He noted that the Fastcase app is «the largest
free law library available on the iPhone» and it «is a surprisingly robust legal research tool that will allow its users to find cases and statutes wherever they are, whenever they want, all for free.»
The app provides access to the largest
free law library available on the iPhone.
Nonetheless, it does provide iPad access to
a free law library incorporating case law for all 50 states and access to statutes for most states and the federal government.
FastCase Fastcase is a powerful legal research tool providing access to
a free law library incorporating case law for all 50 states and access to statutes for most states and the federal government.
Not exact matches
The
law requires local governments to set up public
libraries in their districts, provide
free library access, and organize public events.
The property also includes a
library / office with XP Computer and
free broardband access There is access to off street garage parking and the rear yard is fully fenced to suit young children or pets (Pets are permitted in the backyard but are not allowed in the house under local Health Department by
laws.).
You can also cut corners on your legal research by using websites such as Google Scholar Legal (
free), Fastcase (
free via iPad / iPhone App and through many state bar associations), and Jenkins
Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local law libra
Law Library ($ 155 a year); or by hitting the books by visiting a local
law libra
law library.
To honour her considerable contribution to the success of this virtual
law library, to continue her legacy, and to inspire and empower CALL members to continue her passion of supporting the provision of
free access to the
law, CanLII has established the Janine Miller Fellowship.
The Statement, that promotes the principles of open access in legal scholarly publishing in Canada and
free access to legal information in society, follows the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship adopted by the
law libraries of major American universities in late 2008.
The World LII also includes the International
Law Library, which it says is the most comprehensive free - access international law library on the Intern
Law Library, which it says is the most comprehensive
free - access international
law library on the Intern
law library on the Internet.
Although print
law reports are proprietary, they are generally available for free in local Law Society or university libraries (though not necessarily with minimal effort, especially for those in remote communities and those unfamiliar with the process of legal research), whereas Lexis, Carswell, etc. generally are n
law reports are proprietary, they are generally available for
free in local
Law Society or university libraries (though not necessarily with minimal effort, especially for those in remote communities and those unfamiliar with the process of legal research), whereas Lexis, Carswell, etc. generally are n
Law Society or university
libraries (though not necessarily with minimal effort, especially for those in remote communities and those unfamiliar with the process of legal research), whereas Lexis, Carswell, etc. generally are not.
Scott Frey, Reference Librarian, at the Western State College of
Law, Fullerton, California, has written a nice Delorean free article that takes a look at the future of law libraries from the perspective of law librarian's opinions from the pa
Law, Fullerton, California, has written a nice Delorean
free article that takes a look at the future of
law libraries from the perspective of law librarian's opinions from the pa
law libraries from the perspective of
law librarian's opinions from the pa
law librarian's opinions from the past.
Over the last five years my
library has discarded about half of its
law reports,
freeing up shelf space for items that were being used.
The app, which had been previously only available on iPad and iPhone, allows attorneys to perform
free legal research through Fastcase's state and federal
law library.
I have talked with more then one client who started out by using the
law library, or another
free resource for legal help, and still ended up hiring us.
As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a
law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old
law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly
free ones at that.
A fantastic development out of the United States last week — Harvard
Law School and Ravel Law plan to make access to the school's entire library of reported U.S. case law available for free on Ravel's websi
Law School and Ravel
Law plan to make access to the school's entire library of reported U.S. case law available for free on Ravel's websi
Law plan to make access to the school's entire
library of reported U.S. case
law available for free on Ravel's websi
law available for
free on Ravel's website.
Few
law libraries in Canada now subscribe to foreign print reporters — relying on a combination of
free and pay online services.
Earlier this month, the International Labour Organization and a group of academic partners that includes the Yale and Cornell
law school
libraries launched GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), a program that will give users in more than 115 developing countries
free access to a wide range of essential legal information.
Just two days after Public.Research.Org published 1.8 million pages of copyright -
free federal case
law online (see my post), the company that provided it with those cases, Fastcase, unveiled an even larger
free library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and legal forms.
I attended a presentation yesterday organized by the National Capital Association of
Law Libraries (NCALL) where a representative from the Library of Parliament (LOP) outlined plans to make all older federal parliamentary debates available for
free via PDF within the next few years.
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law data bases and provides full text of almost all legal decisions in the united states and several european countries lexis is a computer lexis is a computer assisted legal research service that provides access to databases covering primary and secondary legal and lexis is a massive collection of legal databases which includes over 650 full text legal journals lexis is a massive collection of legal and news databases owned by reed elsevier lexis is a collection of full lexis is beschikbaar op de publieks lexis is available at the public pc in front of the information desk on the 1st floor lexis is made up of a number of different databases lexis is available via the university dial lexis is te vergelijken met een zelfstandige juridische bibliotheek op het gebied van amerikaans recht lexis is a comprehensive online information service containing the full text of legislation and case lexis is the most comprehensive site for online legal research lexis is blind and will need special care lexis is not a common term but is primarily associated with the services offered by complainant lexis is a paper exchange programme that our department participates in with several english departments in ontario and quebec lexis is and particularly how it is different from «vocabulary lexis is the basis of language lexis is probably less well known lexis is now advertising lexisone on
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LLMC - Digital and the Making of Modern
Law: Foreign Primary Sources: 1600 - 1970 have historical civil codes (as do
free digital collections /
libraries).
With this content, and with the likely future content of other Canadian legislative material being digitized by various Canadian
law libraries and other organizations (SLAW postings here, here and here on that topic), many private
law libraries (including at my own organization) may be at the stage to
free up close to 2 long rows of this material in print (assuming the online versions to be reliable and easy - to - use).
Thus
freed from the insuperable burden of plodding from
library to
library, refreshing his recollection upon index systems of various books, pulling them out and ploughing through them, and then making laborious niotes in longhand, the lawyer can devote his time and mind to the social, political, and economic aspects of
law and justice.
See previous Oregon Legal Research news about
free (to you) legal research resources at the Multnomah
Law Library and at other county law librari
Law Library and at other county
law librari
law libraries.
In June 2016, we partnered with Courthouse
Libraries BC and family
law lawyer Zara Suleman to offer a
free (sold out!)
I like to think the Canadian digital
law library should be
free to all and contain a full array of historical (pre-1980) legal information from both primary and secondary sources.
My bottom line is simply this: as a director of a
law library which, like most others, will never have enough money to buy everything our users would like us to have, how can I justify spending money on a title which we have online (and in many cases, as with my two examples, for
free).
I'm not aware of any particularly rich site on droit d'auteur offered by Quebec
law libraries — feel
free to poke my ignorance — but a good collection of sources on Canadian copyright reform is at Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada found at http://www.carl-abrc.ca/projects/copyright/copyright-f.html
Law society
libraries could agree to maintain content relevant to their own jurisdictions,
freeing the others to concentrate on local needs.
I doubt my
library would cancel print subscriptions to Canadian case
law reporters unless there is a complete archive made available online for
free of all, say, pre-1990 decisions.
In sharing a panel session of
free Internet legal research with Connie Crosby and two American
law library colleagues, I learned about and briefly perused Connie Crosby's new book called Effective Blogging for
Libraries available from Neal - Schuman so wanted to mention and celebrate this new title.
You have to register (
free) to gain access to the
library and to be invited to get the (also
free) International Journal of Not - for - Profit
Law sent to you electronically.
Birmingham and Westminster are teaming up with videoconferencing firm Instant
Law UK to offer
free legal advice via webcam in public
libraries:
In a digital age, the public deserves a
free, digital public
law library.
TAGS: Legal informatics; Legal information systems; Legal informatics blogs; Legal information institutes;
Free access to
law; Digital
law libraries.
The American Association of
Law Libraries (AALL) has awarded its 2010 New Product of the Year Award to legal publisher Fastcase, Inc. for the company's
free legal research application for the iPhone.
Texas Bar, for innovative use of video and extensive online how - to
library, Minnesota Bar for experimenting in blogs and social media (even if off the main site), Mississippi for a terrific solo tool kit, Association of the Bar of New York for extensive resources (including a thorough business plan) on starting a
law firm, Colorado bar for unique programs like a conciliation panel that helps contentious opposing counsel get along, the DC Bar (for the very limited reason that it has been offering
free, monthly programs on starting a practice and NOT for its Avvo insantity) and the ABA for solosez and its attempt at social media with Legally Minded.
TAGS: Legal informatics conferences; Legal information institutes;
Free access to
law; Digital
law libraries.
TAGS: Legal informatics; Legal information systems;
Free access to
law; Digital
law libraries.
As I see it, Google's
free legal research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not for a long, long time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services for
free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust
free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis for solos when no other options, save the
law library and manual research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.
Fastcase puts the entire American
law library in the palm of your hand with
free mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
TAGS: Legal informatics; Legal information systems; Legal information institutes;
Free access to
law; Digital
law libraries.
Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic
law library in Canada would take ownership of this type of customized search engine since Google search engines customized by Universities are eligible for «ad -
free» sites (the foregoing link includes Google ads as part of the search results, something which I would prefer to do without).
The Toronto Association of
Law Libraries (TALL) hosted a Publishers» Forum at the University of Toronto
Law School last week entitled «
Free Access to Legislation: How Do They Do It?»
LexisNexis provides
free database access to all RULE
law students, donates books to its
library, and has produced a video chronicling the impact of CLEW on particular students.
I think a number of
law libraries would welcome having reliable (and complete) PDFs online, thereby allowing us to
free up some shelf - space of the print SCR's.
«Unlike other
free resources, Fastcase backstops PLoL, so citations to older cases not in its database appear as links to Fastcase, increasing the size of the PLoL
library to virtually the entire American
law library.
If you to search older stuff, you need to switch to a pay service (which you can usually get for
free at a [
law]
library).