http://www.legalresearchrescue.com Australian legal research tips and tricks Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some of the blog posts I've found interesting lately... [recreading] http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=256 LRR is back - with its own domain! Sorry for going AWOL from the blogosphere for the last couple of months - I won't bore you with the details but I will say "I'm back!" and have plenty of new articles up my sleeve. Actually, they're in my Drafts folder, but ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=252 Redundancies are up, billable hours are down and long boozy lunches are fewer and further between - it seems that lawyers are continuing to feel the pinch of the GFC (if you want examples of the effects on the legal profession and a little juicy Aussie law firm gossip thrown ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=237 A huge thank you to Tom Mighell and Dennis Kennedy of the Inter Alia blog for featuring Legal Research Rescue as "Blawg of the Day" on 30 April 2009. These guys find tonnes of great legal blogs and collate them all in one place - which makes it so much ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=236 There doesn't seem to be any doubt that in some way or another, the global financial crisis has affected law firms in the same way it has affected many other businesses - work might be a little quieter, jobs a little less secure and clients a little harder to attract ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=61 I love AustLII (yes, that is the nerdiest sentence you'll read this year). It is an invaluable depository of free Australian legal material which has saved many a time-poor law student from being forced to navigate some of the busier databases out there. But I didn't always love it. In fact, ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=63 Thanks a million to Chris McLean, founder of the Australasian Legal Technology  site for blogging about LRR here! Chris mentioned that he found the LRR Legal Research Library on Google Books of particular interest - see my original blog article on the topic here - which is really encouraging! I'd better ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=189 One of the most frustrating things to encounter in your legal research is a reference to a case with either a) no link; or b) a link that doesn't work. It's something that plagued me for years and continues to plague many of the lawyers I work with. But instead of cursing ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=235 One of the most frustrating things to encounter in your legal research is a reference to a case with either a) no link; or b) a link that doesn't work. It's something that plagued me for years and continues to plague many of the lawyers I work with. But instead of cursing ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=3 I'm so excited and honoured that LRR has rated a mention on Sean Hocking's Practice Source blog! LRR's 5 minutes of fame on Practice Source / House of Butter. Legal Research Rescue and Linda Moore's new blog KM Librarian were both featured as useful Australian (yay!) legal research/knowledge management blogs. Another great Australian ... http://www.legalresearchrescue.com/?p=151