INTERNET LEGAL RESEARCH WEEKLY
April 26, 2009
Tom Mighell

Welcome to Issue #335 of the Internet Legal Research Weekly, a newsletter that delivers relevant and timely legal research information, and other fun stuff, to your inbox every Sunday. If you like what you read, please forward this newsletter to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to do the same! To subscribe, all you have to do is visit Inter Alia and fill out the subscription form -- it's free!

And away we go.....

News Update -- from the Inter Alia Weblog

Blawgs of the Week
Here are some of the great law-related blogs featured on Inter Alia this week -- I'm still making my way through big firm blogs, so you get more of them in this issue.

We'll start with the Climate Change Law Blog, from Denver-based big-firm Holland & Hart. The blog is maintained by Jim Holtkamp, the manager of the firm's Environmental Compliance Group and the Global Climate Change Group, but posts are also contributed by other members of the firm. They are discussing CO2 controls, greenhouse gases, endangered species, and more.

Next up on our tour of Holland & Hart blogs is Immigration Law for Employers, a service of the firm's immigration law practice. They're discussing immigration issues of interest to employers, including employment eligibility and verification, family-based immigration, the permanent residence process, and more.

Moving on to the next big firm on our tour, we'll visit Hughes, Hubbard, & Reed, and their White Collar Group. They're publishing the White Collar Crime Blog for professionals interested in the goings-on in the field, so the lawyers can express their opinions and exchange views with others in a public forum. Also check out the Useful Links page, which provides some good resources for the white collar defense lawyer.

Help Desk

Here's an easy tip for Outlook users. If you feel constrained by the Day/Week/Month views, don't worry -- you can view consecutive or even non-consecutive, with only a few keyboard clicks. Here's how:

  • To view consecutive days, just go to your calendar, click on the first date you want to look at and then click ALT+ the number of days you want to view. ALT+3 will look at the next three days - you can only look at up to 9 consecutive days.
  • To view nonconsecutive dates on the calendar, go to the thumbnail version of your calendar -- it's either on the left or right hand side, depending on what version of Outlook you use. Click on the first date you want to see, then press and hold CTRL and use the mouse to click on the other dates you want to see. Those nonconsecutive dates will appear on your calendar screen.
Do you have a question about searching the Internet or your computer in general? Drop me an e-mail at tom(at)inter-alia(dot)net – I’ll post your question (don’t worry, I won’t use your real name) and try to get an answer for you!

Legally Relevant – Sites on the Internet

CDC Swine Flu Information
A timely site today -- the CDC maintains this page with up-to-date information on the latest swine flu outbreak. They are updating the page every day at 3:00ET with new case data. You can also find general information on the flu, guidance for individuals in states where infections have been identified, documents, travel notices, transcripts, reports and publications, and more. There's even an RSS feed to you can have the latest news delivered directly to you.

National Compensation Survey
The National Compensation Survey is part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It provides comprehensive measures of occupational wages, employment cost trends, and benefit incidence. There's too much information here to describe in a brief paragraph, so you'll have to take a look. The Survey provides free access to a number of indexes, both tables and text files -- all databases are searchable. And to continue my love for RSS, there's a feed here so you can receive the latest numbers.

National Parkinson Foundation
The mission of the NPF is to improve the quality of care for people with Parkinson's Disease through research, education, and outreach. You'll find a lengthy section describing Parkinson's, providing treatment options, help on living with the disease and maintaining optimum wellness, and a glossary of important terms. There are also a number of publications available for free or purchase, including The Parkinson Report, with free online issues available back to Winter 2005.

Newspaper Archive ($$)

This site is provided by Heritage Microfilm, which aims to be the world's leading provider of historical newspaper content, focusing on individual people and the events that impacted their lives. The site claims to provide access to over 3.21 billion names, from over 1.13 billion articles. Unfortunately, the information is not free - you'll have to pay $11.99/month or $72/year to get access to the information.

North Carolina Offender Information
As readers know I like to feature research sites from individual states from time to time, and here's the North Carolina offender database for you to search. You can search by name, gender, race, and age range -- the results will show you the alias information for the offender, most recent incarceration activity, and the offender's sentence history.

Finally, some fun and useful sites to help start off your week:

If you're looking for some new blogs to read, check out Time's list of The Best Blogs of 2009. They feature blogs on news, politics, technology, and some fun stuff, too.

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Well, that’s it for Issue #335 – I hope you liked it! If you did, pass this along to anyone you think might be interested, and encourage him or her to subscribe. Also, feel free to drop me an e-mail any time if you have questions, or if you have websites or other topics you want included in a future issue.

Tom Mighell

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