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		<title>Google&#8217;s legal research service comes with some hiccups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google's entry into the legal research field with a free service is exciting and provides competition, but Google's not yet reliable enough for most lawyers, according to several law librarians.

Google announced this week that Google Scholar will enable "people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar."

The announcement said people can search by case, or by topic or by "other queries that you are interested in."

Law librarians welcome the news because the two, for-pay online services, Westlaw and LexisNexis, "have taken over all the print publications, especially to do with case law," said June H. Liebert, director of the law library at The John Marshall Law School.

"Sometimes they are the only official publishers" so that even states that formerly published collections of court opinions no longer do so, Liebert noted.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=542&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/11/20/googles-legal-research-service-comes-with-some-hiccups/</link>
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		<title>Illinois Appellate Arguments to be Available Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Illinois Supreme Court today announced that Illinois Appellate oral arguments will be available online beginning Monday, November 2nd.  This is in keeping with the Supreme Court&#8217;s &#8220;desire to bring greater public access and understanding to the courts.&#8221;
Under the direction of the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts and its division of Judicial Management Information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=533&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/10/30/illinois-appellate-arguments-to-be-available-online/</link>
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		<title>7th Circuit Launches eDiscovery Pilot Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom O&#8217;Connor, our LexTekReport.com eDiscovery specialist writes about the 7th Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals&#8217; launch of an eDiscovery pilot program based on the The Sedona Principles on Cooperation and other leading eDiscovery sources.  The 7th Circuit has posted the statement of the program, but I have also made it available here: 7th Circuit Court [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=518&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/10/29/7th-circuit-launches-ediscovery-pilot-program/</link>
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		<title>Lawyer&#8217;s Guide to Selecting a Document Review Tool: The Bright Shiny New Object</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, a multitude of document review tools have materialized in the marketplace.  Linear review tools, those that allow attorneys to review each document one at a time, have been around for many years.  Concept-based review tools have emerged onto the scene recently with much fanfare and excitement, yet there is tremendous confusion as to how this technology can be used effectively and whether is it beneficial to the case team.  There are literally hundreds of new technologies out there promising to help with e-Discovery.  They tout such benefits as lowering costs, cutting review times, and reducing data quantities.  Sifting through all the hype to truly begin to understand what tools one should be using is a tall task.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=510&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/10/28/lawyers-guide-to-selecting-a-document-review-tool-the-bright-shiny-new-object/</link>
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		<title>Court Technology Conference: Be Prepared: Ensuring the Continuity of Court Operations During An Emergency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The impressive experts above discussed lessons learned from two disasters:  the recent Iowa flood and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  They also discussed preparation for other potential disasters, including disease pandemics and nuclear contamination.

I found one of the best examples presented from a loss of personnel standpoint was when one panelist recommended throwing the names of your staff into a hat and randomly removing 50% ore more of them.  That would give you a good idea of who would be left to run your operation if a disaster hits.

The opening sequence of this particular session was extremely moving as it documented the Linn County Courthouse, Iowa disaster, a video weaving both news and court official’s testimonials as to how they were dealing with the disaster, loss of records, loss of location,  and their attempts to keep the justice process going.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=499&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/10/19/court-technology-conference-be-prepared-ensuring-the-continuity-of-court-operations-during-an-emergency/</link>
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		<title>Court Technology Conference: Journalism and the Courts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of the next couple of weeks, I will relate my experiences at this year's Court Technology Conference 2009, hosted by the National Center for the State Courts in Denver from September 22nd t0 24th.  Here is the first article in this series:

Keynote Speech – Ari Shapiro, NPR Justice Correspondent

The Verdict on New Technologies

Let’s start this report by touting the mention of our flagship publication – the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin – by Ari Shapiro, NPR’s justice correspondent, the keynote speaker at the CTC for our article about courts that are Tweeting. (State high court joins the 'Twitterati' – service 'boosts communication by Bethany Krajelis.) Shaprio talked about the need for the courts to make documents, especially opinions more readily available. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=494&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/10/15/court-technology-conference-journalism-and-the-courts/</link>
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		<title>Survey: Social networks show some gray</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Flynn Rooney
Reprinted by permission from the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin
While there are a growing number of lawyers using online social networks, a surprising trend is that older lawyers are flocking to such networks, a recent survey shows.
More than 70 percent of the lawyers responding to the survey indicated they are members of an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=489&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/09/10/survey-social-networks-show-some-gray/</link>
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		<title>ILTA Releases 2009 Law Firm IT Purchasing Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ILTA (International Legal Technology Association) released its &#8220;Purchasing and Technology Survey 2009&#8221; compiled and conducted with the help of  InsideLegal.  The survey outlines responses from 115 law firms, responses that point to a slow down in purchasing and postponement of large projects.  Nothing too surprising here given the current economic climate for law firms, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=481&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/08/26/ilta-releases-2009-law-firm-it-purchasing-survey/</link>
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		<title>Aderant grows some legs with ECM acquisition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aderant, one of the leading law firm financial software companies, announced today that it has acquired StarLaw, an enterprise content management software company.  Aderant has grown some legs now by offering a document/content management system with their financial system to move to a &#8216;complete&#8217; solution for law firms. More can be found on Aderant on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=477&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/08/18/aderant-grows-some-legs-with-ecm-acquisition/</link>
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		<title>Twitter and copyrights, for 25 cents per character</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently posed an interesting question. Can you own a copyright in your tweets? The Internet community inundated his blogging site with varied responses. Some claimed that tweets are copyrightable because they are in a tangible form and because the Twitter website claims no interest on its users intellectual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lextekreport.com&blog=6111993&post=472&subd=lextek&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://lextekreport.com/2009/08/06/twitter-and-copyrights-for-25-cents-per-character/</link>
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