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Navigating the Digital Legal Landscape: A Guide for the Google Generation

Explore the impact of emerging technologies on legal research, the rise of Web 2.0, and the changing role of librarians in the digital age. Learn about online resources, the Community Patent Review Project, and strategies for effective legal research.

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Navigating the Digital Legal Landscape: A Guide for the Google Generation

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  1. Legal Research & theGoogle Generation SLA - Emerging Technologies BreakfastJune 5, 2007 Thomas B. Fleming, tbf@jmbm.com Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP

  2. New Avenues of Communication • Cellphones – txt msg (t9), Web, camera etc • Blogs, wikis, YouTube ($1.3 B), IM • Wireless – 37% of Internet usage • Internet usage by age • 18-29 – 83% • 30-49 – 82% • 50-64 – 70%

  3. Web 2.0 (Social Interaction) Impact • No exact definition but “participatory Web” • Blogs, wikis, social networking, podcasts… • Who interacts instead of how you interact • Library 2.0 – LLRX posting • Linkedin.com – new rolodex • Lunch 2.0

  4. Web – Technorati 4/07 • 70 M blogs & 1.4 blogs created every sec • 22 Blogs in the 100 MSM • Languages - Japanese 37%, English 33%, Chinese 8% & Italian 3% • 230 M posts with tags or categories

  5. Tagging the Web • Process of creating labels for online content • Bottom up classification not bottom down • 63% of taggers under the age of 50 • 35% of 2/07 posts used tags • 28% of Internet users tagged content • Revolutionizing the way we classify info

  6. Age Groups • Mature – 82-62 - Books • Baby Boomers – 61-43 - Online & books • Generation X – 42-26 & Y 25- • Information is instant, free & correct • Y always had computers • Expect instant gratification

  7. Legal Research – X & Y • Use resources beyond the books • Community Patent Review Project – NYU • Law appears as standing reserve not concepts • Legal research universe is not finite but the infinite is unorganized • Facts & keyword not legal concepts

  8. Librarian’s Role - Paul Callister • “Library as Portal to the World” • “Library as Social Knowledge Network” • “Library as Transforming User Behavior & Character” • “Library as Transformative & Communal Place”

  9. Points to Remember • Digitally forgotten–What is not on the Web • Teach legal research – integrated that is • Economics of legal research • billable hours v online costs • Internet footprint

  10. Bibliography • Bridging the Generation Gap Over Legal Research, 28 National Law Journal #40, 6/12/06 • Discovering the Latest in Web 2.0 Developments by Connie Crosby, http://www.llrx.com/node/1830/print • Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder by David Weinberger, http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ • Forty-Two: The Hitchhikers Guide to Legal Research to the Google Generation by Ian Gallagher, 39 Akron Law Review 151, 2006

  11. Bibliography (continued) • 99 Law Library Journal, #2, http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v99n02.asp • Legal Research & the Threat of the Available, 94 Illinois Bar Journal 618. November 2006 • LLRX.com, http://www.llrx.com • The New World Versus the Old World of Legal Research by Patrick Spangler, 20 Chicago Bar Association Record 48, April 2006

  12. Bibliography (continued) • Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/ • Teaching Legal Blog, http://tlr07.classcaster.org • The Virtual Chase, http://www.thevirtualchase.com

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