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