Can anyone help me to build a search string for an E&P oil and gas attorney in Alaska?

[Melissa Loyd]

I am looking for an E&P oil and gas  attorney in Alaska or would consider moving to our Alaska office.

[gary cozin]

Try the following in Google:

site:linkedin.com "oil and gas" (~lawyer | ~attornery | "legal counsel") jd "alaska area" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir

If you take out the 'jd' it produced more results.

I do not know what E&P is - but you can spell it out & play with various key words - (NOTE: Do not use '&' symbol as Google doesn't recognize special characters.

Gary

[Melissa Loyd]

Thanks, Gary. I'll give it a try..

gary cozin said:

Try the following in Google:

site:linkedin.com "oil and gas" (~lawyer | ~attornery | "legal counsel") jd "alaska area" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir

If you take out the 'jd' it produced more results.

I do not know what E&P is - but you can spell it out & play with various key words - (NOTE: Do not use '&' symbol as Google doesn't recognize special characters.

Gary

[Dave Galley]

Gary - E&P = Exploration and Production, I believe, in petro-prospecting parlance. Tried your string, the opposite with the JD inclusion -- produced 40 more results (41 w/o, 81 w/).

Replacing "oil and gas" with "exploration and production" drastically reduces the results, 4 w/ JD 6 w/o, but the results mostly look like scientists, not lawyers.

gary cozin said:

Try the following in Google:

site:linkedin.com "oil and gas" (~lawyer | ~attornery | "legal counsel") jd "alaska area" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir

If you take out the 'jd' it produced more results.

I do not know what E&P is - but you can spell it out & play with various key words - (NOTE: Do not use '&' symbol as Google doesn't recognize special characters.

Gary

[Dave Galley]

Alternatively, have you tried searching the Alaska Bar member directory?

You can either capture the entire active member list (~3000) and go from there, or try searching for people in the right geo areas or working for firms / corp divisions likely to be specializing in this area.

I love licensed professions, because the names and other info are almost always provided for free by the government, or in the cases of doctors & lawyers, the governing bodies. Non licensed professions w/ strong trade orgs that offer certs keep their behind pay / membership walls, annoying me to no end.

[Melissa Loyd]

I actually tried to run a searchin the Alaska Bar Directory and all it gave me was contact informaiton. I wouldnt find a way to break it down by company or area of expertise. Any suggestions?

DG said:

Alternatively, have you tried searching the Alaska Bar member directory?

You can either capture the entire active member list (~3000) and go from there, or try searching for people in the right geo areas or working for firms / corp divisions likely to be specializing in this area.

I love licensed professions, because the names and other info are almost always provided for free by the government, or in the cases of doctors & lawyers, the governing bodies. Non licensed professions w/ strong trade orgs that offer certs keep their behind pay / membership walls, annoying me to no end.

[Dave Galley]

Melissa -- not really possible to do that, but since one of the fields is "employer" or "company", you can enter a simple search for "exploration" or "petroleum" or "oil" or "gas" or "production" and see what firm names pop up. Chances are that a lawyer working for BP Exploration has some relevant experience, or knows some folks who are. You can cross-reference the list of companies or attorneys to other sites - linkedin or even just google the names - to get a better idea of a particular individual or company's expertise.

Melissa Loyd said:

I actually tried to run a searchin the Alaska Bar Directory and all it gave me was contact informaiton. I wouldnt find a way to break it down by company or area of expertise. Any suggestions?

[Melissa Loyd]

Jsus tried it.. IT WORKED!!!! I put in exploration and I have about 10 attorneys from BP exploration along with their email address!!! THANK YOU!!!!


DO you know of any training on search string searches coming up. I really would like to be more versed in this. I can definetely see the value it can provide.


DG said:

Melissa -- not really possible to do that, but since one of the fields is "employer" or "company", you can enter a simple search for "exploration" or "petroleum" or "oil" or "gas" or "production" and see what firm names pop up. Chances are that a lawyer working for BP Exploration has some relevant experience, or knows some folks who are. You can cross-reference the list of companies or attorneys to other sites - linkedin or even just google the names - to get a better idea of a particular individual or company's expertise.

Melissa Loyd said:

I actually tried to run a searchin the Alaska Bar Directory and all it gave me was contact informaiton. I wouldnt find a way to break it down by company or area of expertise. Any suggestions?

[Dave Galley]

Not really sure - I get e-mails about them but usually don't bother. I'm less concerned with general search concepts and more interested in learning (other than through trial and error) the pecularities of specific systems (valid operators and string lengths and such for specific search engines or web site internal search features), so I tend not to read the messages. But I know there are a lot of webinars going on about these topics!

There're a lot of sourcer / researcher groups on LI and various other sites, and a lot of blogs that'll touch on it, which might include notices of upcoming learning opportunities. I would suggest doing some searches on the subject. ;)

I think the most important thing to learn is how to conceptualize and break down the search process. Once you have that, the rest is syntax, which I've always found to be the easier part to learn.