We wanted to share what we have learned about the best
legal research sites we have «scoped out.»
Prior to the June 2 launch of this website, official opinions were available only through paid, commercial
legal research sites.
Although Washington appellate opinions were also available through free
legal research sites, the court's announcement said that the free sites «didn't have fully updated and reliably accurate versions of all opinions.»
Let's start with the best
legal research sites you've never heard of.
WhichDraft.com, a document - assembly site.PatentSurf, USCodeSurf and Case - Law, three related
legal research sites.
Increasingly,
legal research sites are seeking to do exactly this — to promote a more collaborative, crowdsourced approach to legal research.
Tom Smith, professor at University of San Diego School of Law and CEO of
legal research site PreCYdent, lets his algorithm loose on Sotomayor's cases.
It describes itself not as
a legal research site, but as a platform for «open online legal argument» designed for both law students and practicing lawyers.
It launched in 2013 as a free
legal research site that would use crowdsourcing to annotate cases.
I summed up my sense of this in a recent post, where I wrote, «We live in a time when two guys in law school who think they have a better idea for
a legal research site can run with it and create the company Ravel Law by the time they graduate.
While WeCite is not comparable to Shepard's or KeyCite in its thoroughness, capabilities or analysis, it is a useful addition to this free
legal research site.
What if a free
legal research site could post cases and other primary legal materials and ask its users to help enhance, explain and explicate those materials?
Promising a comprehensive legal research tool at an affordable price, a new
legal research site, eLaw, launched yesterday.
I wrote not long ago about Casetext, a new
legal research site that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.
The legal research site Casetext is launching something today that could be a game - changer in how lawyers publish and share articles about the law.
It launched in July 2013 as a free
legal research site that used crowdsourcing to annotate its cases.
That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative
legal research site launched this week that provides free access to court opinions together with a platform for crowdsourcing references and annotations.
Put another way, Casetext wants to become not just
a legal research site, but also a platform to build legal commentary, Heller says.
I write about some emerging innovators in this area, such as Ravel,
a legal research site that presents search results visually, and Stanford's Program for Legal Technology and Design, which is using design principles to build better tools for delivering and educating about the law.
Last week, I wrote about
another legal research site, Casetext, that is planning to do something similar by adding law firm client alerts distributed via JD Supra.
Adding them into
a legal research site is a win - win, benefiting the site's users with added useful content and benefiting the firm by bringing new eyes to the materials it generates.
I should point out that Casemine is intended to be a general
legal research site that includes brief analysis.
That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative
legal research site launched this week that provides -LSB-...]
It was one year ago that I first wrote here about Casetext, the free
legal research site that uses «crowdsourcing» to annotate court opinions.
Crowdsourced
legal research site Casetext officially rolled out its new community pages this week.
This being
a legal research site, the idea is that many of the discussions that take place here will be linked to primary legal documents.
Invariably, in categories such as «Best Legal Information Starting Point» and «Best
Legal Research Site,» the top award would go to FindLaw, which in those days was operated by the husband - and - wife team of Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern.
Not exact matches
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Many are members of major
research networks in political and
legal studies, such as the Institute for Global Law and Policy based at Harvard Law School, and edit prominent
sites of scholarly discussion such as the debuting London Review of International Law.
Puneet Arora, an engaging physician who has studied at Indian and American universities and practiced medicine among America's underserved — and who currently is Amgen's director of clinical
research — appeared on behalf of Immigration Voice, an organization of «
legal high - skilled future Americans,» its Web
site says.
But since January 2009, Ari Daniel Shapiro — he uses his middle name to avoid confusion with the Ari Shapiro who reports for NPR on the Department of Justice and
legal affairs — has earned his living as an independent radio and multimedia producer, recording sounds, editing audio, and doing all the things necessary to create science - related radio shows for public radio and podcasts and audio slide shows for the Web
sites of
research institutions.
Europe's largest fusion facility, the Joint European Torus (JET), is
sited near Oxford, U.K.; a vote to leave would put it in a
legal limbo that could halt vital
research supporting the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in France.
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Her
research focuses on anti-terror law, the criminalization of and marginalization of working class youth, processes of depoliticization,
sites of urban segregation and violence, and
legal and extra-
legal policing / security practices.
Three
sites, in particular, stand out to me as potential success stories in the small world of crowdsourced
legal research.
The
site provides free access to cases and statutes for
legal research and uses crowdsourcing — insights contributed by the
legal community — to annotate the
legal materials in its collection.
Mootus is another
site that uses crowdsourcing for
legal research, but it takes a much different approach.
I have written here before that I believe Justia has become one of the best free
legal -
research sites on the Web, so this is one more feather in its cap.
I also wrote recently about Mootus, a different kind of crowdsourced
research site at which users post
legal issues to be «argued» and other users post cases that are relevant to the issue.
Although there are mobile - optimized
sites, there are no native apps for
legal research on Android.
The LoC says that its «
Legal Blawgs Web Archive is a selective collection of authoritative
sites (associated with American Bar Association approved law schools,
research institutes, think tanks and other expertise - based organizations) that contain unique, born digital content.
The two major U.S.
legal research companies, West and LexisNexis, both separately announced new initiatives and new Web
sites to help laid off lawyers as they make the transition to new jobs.
Free forever, which would include
research of state and federal law and the ability to read articles and analysis contributed to the
site by lawyers, law firms and
legal academics.
To my knowledge Lex Machina doesn't literally call their system improvements an «easy button», but the
site developments and O'Grady's description are symptomatic of this moment in how we discuss
legal research: there is a desire to make
legal research easier, and as technology improves this is becoming a reality.
Besides these
research sites, there are the corpses of so many
legal networking
sites that died primarily because of the lack of one essential ingredient: participation by lawyers.
But still, it is worth some more
research (I am aware answers on this
site should never be taken as
legal advice, don't worry).
The
legal research and information
site Justia this week added peer - based lawyer ratings and reviews as part of the Justia Lawyer Directory.
I wrote previously about CuroLegal's development of a
site for the New York State Bar Association, LawHUB, designed to streamline member access to all of its
legal content,
research, and practice management tools.
We worked with Catherine to optimize content organization and give more prominence to the
site's centerpiece, the Step - by - Step
Legal Research Process flowchart.
Although I have the benefit of a number of internal online
research guides where I work, I occasionally find myself resorting to my free
legal research and writing
site.