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Free Law Project is a United States federal 501(c)(3) Oakland-based [1] nonprofit that provides free access to primary legal materials, develops legal research tools, and supports academic research on legal corpora. [2] Free Law Project has several initiatives that collect and share legal information, including the largest [3] collection of ...
Professional lawyers rely on computer-assisted legal research in order to properly understand the status of the law and so to act effectively in the best interest of their client. They may also consult the text of case judgements and statutes specifically, as well as wider academic comment, in order to form the basis of (or response to) an appeal.
The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is the international organization devoted to providing free online access to legal information such as case law, legislation, treaties, law reform proposals and legal scholarship.
The Case Matrix has motivated and informed the development of software such as I-DOC. [20] The Case Matrix application has also inspired the name of the 'Case Matrix Network' which is the department of the Centre for International Law Research and Policy that is responsible for knowledge transfer and capacity development activities. [21]
This category contains articles regarding sources of legal research, ... Case law reporters (1 C, 6 P) ... Free Access to Law Movement; G.
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.
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."
Many major legal research materials may be found online, through both free services, such as Law Library Resource Xchange, PACER (law), and Google Scholar, and commercial services for Computer-assisted legal research. Law dictionaries can be found in many libraries, at free online dictionaries, and from online commercial services.