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• Thomson Reuters Cutting 240 Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  Thomson Reuters  announced today that it was cutting 240 jobs from its legal division, with most of the layoffs to come from North America.  The legal division is part of the financial data and news provider’s professional business, which includes Westlaw, FindLaw and a publishing unit.  The Thomson Corporation ...
  3 days ago

• The inexorable trend toward free access to court documents

  
  Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity — Authority: 417
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Case Law Now on Google Scholar

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 529
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Google, The Good: Free Law!

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 530
  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 ...
  1 week 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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  New York Accident Lawyer | New York Malpractice Attorney | NY Injury Lawyer — Authority: 410
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Legal Research with Google Scholar

  
  Lawyerist — Authority: 139
  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

• Google Scholar: Open Source Law

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 644
  In law school I wrote an article asserting that the open source movement would ultimately wage war on judicial case law. First, we must note that like legislation, case law is public information. Second, like legislative laws, citizens are responsible for behaving according to judicial law. Therefore, logically these ...
  2 weeks ago

• 5 O’Clock Roundup: Moving into a networked era, Tumblr envy, Open Web

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 157
  Watch out Lexis-Nexis and WestLaw! Google’s coming: You can now read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts with Google Scholar. Expect an oligopoly (as in the legal research industry) to feel some pressure as Google rolls out another free and disruptive service. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google’s Attempt to Takeover the World Reaches New Levels

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 679
  Wow.  This morning  Google announced that it has launched a new feature on Google Scholar that makes it possible for anyone, anywhere, to do a comprehensive search of every published court decision in the country.  This is huge news.  It won’t be the complete death knell for Lexis and Westlaw – ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Scholar Search Now Includes U.S. Case Law and Legal Journals

  
  Social Media Law Student — Authority: 527
  The legal research game has just taken a light-year shift, thanks to Google. Last night, Google quietly non-announced that Scholar search now includes U.S. federal and state case law and legal journals . Recently, the debate on open access to legal information has been raging , with some folks sticking up for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google takes on Lexis and Westlaw

  
  Reading Tea Leaves by Randy Wilson — Authority: 133
  Not quite but Google has added free case law to its Google Scholar offering.  Quickly searching this database I was struck by two things: *In terms of content, this is a limited database which could serve as a quick and cheap alternative when I need to find out something about a legal issue.  It isn’t appropriate ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Future of Education Law Information

  
  The Edjurist — Authority: 417
  Lots of current events have caused me to consider what the future of education law information will look like. Im the new technology chair for   ELA , Scott B. has been appointed to   Wests   Education Law Reporter Board , Mark Walsh (who has a   redesigned site ) and I have been talking lately, ...
  3 weeks ago

• New article on West Publishing

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  From the November 2009 issue of Twin Cities Business:  “Thomson Reuters’ Brain,” by Dave BealThe Eagan business that was once West Publishing now supplies its parent company with the intellectual firepower to outmaneuver Bloomberg and LexisNexis in the financial and legal content wars.Lede:There may be no more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bob Berring and Tom Bruce – Twin sons of different mothers

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  A couple of weeks ago our friend and hero Tim Stanley from Justia gave his terrific free-resources presentation at our Advanced Legal Research class.  As an in-class exercise the next class session, we asked the students to briefly share some aspect of what they learned from Tim’s talk.  One student wrote:I ...
  4 weeks ago

• Westlaw OnePass Passes Over the Real Problem

  
  Advocate's Studio — Authority: 467
  In an apparent effort to bring security and access to services up to the standards employed by the rest of the world, West / Thompson is now requiring users to create a OnePass Account to access any and all West / Thompson services, including Westlaw.  By using your old eleven-character password and choosing ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Unauthorized Copying and Sale by Westlaw and LexisNexis of Appellate Briefs…”

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  Earlier today, we blogged about two recent legal news items (here and here) on the copyright concerns regarding California Supreme Court appellate briefs appearing on Westlaw and LexisNexis.As a follow-up, we have posted (with permission) the full text of the letter from attorney Edmond Connor, asking the court to ...
  5 weeks ago

• Court Struggles to Balance Public Access With For-Profit Interests

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  Court Struggles to Balance Public Access With For-Profit InterestsBy Laura ErndeDaily Journal10/30/2009“Three months after an attorney complained that the California Supreme Court was giving away valuable appellate briefs to for-profit firms, the court is still trying to figureout how to get itself out of the sticky ...
  5 weeks ago

• Brief Fight Likely to End in Compromise

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 467
  From tomorrow’s (Friday’s) San Francisco Recorder:Brief Fight Likely to End in CompromiseThe RecorderBy Mike McKeeOctober 30, 2009The [California] Supreme Court sounds willing to end its practice of shipping briefs from all the state’s appellate cases to Westlaw and LexisNexis, which charge for them. An Irvine ...
  5 weeks ago

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