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How to Use Google Scholar for Legal Research

Clio

Although there are numerous commercially-available research platforms, Google Scholar case law continues to be a valuable legal resource available to lawyers, law students, and the general public, free of charge. Here we delve into how Google Scholar case law works and how best to utilize it.

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Changing Legal Practice Areas? Here is Everything You Need to Know

Clio

With a willingness to learn about an entirely new area of law, you can change to the legal practice area of your choice. Of course, there’s more to switching practice areas in legal than reading up on case law. Study Switching practice areas in law means you’ll be a student all over again. Get ready to study!

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Who Owns Social Media Accounts?–In re Bang Energy Drinks

Eric Goldman

The employee-protection social media laws have mostly faded from memory, but they did not resolve when a social media account was the employer’s or employee’s. A decade late, we are still waiting for the case law to answer that question. The company fired its CEO, Mr. Owoc, and is now in Chapter 11.

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The B r, The Searcher, and The Researcher – Damien Riehl on the Dynamic Shift in How the Legal Profession Will Leverage Standards and Artificial Intelligence

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

It works like Amazon’s product tags, where a user can search for a specific area of law, such as patent law, and then choose between various services such as advice, registration, transactional, dispute, or bankruptcy services. And then I maybe licensed the patent, that’s the transactional service. That’s a different tack.

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News You Can Use: A Robot Paralegal?

Advocate's Studio

Code-named Ross, the AI uses IBM’s Jeopardy -nailing Watson to scour massive amounts of case law and legal docs in seconds to produce answers to legal questions. bankruptcy law and “he” is being piloted not just at Dentons, but also at a few other elite firms in the US.

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The 9 Best Free Legal Research Tools And Databases For Lawyers

CaseFox

Fastcase can provide firms and legal professionals online access to various cases, case law, statutes, amendments, rules & regulations. Not just that, it also provides information about court laws, constitutions and law review articles, etc. These institutes publish source law through their own search engine.

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What Does a Court Clerk Do?

Clio

They analyze legal precedents, statutes, and case law to provide valuable insights that help inform legal decisions. These include: District courts : These courts handle a wide range of cases, including civil, family, and juvenile matters. Bankruptcy courts: Specializing in insolvency and debt restructuring cases.

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