When online legal research platforms were proprietary, online publishers imposed per - minute and per - use pricing structures.
In an era
when online legal research still required expensive and cumbersome dial - up access to Westlaw and Lexis - Nexis, VersusLaw pioneered use of the Web to offer lawyers an alternative.
Not exact matches
That was the vision for
online legal research in 1973
when Lexis Nexis and Quicklaw pioneered in offering commercial
online access to case law.
At FindLaw, we survey
legal consumers every year, and the importance of your
online reputation is one of the leading factors they consider
when researching an attorney.
Google hit another milestone two months ago
when they put their
legal research database
online.
It was hard enough twenty years ago (
when I was still typing my law school papers) to imagine the impact of the Internet, the scope of
online law - related information and other technologies that support
legal research (e-mail, laser printing, scanning, etc.)[although twenty years ago I did have a Commodore computer that used a cassette tape deck as its memory — you had to fast forward the tape to get to different spots on the memory!.]
That was the case in 2008,
when Fastcase launched The Public Library of Law, described at the time as «the most comprehensive free resource for
legal research online.»
When I started out figuring out what I was going to do with
legal research, I bandied about the thought of trying to use some of the free
online resources that are available out there.
The Importance of
Legal Research (06:52)(8/13) The Process of Legal Research (06:32)(8/13) How and When to Use Print Sources (08:46)(8/16) Evaluating Websites (10:17)(9/16) Fundamentals of Online Searching (16:53)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part I (legal encyclopedias and treatises)(14:52)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part II (Restatements and American Law Reports)(10:47)(8/14) Statutory Research (13:51)(9/14) Internet Sites (16:22)(9/14) Case Law Research (14:53)(8/14) Researching Court Rules (13:29)(
Legal Research (06:52)(8/13) The Process of
Legal Research (06:32)(8/13) How and When to Use Print Sources (08:46)(8/16) Evaluating Websites (10:17)(9/16) Fundamentals of Online Searching (16:53)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part I (legal encyclopedias and treatises)(14:52)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part II (Restatements and American Law Reports)(10:47)(8/14) Statutory Research (13:51)(9/14) Internet Sites (16:22)(9/14) Case Law Research (14:53)(8/14) Researching Court Rules (13:29)(
Legal Research (06:32)(8/13) How and
When to Use Print Sources (08:46)(8/16) Evaluating Websites (10:17)(9/16) Fundamentals of
Online Searching (16:53)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part I (
legal encyclopedias and treatises)(14:52)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part II (Restatements and American Law Reports)(10:47)(8/14) Statutory Research (13:51)(9/14) Internet Sites (16:22)(9/14) Case Law Research (14:53)(8/14) Researching Court Rules (13:29)(
legal encyclopedias and treatises)(14:52)(9/16) Secondary Sources: Part II (Restatements and American Law Reports)(10:47)(8/14) Statutory
Research (13:51)(9/14) Internet Sites (16:22)(9/14) Case Law
Research (14:53)(8/14)
Researching Court Rules (13:29)(3/18)
«
When you think of
online legal research, LexisAdvance, WestlawNext, or BloombergLaw probably spring to mind.
He promoted the use of
online legal research by providing free access to Quicklaw to law professors, law students, and the judiciary, in the expectation that students would become paying subscribers to Quicklaw
when they started to practice law.
In the early days of
online legal research,
when everything was uncertain, governments and law societies were legitimately concerned about the prospect of foreign ownership of Canadian
legal information.