The way we use the internet today is leagues away from how it was being used even five years ago. In order to keep the pace, you need streamlined research skills that will make the internet an asset rather than a liability for your firm. How do your skills stack up? Do you know the best, most efficient ways to get what you need? Order today to find out how to harness the internet as an excellent resource.

1. Search Tips
2. State Resources
3. Federal Resources
4. Free Legal Portals
5. Finding Legal Practice Tools
6. Public Records And Publicly Available Information
7. Locating Persons and Finding Background Information
8. Locating Companies for Due Diligence and Background Information
9. Other Use of the Internet
10. Discover the Invisible Web
11. Miscellaneous

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1. SEARCH TIPS
   9:00 - 9:15, Debora A. Person
   1. The Internet and Its Search Tools: Review and Functionality
   2. General Search Tips
2. STATE RESOURCES
   9:15 - 9:45, Debora A. Person
   1. Statutes, Bills, and Legislative Materials
   2. Regulations and Agencies
   3. Supreme Court Opinions
   4. Casemaker
   5. Municipal Codes
   6. Uniform State Laws
3. FEDERAL RESOURCES
   9:45 - 10:15, Debora A. Person
   1. Statutes, Bills, and Legislative Materials
   2. Agency Materials
   3. Court Opinions
   4. Finding Other Government Materials
   5. Tribal Legal Resources
4. FREE LEGAL PORTALS
   10:30 - 11:15, Debora A. Person
   1. FindLaw
   2. Cornell, Legal Information Institute
   3. WashLaw
   4. Government Pages
   5. International and Foreign Law
5. FINDING LEGAL PRACTICE TOOLS
   11:15 - 12:00, Debora A. Person
   1. Sample Briefs
   2. Model Jury Instructions
   3. Court Rules
   4. Jury Verdicts and Settlements
   5. Sample Forms and Contracts
6. PUBLIC RECORDS AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION
   1:00 - 1:30, Tawnya Plumb
   1. Accessing Public Records
   2. Professional Licenses
   3. Criminal Records
   4. Vital Statistics: Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Records
   5. Real and Personal Property Records
   6. Hard to Find Public Records
7. LOCATING PERSONS AND FINDING BACKGROUND INFORMATION
   1:30 - 2:15, Tawnya Plumb
   1. Locating Phone Numbers, Addresses and Email Addresses
   2. Finding Lists of Missing Persons
   3. Social Security Numbers
   4. Bankruptcies
   5. Neighbors, Relatives and Associates
   6. Mailing List Postings, Blogs, Etc.
   7. Attorneys, Judges and Experts
   8. Privacy Issues
8. LOCATING COMPANIES FOR DUE DILIGENCE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
   2:30 - 3:00, Tawnya Plumb
   1. Company Web Sites
   2. Directories for Private, Public and Foreign Companies
   3. Stock Quotes - Current and Historical
   4. SEC Filings
   5. State Corporate Records/Registered Agents and Fictitious Business Names
   6. News and Information About Companies, Products and Executives
   7. Information From Government Agencies Regulating Companies
9. OTHER USES OF THE INTERNET
   3:00 - 3:30, Tawnya Plumb
   1. Secondary Source Availability
   2. Accessing Library Databases
   3. Current Awareness Tools
   4. Blogs, RSS Feeds, and Podcasts
   5. Managing Bookmarks
10. DISCOVER THE INVISIBLE WEB
    3:30 - 4:00, Tawnya Plumb
    1. What is the Invisible Web
    2. Learn to Find "Invisible Documents"
    3. Where Do Old Web Pages? - Learn to Locate Them
11. MISCELLANEOUS
    4:00 - 4:30, Tawnya Plumb
    1. Adding the Google Toolbar to Your Browser
    2. Using the PDF Toolbar Effectively
    3. Learn Browser Tricks - Using the "Find" Function to Scan the Web
    4. Legal Apps

DEBORA A. PERSON is an assistant law librarian and an administrative law librarian at the George William Hopper Law Library, University of Wyoming College of Law. She supervises the library's technical and public services staff, trains and supervises the reference student assistants and manages the library's reference office. Ms. Person also teaches the first year legal research class for incoming law students. She received her MLIS degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Arizona State University. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and is the vice president and president-elect of WestPac, the regional chapter of AALL and has served on a number of its committees. Ms. Person is also a member of the UW Outreach Committee and College of Law representative.

TAWNYA PLUMB is an electronic services librarian at the George William Hopper Law Library, University of Wyoming College of Law. She is responsible for the implementation of all electronic information sources and monitors the library web page, online catalog and library system. Ms. Plumb also teaches the first year legal research class for incoming law students. She earned her B.A. degree from the University of Wyoming and her MLIS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Plumb is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (Education Committee) and of WestPac (Public Relations Committee), the regional chapter of AALL.

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