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Amplify Google Scholar with CiteStack

August 28, 2010

Many solo-small attorneys elect not to pay for Lexis or Westlaw and instead uselLower cost alternatives like Fastcase (free with bar membership) and Google Scholar (always free). When I am researching I tend to use both Scholar and Fastcase, but CiteStack may tip the scales in favor of Google Scholar.

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Learn Multiple Legal Research Platforms

February 18, 2010

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. During my 1L legal writing course, our law librarians empowered me with fundamental legal research skills. We learned to apply these skills to the archaic online databases of Westlaw [...]

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LexisNexis: We Broke It, You Buy It

February 12, 2010

If you just bought Time Matters 10, are you bothered that LexisNexis just charged you hundreds of dollars for a “bug fix release”? You do not see Toyota charging car owners to fix their broken pedals, so why should you pay to fix LexisNexis’s broken product? Good question. No worries, from now on, LexisNexis will [...]

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The Debut of Bloomberg Law

October 17, 2009

The duel between LexisNexis and Westlaw is about to become a three-way battle—Bloomberg Law rolls out later this month. Bloomberg Law’s claim to fame is integrating real-time news and business bulletins with legal content. The service also has comparable features to Westlaw and LexisNexis—case law search, citation check, headnotes, etc. Whether or not Bloomberg Law [...]

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LexisNexis’ new public interest program: just another marketing pitch?

May 5, 2009

Update: LexisNexis has expanded eligibility for its ASPIRE program to include all law school graduates pursuing public interest work, until September 2010. LexisNexis has just kicked off registration for ASPIRE, a new program providing free access to a “robust menu of materials” including federal/state cases, codes, regulations, and law reviews to law school graduates working [...]

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LexisNexis has gone paperless

August 25, 2008

Kudos to LexisNexis for its efforts to reduce paper waste! At a moot court orientation session at the University of Minnesota Law School this morning, the LexisNexis rep showed up and—this blew me away—did not hand out a single sheet of paper. The Westlaw rep, meanwhile, made a huge book available. Mercifully, they did not [...]

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