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• Graphic feed: launching Tenurometer© or, audit culture and the mining of Google Scholar

  
  GlobalHigherEd — Authority: 107
  Source: Tenurometer © 2009 Diep Thi Hoang & Fil Menczer , School of Informatics and Computing , Indiana University Bloomington
  2 days ago

• The inexorable trend toward free access to court documents

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 461
  I mentioned last week that Google Scholar can now be used to find case law. It’s real progress.Court documents, after all, are public documents, so it sometimes seems a bit frustrating that the only reliable way to do legal research is through private systems. As Wired’s Threat Level explains , “West ...
  6 days ago

• Google adds legal opinion search engine

  
  Appealing in Nevada — Authority: 114
  Google now offers a search engine containing legal opinions.  To get to the search engine, click on Google Scholar  and select "legal opinions and journals."   The database includes U.S. Supreme Court decision dating back to 1791; federal appellate, district, tax and bankruptcy court opinions from 1923 onward, ...
  1 week ago

• Legal research via Google.

  
  Dum Spiro Spero — Authority: 118
  …I am lulled into complacency by the simple fact that Google does what it does so well. And so it is with Google’s entry into the legal research field with its announcement yesterday that Google Scholar now allows users to search full-text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state appellate and trial courts. As ...
  1 week ago

• Case Law Now on Google Scholar

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 511
  Thanks to TechnoLawyers Blawgworld, Ive read Dan Friedlanders Law On My Phone post, " Google Enters Into The Realm Of Legal Research And Adds Legal Opinions To Google Scholar ."  Heres a snippet from the beginning: Is this the beginning of the end for Westlaw and Lexis? Today, Google added the ability to search ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google + iPhone = Free Legal Research!

  
  Advocate's Studio — Authority: 466
  iPhone user? Lawyer? Or simply interested in the law? Remember last week’s Studio post about Google Scholar’s Advanced Search and legal authorities? Run, don’t walk, to Jeff Richardson’s great post at iPhone J.D. about using Google Scholar on your iPhone to track down free legal resources. Richardson ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google, The Good: Free Law!

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 515
  Although I have used this space to question the Google Book Deal, I do think that all The Google does is bad. Indeed, the fundamentals of where the Google Book Deal began were good. And now, as some of you may know (and Greg helped with that), Google is trying to go where no one has gone (successfully as far as I can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google, The Good: Free Law!

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 604
  Although I have used this space to question the Google Book Deal, I do think that all The Google does is bad. Indeed, the fundamentals of where the Google Book Deal began were good. And now, as some of you may know, Google is trying to go where no one has gone (successfully as far as I can tell) before. Yes, as of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Scholar Launches Online Access to U.S. Laws and Cases

  
  New York Accident Lawyer | New York Malpractice Attorney | NY Injury Lawyer — Authority: 409
  I want to pass along some BIG news that is wonderful for everyone: Google is now offering FREE access to a huge amount of U.S. law through Google Scholar . Why is this a big deal? Because historically law firms have had to pay incredibly high rates to gain access to online case law via services such as WestLaw ...
  2 weeks ago

• Case Law on Google

  
  The Connected Lawyer — Authority: 117
  The big news that broke last week was that Google Scholar now allows you to search state and federal court opinions. The official announcement is here . I think this is awesome. In general, I believe that making information more available is a good thing. Making our laws freely available and easily searchable is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Launches Law Search Engine

  
  Dozier Internet Law, PC: Internet Lawyer — Authority: 116
  Wow is all we can say at Dozier Internet Law. Google has just launched a robust index and search engine for legal decisions in the US. You can search by jurisdiction, subject, etc. and it will return results by relevance. Its called Google Scholar. Law firms have paid for research tools that generate this information ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Goodies-Search for Scholarly Papers

  
  Blogging For Boomers — Authority: 113
  This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Google Goodies This is a brand new search feature in Google. It is in Beta. Beta means it is very new and they want you to test it out. So, test Google Scholar . I put in baby boomer, and also searched on blogging. Very interesting. Give it a try. Tweet This Post
  2 weeks ago

• The Laws

  
  Lucky Thirteen — Authority: 92
  Maybe I am behind the times or a visionary, but if my web developing skills were of a level where I could design a search engine,  I would.  I would a design a search engine specific to the laws of the land.  Then, individuals like you and I who are literate with access to the internet could go to my search engine ...
  2 weeks ago

• Taking Google Scholar Out For A Test Drive.

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 476
  Ok, lets get Rothstein out of the way: John Pacenti and the Herald report on how Scott allegedly bilked this investor just weeks before he took off for Morocco. The purported "investment opportunity" is insultingly stupid: The deal offered a return of eight percent per month for the following four months. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• State and Federal Case Law Now On Google

  
  Private Investigator Public Records Internet Search Privacy Reporting - PI Buzz — Authority: 99
  Google Scholar is indexing the case law in all 50 states - Court of Appeals and Supreme Court - and the federal courts. As with the other Google search engines, Google Scholar makes use of its own advanced search operators . Search by keywords, personal names, inclusive dates, and specify one or more states in a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Morning Roundup

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 434
  Good morning everyone!  Today is Thursday, November 19 and this is your quick look back at the headlines. A judge in Louisiana held that the US Army is liable for some Katrina damage… Google debuts its new case law database …. Winston & Strawn has two new offices in Asia… David Hamilton is getting ...
  2 weeks ago

• Legal Research with Google Scholar

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 433
  The next time you to need to legal research, consider using Google Scholar . Google Scholar has a rather impressive library of judicial opinions, and if you have a citation you can probably find it. The information is more raw, however, and Google Scholar does not organize the results in the same manner as Westlaw ...
  2 weeks ago

• Have you used Google Scholar?

  
  Business Tools Blog — Authority: 117
  Google Scholar was launched in November 2004, but few seem to know that it’s out there.   If you used Google Scholar before, you might be pleasantly surprised. (Google claims that many bugs have been resolved)  Use Advanced Scholar Search for the best results.  Google explains: What is Google Scholar? ...
  2 weeks ago

• News Flash: Court Opinions Present the Reasons that Support the Decision

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 434
  I’m sure this will come as a surprise to everyone, but according to Google “Distinguished Engineer” Anurag Acharya, “Court opinions don’t just describe a decision but also present the reasons that support the decision”.  So much for the theory that judges are arbitrary and capricious! Acharya’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Scholar offers Case Law

  
  Schaffer Law Library Blog — Authority: 109
  Google Scholar has added a free database to its site allowing one to search case law.  Be Spacific has more information. Posted in General Interest, Legal Research 101 Tagged: case law, databases, electronic resources, google, Google Scholar, internet research, online research
  2 weeks ago

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