I was a panelist in the session Legal Research Free and Fast! at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Michigan Association of Law Libraries joint conference CALL/ACBD/MichALL 2010 in Windsor, ON, Canada, on May 11, 2010.

1. Legal Research Free and Fast! --
Web 2.0 Sources
by Connie Crosby
Crosby Group Consulting
for CALL/ACBD/MichALL 2010
Windsor, Tuesday, May 11, 2010

2. Law-related Wikis

3. JurisPedia - worldwide law, legal and political sciences
http://jurispedia.org

4. JurisPedia - http://jurispedia.org or http://wikilaw.org

5. Wex - from Legal Information Institute at
Cornell University Law School - http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/

6. SCOTUS Wiki - Supreme Court of the United States
wiki of cases - http://www.scotuswiki.com/index

7. HeinOnline Wiki -
http://heinonline.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

8. HeinOnline wiki -
free webinars, training guides & training videos

9. Lexis Wiki Portal
http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/

10. LN Academic Wiki - user guides, Twitter, podcast & video widgets
http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Main_Page

11. http://wiki.lexisnexis.com

12. TwistLaw - case summaries for law students -
http://www.twistlaw.ca/

13. Blawgs

14. Courts - Supreme Court of the United States -
http://www.scotusblog.com/

15. Academic blogs - http://www.thecourt.ca/

16. Law Professor Blogs Network -
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/

17. Law Librarian Blog - cooperative blog
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/

18. Cooperative law blogs - http://slaw.ca

19. Cooperative blogs - http://www.geeklawblog.com/2010

20. Subject expert blogs - e.g. Michael Geist
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/

21. Niche practice blogs - http://www.farminjuryblog.com/

22. Legal publisher blogs - Kluwer Arbitration Blog -
http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/

23. Practice support - e.g. Above and Beyond KM
http://aboveandbeyondkm.com/

24. Library interests - http://kfmod.wordpress.com/

25. Law Blog Directories

26. Canadian Law Blogs List - http://www.lawblogs.ca/

27. ABA Journal Blawg Directory -
http://www.abajournal.com/blawgs/

28. Justia BlawgSearch - http://blawgsearch.justia.com/

29. Law X.0 - A Taxonomy of Legal Blogs -
http://3lepiphany.typepad.com/3l_epiphany/
a_taxonomy_of_legal_blogs/

30. Blawg - http://www.blawg.com/

31. AALL CS-SIS - Law Library Blogs -
http://aallcssis.pbworks.com/Law-Library-Blogs

32. WiseLaw Reader by Gary Wise - U.S. & Canadian legal &
political blogs - http://wiselawreader.blogspot.com/

33. LexMonitor - http://www.lexmonitor.com/

34. Blog Search

35. Google Blog Search - http://blogsearch.google.com/

36. Technorati - http://technorati.com/ - search for blogs

37. Technorati - search for blog posts

38. IceRocket - http://www.icerocket.com - blog search

39. IceRocket - search results

40. Legal Tweets

41. LexTweet - http://www.lextweet.com/

42. Check member lists to see who included in searches

43. LexTweet search results - “merger”

44. http://tweetlaw.com/

45. search tweetlaw tweets - e.g. “merger”

46. http://www.lawtweet.ca

47. search results - “merger”

48. Twitter Search - http://search.twitter.com

49. Twitter search results across all public tweets - “merger”

50. advanced search - http://search.twitter.com/advanced

51. search for hashtags - e.g. #law

52. Suggested hashtags:
• #law
• #km
• #kmers
• #legalIT
• #CALL2010
• #AALL2010
• #SLA2010

53. Legal Networking Sites

54. Legal OnRamp - http://legalonramp.com
- materials for in-house counsel

55. Legal OnRamp - FAQs in variey of subject areas

56. Legal OnRamp - Ask an Expert (FAQs)

57. Legal OnRamp - collaborative spaces by subject

58. Martindale-Hubbell - now martindale.com

59. martindale.com - Practice Area Resource Centers

60. martindale.com - Counsel to Counsel
Best Practice Forums

61. “able to deliver fully
tailored intelligence to the
desktops of business lawyers
worldwide on a daily
basis.”
Lexology - http://www.lexology.com/

62. Lexology - search by jurisdiction, work area, firm

63. Lexology - related content automatically generated

64. JD Supra - http://www.jdsupra.com

65. JD Supra - Law Centers - news, analysis, legal documents

66. JD Supra - Law Centers - filings, decisions, news, analysis

67. LegalTube - lawyer/client video matchmaking

68. LegalTube - find lawyer by practice area & jurisdiction

69. LegalTube - Drug Recalls & Class Action Lawsuits
informational video alerts

70. Thank you!
Connie Crosby
Crosby Group Consulting
http://crosbygroup.ca
connie@crosbygroup.ca
416-919-6719

71. Selected Sources
• Nicole Black, Legal Tweets blog http://www.legaltweets.com/
• Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell, “Wikis for the Legal
Profession,” Law Practice Today, February 2007.
http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/slc02071.shtml
• Costa Ragas, “Twist Law Wiki for Case Summaries,” Law is
Cool, August 26, 2008.
http://lawiscool.com/2008/08/26/twist-law-wiki-for-case-summaries/