Legal research is imperative to the practice of law. Depending on where you are in your legal career, there could be multiple reasons to brush up on the basics of legal research. You could be a: Law student or recent graduate preparing for your career Seasoned...
Lexis+ ™ and Westlaw Edge ® are arguably the two most well-known legal research services for attorneys. When it comes to evaluating them, however, there are several important distinctions. LexisNexis ® was the first to put legal research online and—true...
This post was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2023. When it comes to being efficient with time and resources, litigators from small law firms must generally be a bit more adaptive than those from larger firms. For this reason,...
This post was originally published in May 2020 and updated in April 2023. Remember those comic book superheroes with X-ray vision? Well, the Lexis service doesn’t give you capabilities that powerful (yet!), but it does have some handy online legal research...
This post was originally published in January 2020 and was updated in March 2023. When citing a case to point to precedent in your favor, relying on good law is critically important. That’s what makes Shepard’s ® Citations Service so valuable...
This post was originally published in April 2019 and was updated in April 2023. It’s critical to use the right online legal research tools to help you conduct thorough legal analysis, answer legal questions and increase productivity. But what tools work...