Not exact matches
Even so, Andreozzi asserts that such
secondary materials account for no more than 10 percent of all
legal research.
What they have that others do not are significant databases of
secondary legal -
research materials such as treatises, specialized
legal -
research materials in particular areas of concentration, and ever - growing collections of public - records data, court and deposition transcripts, docket information, and all sorts of other information that remains largely unavailable or inaccessible elsewhere online.
In one of our later advanced
legal research and writing class of the term, we turned our attention from traditional primary and
secondary material to alternative or less - expected
legal research resources.
Even as any number of other
legal research platforms have come along, what has continued to distinguish the big two are their libraries of
secondary legal materials.
Not only will it enhance Bloomberg Law's visibility and authenticity as a
legal research provider, but it could also help it gain access to authors and content it needs to help fill out its libraries of
secondary materials.
Today everybody (or a very large majority of users) do their
legal research with digital tools; the exception being the consultation of treatise and
secondary material not available online.
West and Lexis (and BNA and CCH, etc) bring much, much more than fancy and clean databases of primary
legal materials: the real value is the
secondary material that helps
research understand all the vastness and obtuseness that the primary
materials offer the unwary.
Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic,
research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently
legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are
secondary sources, not primary sources of law.
To that end, a bibliography of
secondary materials from all
legal publishers is included with each Title to facilitate further
research.
The Hein collection will include more than 1,800 law reviews back to their first volumes, and represents the first
secondary material to be integrated into the Fastcase
legal research service.