Ernest Svenson (a/k/a Ernie the Attorney) has a good piece today (click here) about Google Scholar (click here), which includes free access to federal and state case law from 1990 forward. Ernie writes, "[g]ranted, it's not perfect (did I mention that yet?).  But the point is not that Google has failed to achieve the lawyer's dream of a perfect legal research tool.  Rather it's that: Google has taken the initiative of making caselaw available for free.  Why can't the government do this? (Apparently no one there knows about HTML and the Internet.) But I'm grateful that Google has taken this step, which I hope leads to other developments that will make all caselaw available online."

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I’ve recently become aware of two handy aggregations of law firm newsletters containing updates on the law in various practice areas: Lexology and myCorporateResource.com. Lexology, for example, allows you to sign up for updates in specific practice areas to be sent to you by email, as frequently as every day. My Corporate Resource gives you the option of searching for information according to which role you serve in a corporation (for example, HR, Finance, Accounting), in addition to other options. Just another example of the Internet putting an incredible amount of useful information at your fingertips. Hat tip to the My Shingle.com and the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog websites.

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