Albuquerque, NM Live MCLE Investigative Research & Technology Tips Seminar

Albuquerque, NM Live MCLE Investigative Research & Technology Tips Seminar

THE CYBERSLEUTH’S GUIDE TO THE INTERNET:
Super Search Engine Strategies, Investigative Research, Social Networking, and Tech Tips

Wednesday, December 9
New Mexico State Bar Center
Albuquerque, NM

8:30 AM - 6:45 PM

(This program is also available as a live MCLE webcast)

How is the Internet and technology changing the way legal professionals need to research and run their practice to competently represent their clients?

Can failing to “google” as part of the due diligence process keep you from winning a case? What are the best research strategies and Web sites that will assist an attorney or paralegal in meeting their investigative research obligations?

More and more lawyers are using social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin) for discovery, trial prep, background checks, and locating missing persons. Don’t be left behind in exploiting this gold mine of information.

Come join internationally recognized Internet trainers and authors Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch as they show you how to be your own cyber-researcher and cyber-detective. Learn to unearth information FREE (or at low cost!) on the Net and receive a copy of their newly revised book, “The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet,” 10th edition, 2009 – a $59.95 VALUE!

Super Search Engine Strategies: Mastering Google and Beyond for Investigative Research
• Is there a “duty to Google?”
• Develop super search engine strategies
• Key into Google’s “Advanced Search” menu
• Locate information from the “invisible” web
• Glean private or personal information from Google Groups
• Meta-search sites and topical search engines

Learn to Search Like a Private Investigator: Using Free Public Records and Publicly Available Information on the Web
• Mine the web for missing people:
• Develop internet investigative search strategies
• Find death records, birthdays, and SSNs
• Discover people search sites
• Online phone directories
• Extract background information from:
• Dockets
• Bankruptcies
• Blogs
• Full-text articles and press releases from expensive databases – for free
• SEC filings
• Sex Offender databases
• Expert witness sites

12:00 p.m. Lunch (provided at the State Bar Center)

Learn Why Social Network Sites Are Becoming the Latest & Greatest Investigative Tool
• Uncover information to attack a witness’ credibility
• Seek out the smoking gun
• Obtain useful background information about current and potential clients, potential hires, other lawyers and judges, and the opposition

Tech Tips: Free and Low Cost
• Unearth deleted web pages to use against the opposition
• Discover technology tools to search “smarter, not harder”
• Outlook tips
• Find missing files with free desktop search
• Adobe Acrobat – collaborate, create fill-in forms, true redaction, Bates numbering
• E-fax
• Learn to transfer large files for free
• How (and why) to send registered e-mail
• Meta-data: what is it and how to scrub it
• And more…

4:30 p.m. Adjourn and Senior Lawyers Division Reception (State Bar Lobby)

4:45 p.m. Free private sessions for Senior Lawyers Division members with featured speakers (non-credit, limited to the first 16 Senior Lawyers Division members who respond; other attendees welcome if slots are still available by p.m. on date of seminar)

6:45 p.m. Private sessions end

Portland, Oregon (Tigard) Live MCLE Investigative Research Seminar

Portland, Oregon (Tigard) Live MCLE Investigative Research Seminar

The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet: Super Search Engine Strategies and Investigative Research Strategies for the Legal Professional

Thursday, December 3, 2009
(This program will also be offered as a live webcast on 12/3/09)
(See below for video replay dates in 2010)

Oregon State Bar Center
16037 S.W. Upper Boones Ferry Rd.
Tigard, Oregon

Do lawyers have a duty to Google? In a recent decision, the court was incredulous that a plaintiff failed to “google” the missing defendant as part of the due diligence process and upheld the defendant’s claim of insufficient services of process. Effective Internet searching may now need to become part of every lawyer’s due diligence. Learn the best research strategies (including advanced search features of Google and other search engines) to assist in meeting your research obligations.

Whether you’re a transactional lawyer looking for information on a company, a consumer attorney tracking down a defective product, a matrimonial attorney searching for a spouse’s assets, or a litigator looking for a missing witness, the Internet can be an indispensable resource.

Nationally recognized Internet trainers, Carole Levitt JD, MLS and Mark Rosch will show you how to find and use specific websites to unearth factual and investigative information for free or at low cost. Gain the tools and skills to search “smarter, not harder,” and learn to be your own cybersleuth!

AGENDA

Super Search Engine Strategies for the Legal Professional

Super Search Engine Strategies: Mastering Google and Beyond

* Identify and use the best search engines
* Sites’ secrets and shortcuts revealed
* Develop super search strategies
* Key into Google’s “advanced search” menu
* Pierce the “invisible” web


Lunch (On your own; brown bags are welcome)

Investigative Research Strategies for the Legal Professional

Search Like a Private Investigator

* Develop Internet investigative strategies
* Learn to extract background information from dockets
* Unearth bankruptcies
* Mine the web for missing people
* Glean personal information from blogs and Usenet posts
* Identify low-cost public record and investigative databases for addresses, phone numbers, aliases, and employers

Access Expensive Databases—for Free—to Uncover

* Factual and background information
* Full-text newspaper and magazine articles
* Press releases

Discover Quick and Easy Methods to Retrieve Free Public Records and “Publicly Available” Information

* Online telephone/address directories
* Birth and death records
* Social Security numbers
* Real property records
* Criminal records
* Expert witnesses
* SEC filings

Video replays planned for 2010

Astoria
Friday, April 2
Di Bartolomeo Law Office
1139 Exchange St.

Bend
Friday, March 26
Miller Nash LLP
1567 S.W. Chandler Ave.
Suite 204

Coos Bay
Friday, March 26
Daniel M. Hinrichs PC
590 Commercial Ave.

Eugene
Friday, April 2
Gaydos Churnside & Balthrop PC
440 E. Broadway, Suite 300

Grants Pass
Thursday, March 25
Josephine County Courthouse
Room 222
N.W. 6th and “C” Streets

Hood River
Friday, March 26
Wyers Haskell Davies PC
216 Columbia

Klamath Falls
Friday, March 26
Boivin Uerlings & DiIaconi PC
803 Main St., Suite 201

LaGrande
Friday, March 26
Mautz Baum & O’Hanlon LLP
1902 Fourth St.

Medford
Friday, April 2
Frohnmayer Deatherage
2592 E. Barnett Rd.

Newport
Friday, April 2
Macpherson Gintner & Diaz
423 North Coast Highway

Pendleton
Friday, April 2
Mautz Baum & O’Hanlon LLP
101 S.E. Byers Ave.

Redmond
Friday, April 2
Bryant Emerson & Fitch
888 W. Evergreen

Roseburg
Thursday, March 25
Douglas County Counsel’s Office
Law Library, Room 319
1036 S.E. Douglas

Salem
Friday, March 26
The Vandermay Law Firm
2085 Commercial Street NE

Tigard
Wednesday, April 7
Oregon State Bar Center
16037 S.W. Upper Boones Ferry Rd.

Vale
Friday, March 26
Butler & Looney PC
292 Main St. S.