After arriving at the home page, follow the link entitled Attorney Resources and then Directories. You will have the option of searching all the firms in particular area or for a specific firm. Many organizations are using the Internet to share information within an organization. These internal Internets are called Intranets. Fundamentally, they use Internet technology to share information on the organization's local area network.
Intranets are useful for publishing corporate handbooks, policies, guidelines, and directories.
In order to surf the Web, you need to be on the Internet. Basically, the ISP provides Internet service to you in much the same way that a telephone company provides long distance service to you. You will be charged a monthly fee and for this fee will be granted a certain number of hours on the Internet plus some space on the ISP's server to host your own Web site. Of course, the ISP has a constant Internet connection. Some local area ISP's are included in Table .