LLRXBuzz - February 5, 2001
By Tara Calishain, Published on February 5, 2001
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ScanSoft
Announces Online, E-fileable Forms
ScanSoft, Inc., has announced OmniForm,
online legal forms in Web-fillable format, available on the American
LegalNet Web site at uscourtforms.com. Currently, federal and state court
forms in Word, .pdf and XFML format are available for designing, editing,
and completing online. In the future, OminForm XFML technology will be
used to allow the forms to be e-filed directly to the appropriate court.
The licensing fee for the OnmiForm is $149.99 You can get more the press
release for this site at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010129/ma_scansof.html
or go straight to the site at http://www.scansoft.com/.
New
Features From Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell has announced
new features and searching capabilities on its Web site at http://martindale.com/.
The Lawyer Locator is now accessible from the home page. It allows a
search for lawyer by a variety of variables, including areas of practice,
state, country, language spoken, law school, and firm size. There are a
variety of tabs, allowing for different types of searches (there's a
search for lawyers affiliated with government agencies, for example.) When
searching, you can use a variety of the variables or use a single one (and
if you're curious, searching for lawyers who speak Sanskrit works on this
search engine.)
Additional features include the CLE Online, for searching continuing education courses, and a legal digest, entitled LegalBiz Online, will be launching February 15. For additional information, be sure to check out the Professional Resources section, which includes a meeting and conference calendar, a listing of law schools, and a listing of professional associations for legal professionals.
Bankruptcy.com Launches "Bankruptcy
Week"
BankruptcyData.com
has launched a weekly newsletter on bankruptcy filings with contact
information, industry trends and major bankruptcy cases. "Bankruptcy
Week" will feature statistical looks at trends and current interest
topics. A first issue sample is downloadable from http://www.bankruptcydata.com/Bankruptcy_Week.htm.
Subscribing will cost $50 a month or $500 a year, and includes
"silver membership" to the premium services of
BankruptcyData.com.
Auto
Demographics Service Debuts at NADA
Comparison studies will be offered when two areas are entered into the database. Maps and reports in various formats deliver a "visual picture of the data." Cost for the service can be as high as $2,495 a year for reporting and demographic mapping capabilities, or as low as a monthly rate. There's also a free demo available, but it requires a rather extensive
registration.Free
Access to Back Issues of the Texas Register
In
an agreement between the Texas Secretary of State- Texas Register office
and the university of North Texas, back issues of the Texas Register going
to September 1991 are now available at http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/texasregister/
.
The main page of the site has several pop-up windows that active as you move your mouse. You can browse sites by year (some years are text only, some years have text, HTML, and PDF, and the last couple of years are HTML and PDF only.) You can also search by keyword (I recommend the search tips page for more information.)
There's plenty of information here, but it might take you some time to find it, as there's a lot. A quick option to search only within a certain year would be helpful. I know you can narrow it somewhat by putting the preferred year in your query, but it doesn't work completely. (Do a search for +1991 +dairy. The fifth result is from 1999.)
Forbes Starts
A People Tracker
In what looks like kinda like Celebrity
Sleuth, Forbes has started People Tracker at http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/.
The site claims to track over 120,000 executives and rich and famous
people. Once you register (free and pretty non-intrusive; it asks for a
name, password, title, and zip code) you can start searching.
In my ongoing quest for unusual search examples, I looked up James Linford, CEO of Gardenburger. And hey, he was there. Clicking on his name provided his name, title, and city and state of his company -- not much other information there. There were links to other Gardenburger executives, though, making this a good jumping-off point if you were planning to do research on a single company. (You can do a people search on a stock symbol, too, making it very easy to search for company officers.) The CEO of General Electric had lots of information, with cross-references using links on the left side of the page (for example, you could find other conglomerate executives who are 64 years old, etc.)
This is certainly a different mix of people than you'll find over at Celebrity Sleuth, and presented in a less "fluffy" manner. If you like that you'll probably want to try this. Worth a look.
Canadian
Magazine Search Engine Launched
A Canadian magazine search engine was
recently launched at http://www.magomania.com/english/.
According to the press release, the site contains information about over
300 Canadian magazines, as well as an archive of freely-available
articles. Articles can be keyword searched, and the search can be done on
the entire database or limited to one of several categories.
Results appear in a (slightly annoying) pop-up window. Unfortunately, the results I viewed were not dated -- there was no way to determine when they'd been published merely from the article page. This is an odd and unfortunate oversight. In addition, a few of the articles I read were not formatted properly. This is a good idea, and there's plenty of good content in place here. Hopefully as this site grows some of the wrinkles will get ironed out.
Sabrina I. Pacifici
From beSpacific.com 
beSpacific
- GPOS Federal Digital System Reaches 500 Million Retrievals
- World Report on Child Labour
- Pew - Parents, Children, Libraries, and Reading
- Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues
- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
- Interview: Telling the Life Story of Ginkgo, the Oldest Tree on Earth
- New GAO Reports - Capitol Preservation Fund, CMS, Medicaid
- Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies
- CRS - Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights
- Pew - A Demographic Portrait of Mexican-Origin Hispanics in the United States