Regardless of where you are on your path to a legal career, you should try to master the variety
of legal research tools at your fingertips.
Fortunately, there may be some help on the horizon, as companies are now
developing legal research tools that employ the power of data analytics to aid case forecasting.
That said, this 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.
Sometimes the cost of joining the bar association pays for itself due to the savings
on legal research tools alone!
Fortunately, in the Internet age and with the rise of mobile apps, lawyers now have an increasing number of options when it comes to
affordable legal research tools.
I would have expected a different emphasis at this point in the evolution
of legal research tools, particularly in relation to legislative research and noting - up.
The
specialized legal research tools — and the whole framework of legal information — has been foreign to many or most of the students before the preceding month or two.
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But, a basically aesthetic motivation that mostly matters to people who make up a tiny portion of the main users of the product (non-lawyers) that poses multiple threats to how statutes will be located
using legal research tools, and how it will be interpreted once located, means that reorganizing statutes is not something to be done lightly.
Here are 6
new legal research tools on Westlaw to know about in 2017 to streamline your legal research and get the relevant information you need quickly.
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.
Performing legal research is an important and unavoidable aspect of the practice of law, but the costs of using the largest
commercial legal research tools (namely, Westlaw and Lexis) are -LSB-...]
But there are many different
legal research tools available online, either for free or for a nominal fee, they said, including Casemaker, Fastcase, LoisLaw, Findlaw and the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.
Whether it was maintaining a costly legal library full of books or, more recently, paying an expensive monthly subscription to Westlaw or LexisNexis, high
cost legal research tools were a necessary expense that few law firms could avoid.
Hence the appeal of
legal research tools for mobile devices: just before the iPad premiered, FastCase generated a lot of buzz in the blawgosphere by announcing a free legal research app for the iPhone.
Promising a comprehensive
legal research tool at an affordable price, a new legal research site, eLaw, launched yesterday.
But instead of creating yet another tool to merely assist lawyers do their job better (such as a
better legal research tool or a better data analytics tool), LegalMation was developed specifically to actually produce first drafts of documents in the early stages of a litigation — preparation of documents that we always believed lawyers are too valuable to perform.
A lawyer working on an unlimited budget at a large firm could turn to
computerized legal research tools and identify Westlaw headnotes on the topic or pull up lawyer briefs from seminal cases to find a string cite of cases with parentheticals describing various fact patterns.
Within China, the Supreme People's Court started using an AI - enabled
legal research tool called FaXin to search for precedent and identify analogous decisions to help guide judges.
Not only with a technologically advanced court case management system, but also
with legal research tools, drafting tools, document sharing and management systems and restitution recovery information that will allow courts to operate efficiently internally and with external partners.
I very much had that TEDx talk in mind during a recent demo of the
ROSS legal research tool, which, it notes prominently, is «Powered by IBM Watson.»
The team at Casetext has been working hard over the past few years to offer a
superior legal research tool that will eventually eliminate the need for legacy search tools, level the playing field and make lawyers and law firms more efficient.
The New Year is a great time to re-assess
old legal research tools and review new ones, so here's a look at some of the additions to and changes in international legal information resources in the past couple of years.
I'm keen on hearing more of what Gary has to say, as I think the focus on digital information and online search engines has shunted aside the real question of the taxonomy and subject control of legal information, which is the foundation upon which all the modern forms of
printed legal research tools developed.