Lawyers Right Hand » Research http://www.lawyersrighthand.com Tutorials, tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Vet an Expert http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-to-vet-an-expert.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/how-to-vet-an-expert.htm#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:12:12 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=273

The Virtual Chase offers this Robert Ambrogi article on vetting your expert. The best part is, many of the sources Ambrogi recommends are free, so legal secretaries can easily do this research for their

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Speaking of Google, check out productivity blog Dumb Little Man for 20 tips for more efficient Google searches. The list includes a few that I already knew about, but several were new

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The latest new legal Web site is one I’m sure most lawyers will spurn as being beneath them. But since my blog isn’t for lawyers, I thought I’d mention the new site anyway. Readable

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/laws-and-legislation-in-plain-english.htm/feed 0 Google Services and all things Google http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/google-services-and-all-things-google.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/google-services-and-all-things-google.htm#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:23:57 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=271 Lifehacker recently posted a link to this nifty 2-page, PDF cheat sheet on all things Google. In addition to links to all of Google’s services and sample Google calculator commands, there’s a list of the important people at…

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A new Law.com article discusses some of Google’s advanced search features, as well as how to assess the reliability of a Web site. Learn how to fine-tune your searches using the

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Usually, when you perform a Google search, you’re looking for specific information, and you don’t want to see Web pages that contain duplicate content. Google realizes this, so, by default, it filters out repetitive results.

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A fantastic people search engine Wink is the most powerful and accurate free site for locating and learning about people that I’ve seen to date. I searched for myself and found just about everything

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