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Subscription-based services include Westlaw, LexisNexis, JustCite, HeinOnline, Bloomberg Law, Lex Intell, VLex and LexEur. As of 2015, the commercial market grossed $8 billion. [3] Free services include OpenJurist, Google Scholar, AltLaw, Ravel Law, [3] WIPO Lex, Law Delta and the databases of the Free Access to Law Movement.
They are considered one of the primary reasons that many attorneys subscribe to Westlaw instead of its competitor, Lexis. [ citation needed ] The print versions of the Rutter Group treatises were historically distributed as interfiled looseleaf services in ring binders , meaning that only the pages that had changed during a particular year were ...
The judge also had concerns about the Thomson and West products ordered to be divested through a sale to Lexis, [7] primarily statutory and case law publications of Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, such as United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition and United States Code Service, [8] but those sales were ultimately approved.
Bloomberg Law is a subscription-based service that uses data analytics and artificial intelligence for online legal research. The service, which Bloomberg L.P. introduced in 2009, provides legal content, proprietary company information and news information to attorneys, law students, and other legal professionals. [1]
[15] At the time of HeinOnline’s inception, Lexis and Westlaw did not offer access to older law reviews, but only to those published since the 1980s. Thus, HOL initially envisioned itself mainly as a historical archive, but this changed due to market demands by professors, scholars, and law librarians, who wanted access to HOL's scans of the ...
Legislative history is used to find what is known as the "legislative intent," or purpose behind statutory language. Again, legislative history documents may be found both in print in law libraries and government documents libraries, as well as in online formats such as Lexis and Westlaw.
Most major legal search providers now implement some sort of classification search, such as Westlaw's “Natural Language” [14] or LexisNexis' Headnote [15] searches. Additionally, both of these services allow browsing of their classifications, via Westlaw's West Key Numbers [14] or Lexis' Headnotes. [15]
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.