By Stephanie Meharg, CP
A typical case research assignment begins for me something
like this: Stephanie, please find for me everything you can on this company, or
industry, or potential expert, or lawyer, or judge. I think they might be somewhere out west,
maybe Arizona. Now you know what I know.
Go!
So where is a busy paralegal to turn when faced with this
assignment? Most companies have a
website these days, most experts are affiliated with a university, there’s www.martindale.com for attorneys, Google,
Wikipedia, Bing, and EVERYONE has a Facebook account. Easy right?
Not always. People, need I remind
you that this is the information
age. There is a TON of stuff out
there. Finding what is relevant and
useful in a vast sea of “everyone’s got
an opinion and a computer” is pretty daunting.
You can easily find yourself running in circles. So where do you start?
