Law in Contemporary Society

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WestlawKiller 8 - 12 Jul 2010 - Main.JohnSchwab
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 Ok maybe not, but has anyone used Google Scholar to search for legal opinions? It's still quite primitive, but it has "how cited" similar to shepard's and keycite, all of the cites within the texts are conveniently hyperlinked, and a search for libel and public figure in New York cases brought up most of the same cases I found using Westlaw for my moot court brief. Did I mention it's completely free?

If this type of technology gets better and stays as readily accessible, why will we need to pay high fees for Westlaw and Lexis Nexis? Someone asked in class how we can cover costs working on our own, but I think it will only get easier and cheaper to do the kind of work lawyers do, and this is one example of how this will happen.

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 RECAP is an extension (or “add on”) for the Firefox web browser that improves the PACER experience while helping PACER users build a free and open repository of public court records. RECAP users automatically donate the documents they purchase from PACER into a public repository hosted by the Internet Archive. And RECAP saves users money by alerting them when a document they are searching for is already available from this repository. RECAP also makes other enhancements to the PACER experience, including more user-friendly file names.

-- DevinMcDougall - 09 Jul 2010

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>		I'm not sure this is the right thread for this, but I was wondering if anyone had used Westlaw Next yet? As someone who uses Google Scholar and finds it very helpful, it seems to me that Westlaw Next is an attempt to limit the use of/interest in Scholar. I've been using Next quite a bit and, while I like some of the new, smaller features (folders, etc.) I find that it's "natural language" search is pretty poor. Just wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with it (and maybe someone who could tell me where I'm going wrong).

-- JohnSchwab - 12 Jul 2010


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