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Authors: Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: August 2010
Page Count: 544
Trim Size: 7 x 10-inch format
Format: Softcover
In the decade since its launch, Google has become synonymous with searching on the Internet. This book unleashes the full power of Google as a search engine and, as a provider of free and low-cost tools that can help any attorney compete with large firms and their large research and technology budgets.
Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools introduces novice Internet searchers to the diverse collection of information locatable through Google. The book discusses the importance of including effective Google searching as part of a lawyer's due diligence, and cites case law that mandates that lawyers should use Google and other resources available on the Internet, where applicable. For intermediate and advanced users, the book unlocks the power of various advanced search strategies and hidden search features they might not be aware of.
Designed to help lawyers learn how they can put all of Google's power to work in their practices, Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools will also unlock access to various free Google services. From the lesser-known Google Voice, Google Wave, and Google Translate to the better-known office applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these services can make novice, intermediate, and advanced users alike, more productive attorneys.
Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools will help you:
Learn the ins and outs of Google search shortcuts to save time and money
Use Google's advanced features for research to uncover valuable information on the Internet that might have otherwise been missed
Take advantage of Google's free office applications to become more efficient in your practice and save money
Utilize the various Google tools and databases quickly and efficiently to access free case law; find newspaper and magazine articles; set up Alerts; and locate information about expert witnesses, the opposition, jurors, existing and potential clients, missing witnesses, and more
Understand Google Analytics to track statistics for your web site
Search for Federal Government-related resources using Google's Uncle Sam Search
Advertise and market your firm using Google Advertising Services
and much more!
This practical guide's step-by-step descriptions, Search Tips, Usage Tips, and hundreds of screenshots detail the "how" of using all of Google's features. Additionally, the author's Practice Tips, Ethics Alerts, and various "war stories" from legal professionals, detail the "why."
Google for Lawyers' tips, tactics, strategies and free office applications will make it one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal to become a Google power user - locating information from the Internet more effectively and practicing more efficiently and cost effectively.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Chapter 1 Why Use the Internet to Locate Information? 1
Chapter 2 Introduction to Google 9
Chapter 3 Basic (And not so Basic) Google Search Strategies: All You Need to Know to Become a Good Internet Researcher
Chapter 4 Advanced Google Search Strategies: All You Need to Know to Become a Great Internet Researcher
Chapter 5 You've Got Your Search Results, Now What? Understanding and Manipulating the Displayed search Results
Chapter 6 Google News
Chapter 7 Google Groups: Retrieving Information from Over One Billion Publicly Archived E-mail Messages
Chapter 8 Google Image Search: Locating Photos of Individuals, Products, and More
Chapter 9 Google Blog Search
Chapter 10 Google Finance: Monitor Current Financial News on Public Companies and Market Trends for Due Diligence and a Competitive Intelligence Advantage
Chapter 11 Google Glossary
Chapter 12 Google Translate
Chapter 13 Google Books: Quickly Locate Useful Books, Magazines, and Legal Treatises, Statutes, Opinions, and Legislative Histories
Chapter 14 Google Maps
Chapter 15 Location-Based Google Search via Your Non-Web-Enabled Telephone (GOOG-411)
Chapter 16 Free Knowledge-Management Tools from Google: Desktop Search
Chapter 17 Google Scholar: Locate Informationfrom Academic Sources and RetrieveFree Case Law
Chapter 18 Google Apps: Free Collaboration Tools to Help Solos and Small Firms Compete with Big-Firm Technology Budgets
Chapter 19 Google Voice
Chapter 20 Google Search Shortcuts
Chapter 21 Google SMS (Short Message Service):Retrieve Information via Text Messaging 347
Chapter 22 Google Earth-Now You Can Fly Under the Surface of Oceans 349
Chapter 23 Google's Uncle Sam Search: A Specialized Search for Federal Government-Related Resources
Chapter 24 Google Analytics: Free Traffic Statistics for Your Web Site (You Do Have a Web Site, Don't You?)
Chapter 25 Advertising Services from Google
Chapter 26 Google's Web Browser: Chrome
Chapter 27 Google Knol: Experts Sharing Their Knowledge,One Unit at a Time 401
Appendices
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- General Credits
- Ethics Credits
- EDI Credits