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2. Westlaw - Wikipedia

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   Westlaw is an online legal research service and proprietary database for lawyers and legal professionals available in over 60 countries. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.

3. LexisNexis - Wikipedia

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   LexisNexis office in Markham, a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. LexisNexis is owned by RELX (formerly known as Reed Elsevier). [7]According to Trudi Bellardo Hahn and Charles P. Bourne, LexisNexis (originally founded as LEXIS) is historically significant because it was the first of the early information services to both envision and actually bring about a future in which large populations ...

4. Computer-assisted legal research - Wikipedia

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   Computer-assisted legal research ( CALR) [ 1] or computer-based legal research is a mode of legal research that uses databases of court opinions, statutes, court documents, and secondary material. Electronic databases make large bodies of case law easily available. Databases also have additional benefits, such as Boolean searches, evaluating ...

5. Shepard's Citations - Wikipedia

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   In March 1999, LexisNexis released an online version, named Shepard's Citation Service. [7] While print versions of Shepard's remain in use, their use is declining. Although learning to Shepardize in print was once a rite of passage for all first-year law students, [2] the Shepard's Citations booklets in hardcopy format are cryptic compared to the online version, because of the need to cram as ...

6. West American Digest System - Wikipedia

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   The West American Digest System is a system of identifying points of law from reported cases and organizing them by topic and key number. The system was developed by West Publishing to organize the entire body of American law. This extensive taxonomy makes the process of doing case law legal research less time consuming as it directs the ...

7. Legal research - Wikipedia

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   Legal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation." [1]

8. Legal information retrieval - Wikipedia

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   Legal information retrieval is the science of information retrieval applied to legal text, including legislation, case law, and scholarly works. [1] Accurate legal information retrieval is important to provide access to the law to laymen and legal professionals. Its importance has increased because of the vast and quickly increasing amount of ...

9. Case law - Wikipedia

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   Case law. Case law, also used interchangeably with common law, is a law that is based on precedents, that is the judicial decisions from previous cases, rather than law based on constitutions, statutes, or regulations. Case law uses the detailed facts of a legal case that have been resolved by courts or similar tribunals.