USEFUL WEB SITES

Dear NONE,

Thanks to the internet, today's attorneys have a wealth of information at their fingertips...so much so that the problem is frequently how to narrow down what they're looking for or how to ensure the quality and accuracy of what they find on the internet.  Susan Silvernail and Tom Powell of Marsh, Rickard & Bryan, were recently asked to share with a group of lawyers some of the web sites that they find to be most reliable and useful in the practice of law.  Here are a couple of Susan and Tom's favorites:

Settle It Now, is a blawg that is subtitled "everything you always wanted to know about negotiation but were afraid to ask".  It is hosted by a California attorney named Victoria Pynchon, who became a mediator and arbitrator after handling ocmplex commercial litigation and doing trial work in Philadelphia and Los Angeles for 25 years.  She offers her point of view and that of others on settlement strategy and tactics.

The Last Word, which offers "news of interest to members of the Alabama State Bar", is hosted by Laura Calloway, the director of the Alabama State Bar's Practice Management Assistance Program.  This is a relatively new blawg, but her counterpart at the Oklahoma Bar Association, Jim Calloway, has been publishing Jim Calloway's Law Practice Tips for several years now.  Jim Calloway's topics include client relations, confidentiality, marketing, products and gadgets, technology, risk management, trials and presentations.

The Legal Information Institute is a free site operated by the Cornell University Law School.  It has links to state and federal court opinions, statutes and other legal resources.  WashLaw is a site similar to but broader than the Cornell site.  WashLaw is operated by the Washburn University School of Law.  It is international in scope.

The AnyWho site is a great resource for finding people, places and businesses.  It has a "reverse lookup" feature that lets you type in a known telephone number and find out whose it is.  It also has "white pages" and "yellow pages" listings you use the old-fashioned way!

If you're interested in the full list of web sites, see Susan and Tom's presentation, "Thirty Sites in Thirty Minutes".  The paper can be found by clicking here.