Now that the phase-in of Lexis Advance is complete, the research service has added some foreign law primary sources to its collection. Like other commercial research services, Lexis offers access primarily to the law of countries that are significant trade partners of the United States. For instance, there is extensive case law coverage for Canada, …
Bloomberg Law has introduced a new feature to make legal research more integrated and comprehensive! The legal database platform has developed Smart Code. The Smart Code tab is located along the top of the page of the statute and allows you to quickly view opinions discussing the provision that you are researching, if opinions are …
Westlaw has long provided access to most British caselaw, but it has not offered those cases in the PDF format needed by citecheckers. Recently, though, Westlaw has begun to include PDF versions of the two most-cited British case reporters, Law Reports and English Reports. The Law Reports is a series of the most significant U.K. …
Govinfo.gov is the GPO’s new site that is currently in beta.The site launched in February 2016. In July, some new features and additional content were added. In their July 2016 Release Notes, Govinfo highlights these new features. Users can browse the collection by Government Author. The authors are separated into the Legislative Branch, Executive Branch, …
On Friday, April 15 Westlaw informed users across the nation that various hard-copy reporters and their online counterparts contained errors. Some 600 cases published since November 2014 erroneously omitted small portions of case text. In March, Thomson Reuters became aware that small portions of text were missing in a number of new cases posted to …
Bloomberg Law’s Litigation Analytics, which is currently in beta testing, provides law students and practitioners with the ability to research the federal litigation histories of major companies, identifies the law firms representing those companies in the majority of their federal litigation needs, and also provides researchers with another means for locating dockets when the only …
Earlier this month, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) announced that a new, redesigned and expanded platform – govinfo – will replace FDsys as the go-to source for federal primary law in 2017. The site is available at https://www.govinfo.gov and is now accessible online in beta form, giving researchers the chance to familiarize themselves with …
While many legal research resources have traditionally been geared toward litigation-based areas of practice, Bloomberg Law is now offering new materials available for transactional lawyers as well. Several types of research tools can assist the transactional lawyer forming a business or doing a deal. Traditionally, business and finance dictionaries and glossaries define terms of art. …
