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(To keep a copy of this page, print it or save it to disk.) Info gathering as easy as the click of a mouse Mon., Oct. 20, 1997 FINAL EDITION Section: MONEY Page 8B Doug Hamilton needed a lawyer bad. Earlier this year, the Canadian internist and engineer says he was offered the opportunity of a lifetime to work on a medical support team for NASA in Houston. But Hamilton knew the daunting morass of immigration requirements he faced would require hiring a lawyer. How Hamilton found that lawyer provides a good step-by-step example of how easy it is to use the Internet to gather information on lawyers. With no luck finding help in his native Calgary, Alberta, Hamilton flicked on his computer and put his mouse in motion. After typing ``visa'' and ``immigration'' into a Web site that searches the Internet, the address for Nashville lawyer Greg Siskind's home page popped up on the screen. Within five minutes, Hamilton and Siskind were exchanging e-mail. By week's end, Hamilton was planning a move to Houston. ``If I hadn't gotten on my computer that day, I probably would have
ended up trying to get a recommendation from somebody at a cocktail
party,'' says Hamilton, 40, who with Siskind's help received a special
work visa. ©COPYRIGHT 1997 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. |
