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If you are a lawyer, law librarian or law student, who has been thinking about trying out cyberspace, but you're not yet convinced that the internet is more than a toy for people who have nothing better to do, this book will change your mind in a hurry. It tells you about the wealth of legal information which is available on line, most of it free. There are details on email "legal lists" which you can sign up to, in order to be in contact with others who might specialize in your area of interest. There are also many listings for web sites rich in material. The narrative is written in an informal and humourous style and the book can be digested in chunks, and kept on the shelf even after you are a more experienced surfer, as a reference tool. The focus is definitely on US legal information, but the rest of the world is mentioned

I'm the author of this book. At the time, it was the American Bar Association's fastest selling book and it became the foundation of very successful "Lawyers Guide to" series by the ABA Section of Law Practice Management. But in the 10 years that have passed since Lawyers Guide was published, the technologies have changed dramatically. Although the book covers important topics, like spam, netiquette for lawyers, electronic filing, and key factors in establishing a high-quality, respected online presence, it also covers technical topics that are woefully out of date: gopher, WAIS, anonymous ftp, etc. And the extensive lists of online resources (including the then-dominant Legal List by Erik Heels) are similarly out of date. Buy it for the history; buy it for the nostalgia; buy it just because there was a time in e-history when every law-related online resource actually *could* fit in the printed pages of a book appendix(!) Or buy it for the footnotes, or the discussion of strategic factors. But don't buy it expecting that the technology in it is current. It's a 10 year old book. - Hope this helps! - Burgess