Interesting article published in the North Carolina Business Litigation Reporter on Monday entitled….
Why Firefox Is The Best Internet Browser For Lawyers
Mack Sperling writes:
If you are litigating business cases, or any kind of cases where you might be doing legal research, Firefox is the best internet browser and you should dump Internet Explorer and change to Firefox. Right now.
Why should you do that, especially if it puts you in the minority of internet users? There are probably a lot of reasons, but this post is about only two of them. They are both "add-ons" for Firefox. Add-ons let you customize Firefox.
Jureeka ( http://www.jureeka.net/Jureeka/Home.aspx) automatically adds a hyperlnk to a court decision or a statutory reference on a web page if it can find it. Jureeka does that by looking to the open law sources like PreCYdent, which is one of a number of ventures putting case law and statutory law in the public domain. Another one is the Public Library of Law, which calls itself "the world’s largest free law library," and another is altlaw.com. These sites have federal decisions and a lot of state court decisions that you would ordinarily have to go to Westlaw or LEXIS to find.
Here’s an example of why this is a useful thing: last month, I wrote a post about a decision from the Middle District of North Carolina which found jurisdiction over a defendant because of its use of metatags on its website. In the post, I referenced a decision to the contrary from the Second Circuit. If you were looking at that post in Firefox, with the Jureeka add-on, you would have seen the Second Circuit case with a hyperlink, looking like this:
Read the full article at http://www.ncbusinesslitigationreport.com/2009/01/articles/why-firefox-is-the-best-internet-browser-for-lawyers/
