perplexing. The Chicago Manual of Style Online offers helpful internet citation tips at the free Q & A section.
Implementing the 1996 American Bar Association Universal Citation Report, the American Association of Law Libraries published the Universal Citation Guide, now in its second edition. It says it “complements The Bluebook by effectively bridging the gap between the current print-based citation forms and the technology-based future of legal information.”

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Inter-Alia has a nice link to helpful excel spreadsheet formulas. Tom Mighell suggested them, so I wasted no time forwarding to all in our office!

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Don’t like or understand RSS feeds? (icon at upper right) Don’t like or want FeedBlitz (email subscription on upper right) for each blog to which you subscribe? I love RSS feeds, so I have no interest in monkeying with this, but The Simply Headlines sounds promising.
“SimplyHeadlines is a once a day email newspaper. You decide exactly what type of news you care about. You pick:
Where your headlines come from
How many there will be
At what time of day they will arrive
The order in which they will appear
And for the RSS enlightened, you can add any valid RSS feed to your daily paper. No software to install -it’s basically an email RSS reader.”
The only advantage I see over RSS for those who are comfortable with RSS is the ability to easily access your news from a Blackberry and presumably a Palm Treo or a Pocket PC.
Thanks to MicroPersuasion for the posting on this new subscription service, which is still in experimental stage, but up and running.

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Many of us have a goal of a paperless office. Evan Schaeffer’s The Illinois Trial Practice Website has an interesting posting by Ernest Svenson on this topic. Despite his caution, he links to two good articles, Organizing Cases Electronically and Managing Electronic Case Files.

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The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet was presented by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch, authors of a book by the same title, at the Louisville Bar Association last week. Their website, www.netforlawyers.com, has a number of online articles and has an email update. Even though the duo gave a similar seminar in Louisville in 2004, this one drew a nice crowd. The book came with the seminar, and it looks like a valuable law office resource.
Most of us must think we are proficient at using Google. There are many rich features of Google that I had not tapped, however: “I’m Feeling Lucky”, “Search Within Results”, “Google Toolbar”, “Google Desktop” and using advanced search tips to access email discussion groups and listserves as well as to limit searches to powerpoint presentations and .pdf documents. The book addresses these as well as public records available online, composing better search phrases, finding experts, substantive legal research, government internet resources, and, of course, blawgs.
Update: If you are on a network, check with your network administrator before installing Google desktop. It was very nice, but my computer slowed to a crawl. I’ll try again, but with some expert help.

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CNET NEWS reports on a recent New Jersey divorce involving a counterclaim for wiretapping where a spouse installed spyware on the home computer. “This is hardly the first time computer monitoring claims have surfaced in marital spats. As previously reported by CNET NEWS.com, a Florida court ruled last year that a wife who installed spyware on her husband’s computer to secretly record evidence of an extramarital affair violated state law.”

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Sprint’s new Family Locator and the Verizon Chaperone sell phone locator feature being launched today are discussed in the Legington Hearld-Leader. “Among the unresolved legal issues: Should disclosure of location data require the high legal barrier now surrounding wiretaps, or the lower legal barrier for less intrusive information, such as what numbers a person has dialed? Should private parties, such as spouses involved in a divorce, have access to location data?”

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