News Items
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New California MCLE Exercise Focuses on Locating Congressional Legislative Materials at Thomas and FDSys
01/27/2013 - 22:26Internet For Lawyers has launched a new California MCLE exercise online focusing on using the searchable databases of legislative/congressional materials such as public laws, bills, resolutions, hearings, congressional reports, and committee reports found at The Library of Congress’s Thomas site and the Federal Digital System site (FDsys) that replaced the Government Printing Office's...
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Expanded California MCLE Audit of Attorney Continuing Education Compliance Planned by California Bar Association
01/25/2013 - 12:58In recent years, the California State Bar Association has stepped up its enforcement of California's Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) requirement for lawyers by auditing the compliance of more of its lawyer-members. In 2013, the Bar has announced plans to audit 10% of Compliance Group 1 (comprised of attorneys with names ending in the letters A-G). Attorneys in MCLE Compliance Group 1...
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Google Revamps Image Search for Faster Results
01/23/2013 - 22:09Google recently announced that it is rolling out a redesign of its Google Images search results pages. In a blog post on Google's Webmaster Central Blog, Hongyi Li, an Associate Product Manager for Images, noted that,"Based on feedback from both users and webmasters, we redesigned Google Images to provide a better search experience. In the next few days, you’ll see image results...
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How to Search Congressional Legislative Materials at Thomas and FDSys
01/02/2013 - 02:57Searchable databases of legislative/congressional materials such as public laws, bills, resolutions, hearings, congressional reports, and committee reports can be found at two governmental sites: The Library of Congress’s Thomas site (http://thomas.loc.gov) and FDsys (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/home.action). (function() { var po =...
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Google Updates Advanced Search, Now Recognizes Multiple Phrases From Search Form
12/21/2012 - 14:05Google has updated the function of its Advanced Search forms to recognize multiple phrases entered into the form's "Find Pages with...the exact words or phrase" box. To search for multiple phrases using the Advanced Search form you must enclose each of the phrases in its own set of quotation marks. Previously, anything entered into this box was treated as a single phrase, even if individual...
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Yahoo! Drops Proximity Connector
12/09/2012 - 16:07Yahoo! no longer recognizes the proximity connector NEAR. Yahoo! does still recognize an asterisk as a proximity connector representing the concept of "within one word." To conduct a "within one word" search at Yahoo!, the search would be expressed as follows: "Mark * Rosch" (including the quotation marks). We have updated our Search Engine Features Comparison Chart to reflect this change....
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Bye Bye Google Apps
12/07/2012 - 17:20On December 6, 2012, Google announced that it would no longer be accepting new domains into the free Google Apps program that had been available to small businesses. Businesses that signed up for the free accounts before December 7 will continue to have access to the service. (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type...
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Continuing Legal Education Seminars 2012 Ohio Tour; Cincinnati, Dayton, Cleveland
11/09/2012 - 12:31Internet For Lawyers principals Carole Levitt JD MLS and Mark Rosch are bringing their popular Internet Investigative and background research Continuing Legal Education seminars back to Ohio. During the three city tour, Levitt and Rosch will present their "Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" MCLE seminar in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Cleveland. (...
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Internet Archive Launches TV News Search With Content Back to 2009
09/18/2012 - 12:12The Internet Archive has launched a new searchable "lending library" of major television news broadcasts back to 2009. TV News Search & Borrow allows users to search the closed caption transcripts of these broadcasts to retrieve relevant news reports. One drawback to this strategy is that these transcripts are notoriously rife with spelling errors and "phonetic spellings" as the captioners...
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Removing Usenet Postings From the Google Groups Database
07/03/2012 - 11:22One of the questions we often get in our live MCLE seminars regarding the Google Groups database is, "Can I remove old discussion group messages from this database?". The answer is "yes" - as long as you still have access to the e-mail account from which the message was posted. Google Groups' Help pages run through the process to delete those messages. The same Google Groups Help page indicates...