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The Google-Powered Law Office: Search Tricks, Cloud Apps, and Research Tips
Program Highlights:
Come join Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, internationally recognized Internet trainers and authors of five American Bar Association books, who will show you how super-charging your Google search strategies will assist you in your discovery and trial preparation needs, in addition to locating missing persons and successfully completing transactions.
What You Will Learn:
- How to master Google's advanced search capabilities
- How to use Google cloud apps and tools to improve productivity, collaboration, and communication with clients and colleagues:
- Google Docs
- Google Calendars
- Google Spreadsheets
- Google Presentations
- Google Forms
- Google Voice
- Google Translation
Agenda:
The Google-Powered Law Office: Search Tricks, Cloud Apps, and Research Tips
9:00 am - 12:15 pm Morning Session (Includes 15 Minute Break)
Mastering Google's Search Capabilities for Discovery, Trial Preparation, and to Successfully Complete Transactions
- Do lawyers have a duty to Google?
- Learn how to create more effective searches
- Narrow and filter search results
- Unlock the power of Google's advanced search strategies to search faster and more effectively
- Google for background/investigative information about people and companies
- Locate addresses, phone, fax, and cell numbers for service of process, etc.
- Find news from current sources
- Keep on top of your research using free alerts
- Find images and learn about reverse image searching
- Reveal hidden search features, secrets, and shortcuts
- Locate information from the “invisible” Web
- Glean personal information from Google's search engine, Google Blog searches, and Google Groups searches
- Obtain free articles and court opinions from Google Scholar
- Track down altered or deleted Web pages
- Authenticate altered or deleted Web pages
- Communicate with clients and co-counsel via Google+
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm - 4:30 pm Afternoon Session (Includes 15 Minute Break)
Mastering Free Google Office “Cloud” Apps and Other Technology Tools
Free Google Technology Tools
- Google Voice to increase your availability by telephone
- Google Translate to speed up reviewing foreign language documents or Web sites
Free Google Cloud Apps
- “The Cloud” explained
- Cloud security, client confidentiality, and reliability issues
- Improve productivity, collaboration, and communication with clients and colleagues by using:
- Google Gmail - supercharge Gmail with experimental features, customized settings, and third-party plug-ins
- Share documents and inform clients and colleagues about deadlines, meetings, depositions, etc. by using:
- Google Docs
- Google Calendars
- Google Spreadsheets
- Google Presentations
- Google Forms
About the Faculty/Authors:
Carole A. Levitt, JD, MLS, President of Internet For Lawyers and an American Bar Association author, has over 20 years of combined experience in the legal field as a Californian 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 of 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 American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Executive Council and the section's Publishing Board.
Mark E. Rosch, Vice President of Internet for Lawyers and an American Bar Association author, is the developer and manager of Internet for Lawyers' website and online education services. He serves at the editor of Internet for Lawyer'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 served on the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Education Board. He is a graduate of Tulane University.
Together, Levitt & Rosch are the authors of five books 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.
Related Books by the Faculty:
Find Info Like a Pro Volume 1: Mining the Internet's Publicly Available Resources for Investigative Research (ABA, 2010)
Find Info like a Pro, Volume 2: Mining the Internet's Public Records for Investigative Research (ABA, 2011)
For more information on these books, visit the CBA-CLE bookstore online at www.cobar.org/cle/pubs.cfm and select the Law Practice Management category.
Video Replays: July 26, 2012
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- Member Price $289.00 USD
- General Credits 7.00
- Ethics Credits
- EDI Credits