Keeping Up To Date
Leah Sandwell-Weiss
Updating Research
- Lexis: Alerts & Shepard’s Alerts
- Westlaw: WestClip & KeyCite Alert
Legal News
Mailing Lists, Web Sites, RSS Feeds
FindLaw:
- Legal News website: http://news.findlaw.com/
- Newsletter sign-up page: http://newsletters.findlaw.com
Law.Com:
- Newswire: www.law.com/newswire/
- Newswire sign-up page: http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw
- Newswire RSS feed: www.law.com/rss/rss_newswire.xml
Jurist:
- Paper Chase: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/
ABA Journal:
- Law News Now: www.abajournal.com/
- Stay Connected: www.abajournal.com/stay_connected/
Congressional Quarterly:
- Sign-up page: http://corporate.cq.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=237
Justia:
- Justia Opinion Summaries: http://law.justia.com/subscriptions
- Justia - Federal District Court Filings & Dockets (Beta): http://dockets.justia.com/
- Justia - Regulation Tracker: http://regulations.justia.com/
Arizona:
- Arizona Supreme Court Opinions sign-up page: www.azcourts.gov/clerkofcourt/AutoNotificationSignup.aspx
- Elder Law: www.elder-law.com/issues.html
- eLegal - Automatically get when you join the Arizona State Bar
- Arizona Daily Star RSS feeds: http://azstarnet.com/rss
Legal Research:
- LLRX sign-up page: www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm
Sunlight Foundation
- Scout (beta): http://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/ - provides legislative alerts & information.
Blogs & Wikis
General Legal & Foreign Law Wikis
- Wex: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/
- JurisPedia: http://en.jurispedia.org/ or www.wikilaw.org/
Legal News
- How Appealing: http://howappealing.law.com/
US Supreme Court
- SCOTUSBlog: www.scotusblog.com/
Arizona
- AZ Attorney: Writing on Law Practice in the Desert Southwest: http://azatty.wordpress.com/
Law Professors
- Law Profesor Blogs: www.lawprofessorblogs.com/
- Balkinization: http://balkin.blogspot.com/
- Concurring Opinions: www.concurringopinions.com/
- Criminal Law and Policy News and Events for the University of Arizona Community: http://uacj.typepad.com/university_of_arizona_cri/
- Instapundit: www.instapundit.com/
- Prawfsblawg: http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/
- The Volokh Conspiracy: http://volokh.com/
Law Librarians & Legal Researchers
- beSpacific: www.bespacific.com/
- LLRX: www.llrx.com/
- Law Librarian Blog: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/
- Law Library Blogs: http://aallcssis.pbworks.com/Law-Library-Blogs
Attorneys
- iPhone J.D.: www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/
- iPad Notebook: http://ipadnotebook.wordpress.com/
- Justia BlawgSearch: http://blawgsearch.justia.com/
- Robert Ambrogi's LawSites: www.legaline.com/lawsites.html
News/Politics
- NPR Blogs: www.npr.org/blogs/
- NPR News Feeds: www.npr.org/rss/
- Stateline.org - Arizona: www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines?states=328009
- ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: www.acsblog.org/
- FedSoc Blog: The blog of The Federalist Society: www.fedsocblog.com/
RSS & Aggregators
RSS:
Many definitions, but stands for either Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. It's a method of coding information that allows readers to get notification of new content on a site without having to visit the site itself. Readers use other programs, called aggregators or feedreaders or webreaders, to read the information.
Articles
- Cindy Chick,
- RSS Tutorial: What IS RSS?: www.lawlibtech.com/2004/03/rss-tutorial-what-is-rss.html;
- RSS Tutorial Part II: Getting Started with RSS Aggregators: www.lawlibtech.com/2004/04/rss-tutorial-part-ii-getting-started-with-rss-aggregators.html;
- RSS Tutorial Part III: Using Bloglines: www.lawlibtech.com/2004/04/rss-tutorial-part-iii-using-bloglines.html;
- RSS Tutorial Part IV: News, News & More News: www.lawlibtech.com/2004/05/rss-tutorial-part-iv-news-news-more-news.html
- Jason Eiseman, RSS Tutorials for Law Librarians: www.schwabe.com/library/rss_tutorials.htm;
- Tom Mighell & Dennis Kennedy, RSS Resources You Can Use: Automated Web Surfing for Lawyers, Law Practice Today (Nov. 2006): www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/slc11061.shtml;
- Diane Murley, Using Feeds to Serve Law Library Patrons (25 ALL-SIS Newsletter 12 (Spring 2006): www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/newsletter/25_2/RSSFeeds.htm;
- Bonnie Sucha, RSS: Making the Internet Subscribeable, 79 Wis. Law., Aug. 2006, at ___, available at www.wisbar.org/newspublications/wisconsinlawyer/pages/article.aspx?volume=8&issue=&articleid=1181
Aggregators
- Can be desktop or web-based.
- Google Reader is a free, web-based reader: www.google.com/reader/view/
- Going away July 1.
- Feedly is a newer free, web and app-based reader: feedly.com
- Read about it and RSS in a May 9, 2013, David Pogue column: www.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/technology/personaltech/three-ways-feedly-outdoes-the-vanishing-google-reader.html?nl=technology&emc=edit_ct_20130509
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Page Updated: 9 May 2013