Offsite participants can perform the same annotation, coding and searching functions that the LiveNote software would allow on site. ELR contains full-text cases, statutes, regulations, agency documents, briefs and pleadings, international treaties, and current analysis from leading experts in the field. The site is updated monthly, with weekly Federal Register updates and an online newsletter updated three times a month. ELR is produced for West by the Environmental Law Institute. West plans to add to the site collections of guidance and policy documents and Superfund decisions.
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A year ago, the American Bar Association introduced the Lawyers Communication Network , broadcasting continuing education programs to satellite dishes installed in lawyers' offices and homes. LCN's satellite service offers some 60 hours of new programming each month, most of it taken from live ABA programs. The Internet version offers several of these same programs, transmitted using the free RealVideo software. Internet subscribers also receive access to a library of some 200 past programs. Users can browse the library's titles, but then must specially request that a particular program be prepared for Internet broadcast.