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Electronic Filing Participation Encouraged in Some New York County IAS Parts

Please note that a number of the IAS Parts in New York County Supreme Court are encouraging counsel to participate in the Court’s Electronic Filing System. Justices Richter, Lehner, Smith, James, Kornreich and Sklar have joined the Justices of the Commercial Part in encouraging electronic filing. Details of the program can be found at the Court’s web site at https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/mainframe.html. Please note that the Court is also conducting "how-to" trianing classes for how to participate in the program. You can call the Court at 646-386-3033 to arrange a training class.

Discovery Rules for all 50 states are on the Web in one location . . . .

. . . courtesy of Atkinson-Baker Court Reporters. Click here for the link.

A new way to research books . . . . A9.com

Let's say at trial, a physician is relying on a particular treatise. Prior to (or at) trial, run the book title and/or the name of the author through the www.a9.com search engine and find not only other books by the author but also related book and web sites about either the book or the author.

An excellent online electronic discovery resource . . . discoveryresources.org

Courtesy of Tom Mighell's Inter Alia comes his 4/2/04 blawg of the day -- discoveryresources.org -- a site run by Dennis Kennedy and George Socha. Discoveryresources aims to be a resource specifically on electronic discovery.

Need to follow the news on a topic or locality? Try Google for topics and Topix for localities.

To search news by topic, go to news.google.com and enter a search string. Click the "News Alert" option and Google will even e-mail you news items on your topic as they arise. To follow the news in a particular locality, try www.topix.net. At Topix, you can also use a search string or simply enter a zip code to get the leading stories of the day from that geographical area.

The Extreme Searcher's Web Page . . .

The Extreme Searcher's Internet Handbook is a search guide written by Randolph Hock. His web site advertising the handbook also provides free links to the research and discovery sources covered in the book.

Issue: On all of my NYC cases involving building defects, how can I search for building violations online?

Solution: Go to the search page of the NYC Department of Buildings. At the Building Information Search page, start your search with the address of the building in question. The results page will tell you whether there are any complaints as well as the status of resolved and active violations.

. . . The 10 Best Sites of the Decade . . .

. . . is a article featuring just that, albeit the top 10 legal sites on the Web. Written by Robert J. Ambrogi, and featured in Law Technology News, it should be helpful to lawyers and non-lawyers alike.

. . . finding the PDR online . . .

The Physician's Desk Reference (or PDR) can be found online at www.pdr.net. It requires registration. Also, the drug search engine at www.drugs.com is powered by Micromedex, a division of Thompson Health Care which publishes the PDR. This site also requires registration.

. . . why Google? . . .

If you thought Google was just a text search engine, think again. Did you know you can use it as a:
* calculator
* map locator
* FedEx tracker
* dictionary, or to find
* airport travel conditions