FastCase - https://www.fastcase.com/
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk
Recently (somewhat) bought CaseMaker – which was the darling of bar
memberships for a couple of decades
Merging with vLex – so they’re moving into the
arena of creating AI tools.
Offers case law, statutes, regs, court rules, constitutions, law review articles
They offer a way to shepardize a brief
#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Decisis #FastCase
Decisis - https://www.decisis.com/home
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk (it is in Nebraska)
I believe it's only available for 1 or 2 person firms
Created by Legal InQuery Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of RELX, parent company of
LexisNexis®.
Tiered subscription – depending on the content you need.
They offer forms, dockets, and news in addition to caselaw, statutes, codes, legislative
materials
#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Decisis #FastCase
Public Law Libraries are your best friend, if you've got one nearby.
List of public law libraries - https://publiclibraries.com/law/
California County Public Law Libraries - https://www.mylawlibrary.org/law-libraries.htm
LA County Law Library – https://www.lalawlibrary.org/
2nd largest law library in the country!
A library card will get you access to databases (within the library), and California Court of Appeals briefs
Internet Archive Scholar - https://scholar.archive.org/
Cost: Free
25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet
Archive.
Includes digitized copies of 18th century journals through the latest Open
Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
Judy Records - https://www.judyrecords.com/
Cost: Free
Boasts 100x more cases than Google Scholar and 10x more cases than PACER
Free full-text search of all United States patents from 1/1/1976 to 07/01/2022
Con: Search engine either basic, or not intuitive...haven't made up my mind on that yet.
Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project - https://case.law/
Cost: Free
Includes all official, book-published state and federal US case law
'Book published' is the key phrase to keep in mind... Not sure how this plays with born-digital content.
Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/
Cost: Free
Federal appellate opinions, Tax & Bankruptcy court opinions, State courts, Scholarly
articles & reports.
Click ‘Select Courts’ to refine your search
Tips for using Google Scholar for Legal Research can be found here:
https://guides.loc.gov/free-case-law/google-scholar
#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Google #GoogleScholar
Mit Google Scholar können Sie ganz einfach nach wissenschaftlicher Literatur suchen. Sie können nicht nur viele verschiedene Fachrichtungen, sondern auch unterschiedliche Quellen auswählen, wie beispielsweise Fachartikel, Diplom- und Doktorarbeiten, Bücher, Zusammenfassungen oder Gerichtsgutachten.
CourtListener - https://www.courtlistener.com/
Cost: Free
Free access to federal cases and state appellate cases
You can set up alerts for ongoing cases (requires you to set up free account)
If you use PACER, consider installing the RECAP extension in your browser. If you are a researcher, you can search millions of fed
eral filings in the RECAP Archive.
#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #CourtListener #RECAP #PACER
Create alerts, search for and browse the latest court opinions, PACER documents, judges, and oral arguments. Updated automatically with the latest court documents. An initiative of Free Law Project.
Bummed about the buyout of Casetext? It might be time to explore other resources. I'll post my links to alternatives here. #AltResearch
FindLaw - https://www.findlaw.com/
Cost: Free
Includes:
Federal law and regs, US Courts of Appeals opinions, State-level codes and statutes
Also includes summaries of laws organized by state and topic
Caselaw on Findlaw - can be accessed here https://caselaw.findlaw.com/
@AustinB I recently did a deep dive into some other resources... I'll post some the info and links and will tag the posts with #AltResearch
Stand by!
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BoydstonLaw
