Internet Sources (Especially the free & cheap kind)

Resources you can find on the Internet without spending a fortune to subscribe to pay

services

Who Are We?

Catherine Lemann Associate Director, Law Library of Louisiana

Thorne D. Harris III Solo PractitionerAuthor, & Director of LSBA Technology Resource Center

LSBA Technology Resource Center

What it sounds like it is

Picture of Building

LSBA Technology Resource Center

What it really is

TRC Plant & Facilities

Numbers in Bar Journal

800-295-4960

504-822-5797

Where to Start?

Legal Specific Resources

General Resources

Specialty Sites

Referral Sites

Shortcuts

Legal Specific Resources

LSBA www.lsba.org

Solo & Small Firm Sectionhttp://www.solo-smallfirms.org

See legal links section of www.ThorneDHarrisIII.com

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Cathy’s Favorites 1

Free public records - registration may be required www.pac-info.com - searchable by state www.webgator.org - public records agencies,

professional associations, state government directories, missing persons, unclaimed property

www.brbpub.com - public records, public agencies www.ancestralfindings.com - military, genealogy www.access-central.com - corporate filings, ucc

filings, some death, marriage and divorce records

Cathy’s Favorites 2

Fee based public recordswww.knowx.com www.ussearch.com www.information-search.com

Cathy’s Favorites 3

Locating PeopleYahoo: www.people.yahoo.com WhoWhere: www.whowhere.lycos.com Superpages: www.superpages.com Switchboard: www.switchboard.com It helps to know: full name, place of employment or

profession, last known address, email address, SSN, telephone number, date of birth or death, professional affiliations, military service

Cathy’s Favorites 4

Corporate Information BigBook: www.bigbook.com Company Link: www.companiesonline.com Corporate Information:

www.corporate-information.com free & fee Hoover's Online: www.hoovers.com Wall Street Research Net www.wsrn.com Annual Report Gallery: www.reportgallery.com

Cathy Favorites 5

Expert witnesses - the experts pay to be in the databasewww.expertpages.com www.expertwitnesses.com www.claims.com/online

Cathy’s Favorites 6

Court caseswww.findlaw.com http://www.law.cornell.edu:9999/USCA-ALL/

search.html is the url to search across US courts of appeal 

General siteswww.llrx.com for legal researcherswww.lexnotes.com lots of legal research

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See materials for extensive listing of websites

CAUTION:Website addresses change dailyMay not still be functioningNot warranting anythingSome may now point to OTHER THINGS

Office Tricks on the Net

Keep & share your calendar

Check email at office on the road

Connect to your office and transfer files

Work from home at office computer

Calendar sharing via the Internet

Synchronize to (with) / Publish on => anytime, anywhereYahoo.com, Intranets.com, MyPalm.com,

Visto.com, HotOffice.com, Calendar.yahoo.com

Things you can do with a calendar/ PIM

PIM = Personal Information Manager

Categories (each case a category?)

Contacts / Address Book

Tasks / ToDo

Sync to PDA

Remote Control

pcAnywhere, LapLinkTechnical support; Mom, I’d rather do it

myselfTelecommuting RASGoTOMyPC.com

File Transfer

Get/send file, process locally pcAnywhere, LapLink, Carbon CopyRASGoToMyPC.com

How you connect

Long distance phone dialup vs. Internet

Security, incl. call-back

Costs

VPN – dedicated/expensive/fast

GoToMyPCPhone line or Dual DSL (Office & Home)

Questions?

Go ahead. What have you got to lose?

At least tell

me a joke