Strategic Information How to Find It, How to Use It
December 6, 2006
Wanda McDavid

General Print Resources

Bates, Mary Ellen. Super Searchers Cover the World: The Online Secrets of Global Business Researchers . Cyberage Books, 2001.

Freedman, Ellen. “How Important is Strategic Intelligence Gathering to the Marketing Efforts of Your Firm?” Law Practice Today Management (July 2005).

Campbell, Steven J. “Is Your Firm Firing on All Four Cylinders?” Law Practice Management pp. 46-48. (September 2003) .

Broady, Judith. “Using information to create business value: City of London legal firms, a case study.” Performance Measurement and Metrics, 5:1 pp. 5-10, (January 2004).

Carson, Clara and Barbara Curran. “Growth and Gender Diversity A Statistical Profile of the Legal Profession in 2000.” Researching Law: An ABF Update, 16:1 p1, pp. 7-11 (Winter 2005).

Greene, Mark T. “What Client Surveys Are and Why Law Firms Should Do Them.” The Sugarcrest Report 1:21 ( May 19, 2003 )

Print Resources (Ethics)

Competitive Intelligence Ethics: Navigating the Gray Zone . Dale Fehringer and Bonnie Hohhof, editors. SCIP (Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals). 2006.

The Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional. Jan Goldman, editor. Scarecrow Press, 2006.

Internet Resources

ABA Market Research Department
http://www.abanet.org/marketresearch/resource.html

What Competitive Intelligence Is and Is Not
http://www.fuld.com/Company/CI.html

Fuld & Company – The Internet Intelligence Index
http://www.fuld.com/TIndex/HomePage.html

SurfWax.com
http://www.surfwax.com/

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell 2005 Small Firm Marketing Trends
http://martindale.com/powerpoint/slindex.ppt

First Research Legal Services
http://www.firstresearch.com/Industry-Profiles.asp?source=VRb

Economy.com
http://www.economy.com/home/products/service_overview.asp?selVal=3&service=6

Valuation Resources.com
http://www.valuationresources.com/Reports/SIC8111Attorneys.htm

How Important is Strategic Intelligence Gathering to the Marketing Efforts of Your Firm?
http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/mgt07052.html

“What Client Surveys Are and Why Law Firms Should Do Them.”
http://www.imakenews.com/sugarcrestreport/e_article000152157.cfm

Law Marketing Portal – BTI Survey: 12 Marketing Practices Drive Pacesetting Performance October 19, 2004
http://www.lawmarketing.com/pages/articles.asp?Action=Article&ArticleID=329

Law Marketing Portal – Top 50 Law Firms in Marketing and Communications
http://www.lawmarketing.com/pages/articles.asp?Action=Article&ArticleID=595

Hoovers
http://www.hoovers.com/free/

Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/

LexisNexis Company Dossier
http://www.lexisnexis.com/industrydossier/default.asp

Westlaw Legal Due Diligence Reports
http://west.thomson.com/westlaw/ddr/legalddr.aspx

Company Information on the Web
http://www.virtualchase.com/coinfo/index.htm

Locating Company Information on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/company.htm

Courtlink
http://www.lexisnexis.com/courtlink/online/

Court Express
http://www.courtexpress.com/

CoCourts.com
http://www.cocourts.com/

Courthouse News Service
http://www.courthousenews.com/

Denver Public Library
http://www.denver.lib.co.us/

Arapahoe County Public Library
http://www.arapahoelibraries.org/

Colorado Secretary of State
http://www.sos.state.co.us/

PACER
http://pacer.psc.uscourts.gov/

Jury Verdict Reporter of Colorado
http://www.jvrc.com/

Denver Public Library
http://denverlibrary.org/

Google.com
http://www.google.com/

Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/

Ask.com
http://www.ask.com/

Colorado Bar Association
http://cobar.org

Denver Tax Assessor's Office
http://www.denvergov.org/RealProperty.asp

Colorado Division of Registrations and the Automated Licensure Information System Online (Alison)
http://www.dora.state.co.us/registrations/

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

Cybercemetery
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/

Firstgov
http://www.firstgov.gov/

SearchSystems.net
http://www.searchsystems.net/

Public Record Retriever Network
http://www.brbpub.com/prrn/

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