[email protected] Stark County Law Library Association December 2007 BEGINNERS Expert Witnesses The email address, The Virtual Chase website is membership, phone, address, info@starklaw a great resource for researching email address, Web site and 2 library.org really expert witnesses. Here are a few expertise.” works! TRY IT!! of their offerings: NLJExperts at <http:// JurisPro Expert Witness www.almexperts.com/Expert Directory at <http://www. Witness/> can be searched by jurispro.com/> offers a free name, keyword, or area of directory of expert witness expertise. They have an extensive profiles. 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Just out of earlier this month, delivering a beta is a thumbnail of the comprehensive array of new and videos which will begin play- updated services. ing with a simple mouseover. The full suite includes: • New verticals • Windows Live Mail • More rich answers which • Windows Live Messenger draw their information from • Windows Live Photo Gallery vetted sources and Microsoft’s • Windows Live Writer own Encarta Encyclopedia 11 • Windows Live Toolbar In March, Alive and Google • Family Safety from Windows limited the function of link Live OneCare searching commands Installation is easy and offers (link:,linkdomain:and unurl:) the option of installing the full because of abuse by automated collection of products, or select- data mining tools. Yahoo! still ing only the ones you need. Find provided the link searching out more and download Windows option but “Karen Blakeman has Live at <http://www.windowslive. posted a way to get all three to com/default.html>. 14 work again. Searchers just need to put a + in front of the command.” 12 Page 5 FOOTNOTES 1 - 4 Tyburski, Genie. “Factual Research: Expert Witness Research.” TVC Alert Research News. 17 October 2007. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. 7 November 2007. <http://www.virtualchase.com/tvcalert/ transfer.asp?xmlFile=oct07/ 17oct07.xml>. 5 “Expert Witness Research.” The Virtual Chase. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. 7 November 2007. <http://www.virtualchase.com/topics/ expert_witness_research.shtml>. 6 - 8 Savell, Lawrence. “Electronic Transcript Management Technology for Litigators.” Law.com: Large Law Firm. 14 March 2007. ALM Properties, Inc. 15 November 2007. <http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleLLF.jsp? id=1173776614812>. 9 Tyburski, Genie. “Search Trick: Using Link Command at MSN Live.” The Virtual Chase: TVC Alert Research News. 30 October 2007. Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. 19 November 2007. <http://www. virtualchase.com/tvcalert/transfer.asp?xmlFile=oct07/30oct07.xml#lk>. 10 Burns, Enid. “U.S. Search Engine Rankings, September 2007.” Search Engine Watch.com. 20 November 2007. Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC. 21 November 2007.<http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html? page=3627654>. 11 Notess, Greg R. “Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search.” Information Today, Inc. 8 October 2007. Information Today, Inc. 26 November 2007. <http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=39816>. 12 Notess, Greg R. “Link Searching at Live.” Search Engine Showdown. 29 October 2007. Greg R. Notess. 26 November 2007. <http://www. searchengineshowdown.com/blog/2007/10/link_searching_at_live.shtml>. 13 & 14 “Back Again with Some Great News and More Updates.” Live.com Blog. 21 November 2007. Microsoft. 27 November 2007. <http://livecom. spaces.live.com/>. By Nancy Stinson, MLS [email protected] .