Legal Research Tools


Oct
04

Have you been hearing all the buzz about legal analytics on Westlaw Edge and Lexis Advance? Don’t forget that you also have access to legal analytics platform Lex Machina! Lex Machina , a LexisNexis research tool, provides litigation and business data for legal professionals. The tool harvests data from a variety of resources to enable


Sep
26

You’ve heard of The Bluebook. You’ve heard of The Redbook. (Probably.) But have you heard of The Indigo Book? If not, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 ! The Indigo Book is an open system of citation that had its beta-release in 2016. It was created by a group of NYU law students and professor,


Apr
30

This post is my second in a series about Casetext. If you didn’t get a chance to read my first post, check it out here. In this post, I discuss my experience using Casetext’s Case Analysis Research Assistant (CARA). CARA is an artificial intelligence research tool that examines a brief, complaint, or memo you’ve uploaded and returns


Dec
06

Frustrated by receiving an error message when clicking on a link to a document or a website? Sometimes documents have been taken down from websites and website URLs “break.” But, there is a tool you can try that may help you recover the past. The Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization that provides free access


Nov
14

Federal court records and briefs research can be time-intensive and potentially intimidating for a newer attorney. When a lawsuit drags on for years in federal court, a huge paper trail is created that can make effective research in dockets even more complicated. For law students, dockets can also be intimidating because of the variety of


Nov
09

UNC School of Law offers a course in the spring semester titled “Land Use Control” (Law 290) that covers the “authority for and basic structure of land use regulations (including zoning districts and permits, subdivision, and innovative development review schemes).” Students interested in real property and commercial transactions have found the course to be particularly


Sep
18

On September 17, 2018, the Library of Congress announced the launch of a new website, sending librarians, open-government activists, and countless others into paroxysms of frenzied excitement. Why, you might ask? Let one of those librarians explain. About the Congressional Research Service For more than one hundred years, an office within the Library of Congress

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