Legal Information Alert articles from May 2001

Legal Information Alert archives from May 2001

Professional development for legal professionals in the new millennium: one law firm's approach.
May 1, 2001... In law firms of all sizes and in all practice areas, managers are concerned with attorney professional development. This is true whether these lawyers are recent graduates or seasoned professionals. In many instances, state bar associations...

From the Editor ...
May 1, 2001... We are proud to present the first Legal Information Alert special issue--a guide to online continuing legal education (CLE). This is an evolving and rapidly changing area, one that you likely have started to research for your firm. We've done...

Online learning: trends and developments in the legal field.
May 1, 2001... Following an accelerating trend toward Web-based learning, there is a growing assortment of online resources for the legal market. Lawyers, faced with ever expanding training options, need to know how to find, assess, and evaluate the available...

Navigating the web for online CLE. (continuing legal education) (Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... "Today, the dominating Web user experience is that on the average, you are on the wrong page," says Jakob Nielsen, a leading expert on Web usability and design issues and author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. All too...

Continuing Legal Education.(distance education services for lawyers)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... If you've read "From the Editor," you know how the idea for this special issue came to me. However, I was not prepared for what I did not know about online continuing legal education (CLE). I learned quite a bit while preparing this issue, and...

Survey predicts libraries will remain. (law libraries) (Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Librarians will be relieved to hear this. In a survey conducted by The Affiliates, an attorney staffing service, today's lawyers do not expect the traditional print (that is, books) libraries to disappear completely from their offices....

BNA launches practice-area web sites. (Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... BNA recently introduced a series of web sites devoted to particular areas of law. Attorneys and librarians can log in daily to read updates on the critical issues in four practice areas or register for a free e-mail summary containing links to...

New advance sheet service from LexisOne. (Brief Article)
May 1, 2001... Advance sheets have been around for a long time, but a new LEXIS-NEXIS Electronic Advance Sheet Service takes advantage of technology to improve upon the paper version. You can select up to 10 courts and the topics (up to 10 out of 40...

LOISlaw.
May 1, 2001... Marc Jennings is the new publisher of LOISlaw. Although he does not have a law degree, Jennings has worked in various positions at Wolters Kluwer and CCH. Donna Tuke Heroy is editor and publisher at Alert Publications, Inc. She can be...

A best practices guide for locating hard-to-find material. (law libraries)
May 1, 2001... Over the past several years and increasingly over the past few months, law librarians have posted to the law-lib discussion list (http://home.olemiss.edu/[sim]noe/llfaq.html) requests for articles and books that seemed to me relatively easy to...