TOWARD A TRULY SEAMLESS WEB - BRINGING ORDER TO LAW ON THE INTERNET

The Internet promises to radically transform the delivery of legal inf ormation, but its enormous potential will be fully realized only with the advent of better software tools for locating and retrieving docume nts. This article argues that effective legal research on the Internet will require the creation of intelligent searching utilities that bri ng legal expertise and up-to-date Internet knowledge directly to the d esktop. In response to this need, the authors developed the LIBClient intelligent search client to aid the user in locating and navigating I nternet-based legal archives by providing novel features that seamless ly extend the popular Netscape Navigator software far the World Wide W eb.