The old saying is that there are lies, damned lies and statistics. Wonder what pejorative term should then apply to statistics from the government? Well, actually lawyers often have a need to find government statistics and Fedstats.gov is a great gateway to locate them.
Website of the Week
Site of the Week: Law Professor Blogs
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Law Professor Blogs is a still-expending network of web logs designed to assist law professors with information and daily news in their academic field. Right now the areas covered include antitrust, criminal law, health law, labor law, contracts, sentencing and more. This site is projected to grow and add new blogs. That’s what makes it…
Site of the Week: Freesound Project
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In the early days of computers, we used to customize things, including event sounds. Most of us think we’re too busy to do that now (or maybe it just got old.) Today some of the places where you can find interesting sounds to download are now pop-up, spyware and adware-installer havens. Then, of course, one…
Site of the Week: Baby Name Wizard NameVoyager
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At ABA TECHSHOW’s "60 Sites in 60 Minutes," the site I showed that got the most crowd reaction was the Baby NameVoyager. It is a graphic representation of all of the common names given to babies from 1900 to 2003. Try several of your friend’s names and see how names gain and lose popularity…
Site(s) of the Week: Two New Ethics Blogs
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Recently a couple of legal ethics blogs have been launched. Both already reflect great commitment and scholarship.
The Legal Ethics Forum has been launched by three academics. Professor John Dzienkowski, Professor W. Bradley Wendel and John J. Steele. Since its launch, Professor David Hricik has also joined forces with them. With this many…
Site of the Week: Techshow.com
By Jim Calloway on
Since I’m busily promoting ABA TECHSHOW 2005 (March 31-April 2, 2005 in Chicago) right now, people might not be surprised that I’d pick TECHSHOW.com as my Website of the Week. But it is only lately that this site has grown into more than just a technology conference promotion (and registration) site. You can receive technology…
Site of the Week – Librarians’ Index to the Internet
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What makes a great reference Website? Initially, I’d say it would have lots of links, well organized and well maintained. In fact, too many links can be a problem if they are not well organized. If I am looking for certain information I’d rather have six links that someone has reviewed and chosen for their…
Site of the Week: The Ten Minute Mentor
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"Imagine if, at the click of a mouse, young lawyers could receive mentoring from some of the legal profession’s most highly regarded practitioners." That’s how Bob Ambrogi opened his post about The Ten Minute Mentor yesterday. Yes, this idea is not only a reality, but an extraordinarily well-executed reality recently launched by the Texas Young…
Site of the Week: ABA Legal Tech Resource Center
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The ABA has placed quite a bit of free technology information online at its Legal Technology Resource Center. A good example is the collection of PowerPoint Presentations available there. Some of these are a few years old. Some are fairly recent. They do cover a wide range of issues from technology and ethics to…
Site of the Week-Refdesk.com
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Our website of the week is Refdesk.com. This is certainly a classic site in that it has been on the WWW for ten years. But you still will not find a site that has more easily-located links to factual information. Whether you need to find a list of all the newspaper web sites in…