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Dedication

Carole A. Levitt

Id like to dedicate this book to my husband, Mark Rosch. In 1999, when I first had the idea of presenting CLE seminars to lawyers on using the Internet to find free and low-budget websites for research, he was the one who encouraged me to launch Internet For Lawyers (IFL). Mark created our companys website by teaching himself HTML and staying up late at night for weeks on end. He also came up with the idea for IFLs online CLE seminars. Together, we have co-authored six ABA Law Practice Division books and thirteen editions of our seminar book, The Cybersleuths Guide to the Internet and given hundreds of CLE seminars all over the U.S. I couldnt have asked for a better husband, best friend, and work partner, all wrapped up into one person. Finally, I appreciate Mark taking on the lions share of IFLs work during the many months it took me to write this book.

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About the Authors

Carole A. Levitt is the founder and President of Internet For Lawyers ( www.netforlawyers.com ). She is a nationally recognized CLE seminar speaker and best-selling American Bar Association Law Practice Division (ABA LP) author. She is an expert on Internet investigative and legal research; social media research; social media ethics; Google search and Cloud Apps; and technology for lawyers. Carole has been presenting CLE seminars full-time since 1999 throughout the United States.

Carole has co-authored six other ABA LP books with her husband/co-speaker, Mark Rosch, including (1) Google Gmail and Calendar in One Hour for Lawyers (2013); (2) Find Info like a Pro, Volumes 1, 2, and (3) Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools (2010). She has also co-authored thirteen editions of T he Cybersleuths Guide to the Internet with Mark Rosch.

Previously, Carole was a California attorney, a law librarian in Chicago and Los Angeles, and a Legal Research and Writing Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. She graduated with distinction from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and was a member of the schools law review. Carole has a Masters in Library Science and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois.

Carole is an active member of the ABA Law Practice Division, serving on its Publications Advisory Board since 2003 and on its Executive Council from 2006 to 2011. Carole is past Chair of the California State Bars LPMT Executive Committee and in 2013 became the second recipient of LPMTs Lifetime Achievement Award. Recently, Carole was nominated as a Fellow to the College of Law Practice Management and was a recipient of the 2013 Fastcase Fifty award, recognizing 50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.

You can reach Carole at clevitt@netforlawyers.com.

Judy K. Davis is a law librarian and adjunct assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Prior to coming to USC, she worked at the University of San Diego Pardee Legal Research Center. Earlier in her career, she also practiced law before a wise person showed her that her true calling was to be a librarian. She currently teaches legal research to USC law students, works in the law librarys reference department, and gives lectures and training sessions on legal research and related topics. When not writing books about legal research or imparting knowledge to future attorneys, she likes to spend as much time as possible outdoors in beautiful Southern California.

Acknowledgments

Carole A. Levitt

First, I would like to thank my co-author, Judy Davis. It would have been a daunting task to write this book on my own, but with Judys help, this book was brought to fruition. Despite never having met in person, we were able to successfully collaborate on this book using the magic of e-mail and Google Hangouts.

The amazing ABA LPD Publishing staff members (Denise Constantine, Lindsay Dawson, and Laura Bolesta) are next in line to thank. They are a joy to work with.

My sincere appreciation goes to my Project Manager, Jennifer Ellis, and also to all the peer reviewers for their quick turnaround over the Christmas/New Years Eve holiday season: Jennifer Ator, Renay Bloom, Kathleen Havener, Blair Janis, Cookie Lewis, and Tom Mighell.

For inspiring me to become a law librarian in 1976 and teaching me all about print legal research, I owe my gratitude to my University of Illinois library science legal research professors, Carol Boast and Nancy Johnson. Im also grateful to my fellow law librarian, Cindy Chick, for introducing me (and many other law librarians) to the Internet and how we could use it for free legal research.

Judy K. Davis

I would like to thank everyone at the USC Law Library for the support that allowed me to take on this project. Thank you for your advice when I needed it and for your patience when I didnt take it. Many thanks to Carole for your confidence in me, and for your willingness to work with this new author. And finally, thank you Pavan, for being there, for believing in me, and for entertaining the cat while my attention was elsewhere.