The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet
May 2010
The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet: Super Search Engine Strategies, Investigative Research, Social Networking and Ethics
Program Description and Highlights
How is the Internet changing the way legal professionals need to research and run their practice to competently represent their clients?
Can failing to “Google” as part of the due diligence process keep you from winning a case?
What are the best research strategies and websites that will assist an attorney or paralegal in meeting their investigative research obligations?
Come join internationally recognized Internet trainers and authors Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch as they show you how to be your own cyber-researcher and cyber-detective.
Learn how attorneys are using various websites, including social networking sites (such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn) for discovery, trial preparation, background checks, and locating missing persons. Don't be left behind in exploiting this gold mine of information-but learn about the ethical traps and practical risks of using (and failing to use) the Internet.
Every registrant will receive the 10th edition of The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet-a $59.95 value! This revised edition includes:
- Updated content
- Hundreds of new illustrations
- An expanded chapter on using social network profiles for research
- 23 new sites, search engines, and more!
Agenda
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Super Search Engine Strategies: Mastering Google and Beyond for Investigative Research
- Is there an ethical “duty to Google”?
- Develop super search engine strategies
- Search engine secrets and shortcuts revealed
- Key into Google's “Advanced Search” menu
- Locate information from the “invisible” web
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Networking Break
10:45 am- 12:15 pm
Mastering Google and Beyond For Investigative Research
- Glean private or personal information from Google Groups
- Find fax, cell, and unlisted phone numbers
- Meta-search sites and topical search engines
- Unearth deleted web pages to use against the opposition
12:15pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Learn to Search Like a Private Investigator: Using Free Public Records and “Publicly Available” Information on the Web
Mine the web for missing people:
- Develop Internet investigative search strategies
- Find death records, birthdays, and SSNs
- Discover people search sites
- Use online phone directories
Extract background information from:
- Dockets
- Bankruptcies
- Blogs
- Full-text articles and press releases from expensive databases-for free
- SEC filings
- Sex offender databases
- Expert witness sites
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Networking Break
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Learn Why Social Network Sites Are Becoming the Latest & Greatest Investigative Tool (But Beware of Ethical Traps)
- Uncover information to attack a witness's credibility
- Seek out the “smoking gun”
- Obtain useful background information about current and potential clients, potential hires, other lawyers and judges, and the opposition
- Ethical traps
4:15 pm
Adjourn
About the Faculty/Authors
Carole Levitt, Esq., President of Internet for Lawyers and ABA author, has more than 20 years of combined experience in the legal field as a California attorney, Internet trainer, law librarian, and legal research and writing professor. She was the “Computer Counselor” columnist for the Los Angeles Lawyer magazine. Ms. Levitt received her J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL, graduating with distinction, and was a member of the school's law review. She earned her Masters in Library Science and her Bachelors in Political Science at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. Ms. Levitt serves on the ABA's Law Practice Management Executive Council and the section's Publishing Board.
Mark Rosch, Vice-President of Internet for Lawyers and ABA author, is the developer and manager of Internet for Lawyers website and online education services. He serves as the editor of IFL's newsletter, The Internet Legal Research Update. Mr. Rosch authors numerous articles about computer technology in the law office for Law Technology News, Los Angeles Lawyer, Law Practice, FindLaw.com, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal, among other publications. Mr. Rosch serves on the ABA's Law Practice Management Education Board. He is a graduate of Tulane University.
Together, Levitt & Rosch are the authors of The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet (3rd Ed.) - published by the American Bar Association, and have taught hundreds of in-person MCLE programs for Bar associations, law firms, corporations, and other professional organizations.
Video Replays: June 4, 2010
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Location Information
CLECI Large Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $329.00 |
| CBA | $269.00 |
| SO/SM | $249.00 |
| New Lawyer | $229.00 |
| CBA | $229.00 |
- General Credits: 7.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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