High-tech need, no-tech courts: judges move slowly to the web
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Court decisions often appear on the Internet, but the difficulties encountered by Massachusetts Judge Hiller Zobel in publishing his decision in the Nanny murder case with this medium are instructive. The judge set up a special connection since his court had no Internet e-mail but since it experienced a power failure the day the decision was handed down, the print version appeared before the electronic one did. Zobel had also sent e-mail copies of the decision privately and if news organizations had received these first, it would have created problems.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Lawyers serve clients on the 'Net with quizzes, customized tools
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Attorneys have begun to use the Internet as a way of providing clients with useful legal information and finding new clients. Michael P. Curreri's TrialNet is a secured litigation management network which has become a successful adjunct to his regular practice. Carl Shusterman's immigration law Web site provides forms as well as an informative quiz. Quizzes are also popular on several other intranet and Internet sites.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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