Google for lawyers
Subtitle: essential search tips and productivity tools
By: by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch
Contributors: Rosch, Mark E.
Publisher: Law Practice Management Section, American Bar Association; American Bar Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9781604428223
Description: Google for Lawyers includes step-by-step descriptions, search tips, usage tips, and hundreds of screen shots to help lawyers understand how to use Google's features. In addition, the authors include practice tips, ethics alerts, and various "war stories" from legal professionals. The book discusses the importance of including effective Google searching as part of a lawyer's due diligence, and cites case law that mandates that lawyers should use Google and other resources available on the Internet, where applicable -- from cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why use the internet to locate information; title: Introduction to Google; title: Basic Google search strategies: all you need to know to become a good internet researcher; title: Advanced Google search strategies: all you need to know to become a great internet researcher; title: Google search shortcuts; title: Google SMS: retrieve information via text messaging; title: Google's Uncle Sam search; title: -a specialized search for federal Government-related resources; title: Google news; title: Google groups: retrieving information from over 1 billion publicly archived e-mail messages; title: Google image search: locating photos of individuals, products, etc; title: Google blog search; title: Google finance: monitor current news on public companies and market trends for a competitive intelligence advantage; title: Google glossary: replace expensive, specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias you rarely use by learning how to use the Google glossary; title: Google translations; title: Google book search: quickly locate useful treatises; title: Google scholar: locate information from academic sources; title: Google maps: get directions to far-flung deposition locations; title: Local searching: find restaurants and hotels near farflung deposition locations; title: Google earth: zoom into any location; title: How solos & small firms can compete with big firm technology budgets using low-cost knowledge management from google; title: How solos & small firms can compete with big firm technology budgets using free collaboration tools (Google apps) from Google; title: Google analytics: free traffic statistics for your web site (you do have a web site, don't you?).