A Research Site for Legal Professionals .
Many firm intranets provide access to administrative materials and functions.
Most offer online viewing of former paper documents like policy manuals, personnel telephone directories, and department or practice descriptions or benefits. Some allow for online processing of repetitive tasks like allocating disbursements, requesting photocopies, or ordering train tickets or lunch for meetings. Others inform about firm or local events. Most provide select links to external Web sites for research or informational purposes. A research intranet should reduce, and perhaps some day eliminate, requisite knowledge of online research system query and retrieval command language.