Sunday, January 18, 2009

GOOGLE RANKS LRBP #1

Legal Research Best Practices has only been around for a week and it is already ranked #1 in Google! Why? Because in the United States there is no such thing as legal research best practices. They do not exist.

Don't tell this to law librarians. Don't tell the West reps creeping around college campuses or the Poobahs. Don't tell any of these glassy-eyed gatekeepers. Good luck convincing anyone that browsing headnotes, key numbers and annotations is anything but the Gold Standard. Although some may be persuadable.

You know who I am? OK. I'm Mark. But, for your purposes I'm Bill James. The Bill James of legal research. The guy who explodes myths and shows you the massive amounts of important law you are missing as a result of your misplaced reliance on manmade indexes.

More to come.