Yesterday marked the first day of operation for vLex Canada Open, the first phase of a major new legal research suite for Canada. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami-based legal publisher that […]. The post First Phase Launches of New Canadian and Global Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
New from Elgar: Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Isabella Alexander and H. Elgar Publishing, 2017) (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property Series). Tomás Gómez-Arostegui, eds., There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin MORE
One of Canada’s oldest legal publishers is about to launch what could turn out to be the country’s most cutting-edge and comprehensive legal research suite. The post Plans Unveiled for Major New Canadian Legal Research Platforms appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Last November, Maritime Law Book Ltd., a Canadian case law publisher founded in 1969, came under new ownership, led by a new CEO, Colin Lachance, the former president and CEO […]. MORE
Since at least 2013, the website of Judicata has been teasing visitors with the promise of a better legal research service. The post After Five Years in Stealth Mode, Judicata Reveals Its Legal Research Service appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. “We’re mapping the legal genome to help you better understand the law,” said its home page. The San Francisco-based company was started even earlier, in November 2011. MORE
If your first order of business today is researching Canadian immigration law, you may be able to do it on an all-new research platform. The legal research company Fastcase has begun a broad rollout of its all-new version, Fastcase […]. The new start page displays information in colored tiles, similar to the style of Windows 10. The post Fastcase Begins Broad Rollout Of Its All-New Fastcase 7 Platform appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. General Fastcase MORE
My latest “Ambrogi on Tech” column for the ABA Journal, 2 new websites offer platform for crowdsourced legal research, looks at Casetext and Mootus, two sites that bring crowdsourcing to legal research, but in somewhat different ways. The post Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
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He kept a log of every case he briefed, every memo he wrote, and every bit of research he performed. Called CitePin , the idea of it is to enable every lawyer to instantly access everything he or she has ever written or researched. MORE
Academic Social Research and Journalism in the European Union's Privacy Framework. David Erdos, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, has published Freedom of Expression Turned on its Head? Here is the abstract. This article argues that MORE
16, I will be moderating a free webinar that will look at how “big data” analytics are being used to provide new windows into legal research. The post Join Me for a Free Webinar: Using Big Data Analytics for Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. On Tuesday, Dec. Specifically, we will look at Ravel Law and PacerPro, two tools that are providing new ways of looking at case law and case information. Ravel — […]. MORE
Legal professionals have lots of options for fee-based legal research services these days, but the most popular among them all is WestlawNext, according to the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Of all lawyers who use fee-based online legal research services, 28 percent say the one they use most often is WestlawNext. And as if […] The post For Paid Legal Research, WestlawNext is Most Popular, ABA Survey Says appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
Carroll, American University College of Law, has published Sharing Research Data and Intellectual Property Law: A Primer in volume 13 of PLOS Biology (Issue 8) (2015). Sharing research data by depositing it in connection Michael W. MORE
Elizabeth Adeney, Deakin University Law School, is publishing Research Collaborations and ‘Authorship’: Differentiating Legal from Management Norms in Australian Business Law Review, volume 44 (2016). MORE
The legal research service Casetext is announcing today that it has closed on a $12 million Series B funding round. The post Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Jake Heller, founder and CEO, and Laura Safdie, chief operating officer and general counsel. Excluding e-discovery companies, it is one of the largest investments in a legal technology startup ever. The only two larger that I could […]. MORE
A new website, BriefMine , aims to help lawyers mine a collection of legal briefs for nuggets they can use in their own research and arguments. Here is how the site describes itself: BriefMine is a database of legal briefs and opinions powered by natural-language search that offers a technologically advanced platform for conducting in-depth legal research. MORE
Last month, I wrote about Judicata, a legal research that had just emerged into public view after five years of development in stealth mode. With $8 million in backing from some big-name investors, including PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel and Box founders Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, Judicata aims to deliver a legal research platform that […]. The post Judicata Brings A New Dimension to Legal Research: Color appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
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Legal research company Fastcase today announced that Steve Errick, who was most recently vice president and managing director for research information at LexisNexis, will join the company on July 1 as chief operating officer. Steve Errick Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO, told me that Errick is being brought on to help lead the growth and expansion […]. MORE
A convergence of three recent developments in legal research suggests that we may be entering what Ed Walters, the CEO of legal research service Fastcase, described in a tweet as “a golden age of legal research innovation.” The post Are We In A Golden Age of Legal Research Innovation? MORE
Imagine if you could combine a full-text case law library for research with crowdsourced editing and annotating in the style of Wikipedia and user rankings of annotations and references in the style of a site such as Digg? That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides [.] The post New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
In major legal-industry news, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced its acquisition of Ravel Law, the legal research, analytics and visualization platform that empowers users to contextualize and interpret large amounts of legal information to uncover valuable insights. MORE
A judge quashes a subpoena on outtakes, ruling that the filmmakers were independent, and that the city has failed to demonstrate relevancy and the unavailability of information through alternative sources. read more. Movies THR, Esq. Business MORE
The legal research service Ravel Law today announced the launch of a new feature, Firm Analytics, that provides insights on law firms’ litigation histories that can be used for competitive intelligence and research into firms’ litigation activity. MORE
Bloomberg Law today released what it describes as “the next evolution&# of its legal research platform. One thing that is not changing is Bloomberg Law’s flat-fee, all-inclusive pricing — something the company believes is key to differentiating it from the big-two legal research services, Westlaw and LexisNexis. Even so, Andreozzi asserts that such secondary materials account for no more than 10 percent of all legal research. MORE
ROSS Intelligence, the artificial intelligence legal research platform, outperforms Westlaw and LexisNexis in finding relevant authorities, in user satisfaction and confidence, and in research efficiency, and is virtually certain to deliver a positive return on investment. These are among the findings of benchmark report being released today by the technology research and advisory company Blue […]. MORE
The Pew Research Center has released some new information about Americans' attitudes toward the news media. Specifically, Pew notes that Democrats are more likely to believe that the media tends to act as a check on politicians (nearly 90 percent MORE
Can Twitter be a legitimate source of legal research and scholarship? To fulfill the requirement that he produce a scholarly note addressing a legal issue, he has written a paper that he researched and sourced almost entirely […] The post Experimental Law Review Note Uses Twitter As Its Research Source appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. As an associate editor of the Michigan State Law Review, 3L Patrick M. Ellis decided to find out. MORE
For anyone researching the topic, however, you should note that the list is incomplete. My research has found three states not listed on the LTRC site — Connecticut, Florida and Virginia — which brings the total number of […]. MORE
Back in January 2010, this blog had an exclusive first look as Fastcase was about to launch its app to let iPhone users research cases and statutes for free, directly on their devices. Tomorrow that changes, as Fastcase will release an Android version of its legal research app. MORE
For those of you not able to make that panel, and even those of you who are planning to attend, a new source of information that provides a very good summary of the many music licensing issues now being considered by Congress and the courts is a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service released last week, available here. The legal issues surrounding the use of music in broadcast and digital media is one of those topics that is usually enough to make eyes glaze over. MORE
New York is demanding "all recordings of everyone interviewed for the film who has any direct knowledge of the Central Park criminal case." read more. Movies THR, Esq MORE
A new website called Tabulaw hopes to simplify the task of legal research and writing. The site’s premise is that legal research tools are expensive, fragmented and redundant. Once you have done your research and you are ready to start writing, you can do that from within Tabulaw also. MORE
” The site would focus on using crowdsourcing to enhance access to legal research. “By […] The post After Aborted Launch, Jurify is Back with Research Tool for Transactional Lawyers appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
Legal research is often a solitary pursuit, with lawyers hunched over their computers or law books in absolute silence, sometimes with looks of panic or confusion on their faces. MORE
Bent Flyvbjerg, Said Business School, University of Oxford, has published Why Mass Media Matter to Planning Research: The Case of Megaprojects, in Journal of Planning Education and Research 1 (2012). Here is the abstract. This article asks how planning scholarship MORE
The free legal research site CourtListener rolled out a notable enhancement this week, adding oral arguments from the Supreme Court and nine federal appellate courts to its collection of primary legal materials. The post CourtListener Adds Oral Arguments to its Free Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
The post Book Serves as Guide to Free and Low-Cost Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. I am a cheapskate. I am not ashamed to admit it. That is what first drove me to explore the Internet more than 20 years ago, back when many lawyers still had not even heard of it. Having just gone back into private practice at the time, I was in search of free resources for […]. MORE
The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017. This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform. Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. “By kicking off this process […]. The post It’s Last Rites for Lexis.com, As LexisNexis Sets Date for Shutdown appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
LexisNexis today is formally launching its next-generation legal research platform, Lexis Advance. In October 2010, I wrote about the roll-out of Lexis Advance for Solos , the flat-rate legal research platform targeted at one- and two-lawyer firms. MORE
Back in October, I wrote a post here about Lexis Advance for Solos , the new, flat-rate legal research platform from LexisNexis for one- and two-lawyer firms. MORE
From the New York Times: Dolby International is suing Research In Motion (RIM) for patent infringement over what Dolby says is RIM's use of Dolby's "patented digital audio compression technology" in RIM's popular smart phones and tablets. Read one of MORE
Fresh on the heels of Casetext’s legal research assistant CARA being named new product of the year, Casetext is today introducing an expansion of CARA that adds briefs to its suggested results. The post Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. MORE
LexisNexis is today announcing the launch of Lexis Answers, a feature that brings artificial intelligence to the Lexis Advance legal research platform. With Lexis Answers, a researcher can ask a natural-language question and get back the single-best answer in the form of what Lexis is calling a Lexis Answer Card. General LexisNexis Ravel Law Research ROSS MORE
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Yesterday marked the first day of operation for vLex Canada Open, the first phase of a major new legal research suite for Canada. is launching the research suite in partnership with two other legal publishers: vLex, a Barcelona and Miami-based legal publisher that […]. The post First Phase Launches of New Canadian and Global Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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The legal research service Casetext is announcing today that it has closed on a $12 million Series B funding round. The post Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Jake Heller, founder and CEO, and Laura Safdie, chief operating officer and general counsel. Excluding e-discovery companies, it is one of the largest investments in a legal technology startup ever. The only two larger that I could […].
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One of Canada’s oldest legal publishers is about to launch what could turn out to be the country’s most cutting-edge and comprehensive legal research suite. The post Plans Unveiled for Major New Canadian Legal Research Platforms appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. Last November, Maritime Law Book Ltd., a Canadian case law publisher founded in 1969, came under new ownership, led by a new CEO, Colin Lachance, the former president and CEO […].
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Since at least 2013, the website of Judicata has been teasing visitors with the promise of a better legal research service. The post After Five Years in Stealth Mode, Judicata Reveals Its Legal Research Service appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. “We’re mapping the legal genome to help you better understand the law,” said its home page. The San Francisco-based company was started even earlier, in November 2011.
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Can Twitter be a legitimate source of legal research and scholarship? To fulfill the requirement that he produce a scholarly note addressing a legal issue, he has written a paper that he researched and sourced almost entirely […] The post Experimental Law Review Note Uses Twitter As Its Research Source appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. As an associate editor of the Michigan State Law Review, 3L Patrick M. Ellis decided to find out.
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LexisNexis today is formally launching its next-generation legal research platform, Lexis Advance. In October 2010, I wrote about the roll-out of Lexis Advance for Solos , the flat-rate legal research platform targeted at one- and two-lawyer firms.
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Imagine if you could combine a full-text case law library for research with crowdsourced editing and annotating in the style of Wikipedia and user rankings of annotations and references in the style of a site such as Digg? That, roughly speaking, is the idea behind Casetext, an innovative legal research site launched this week that provides [.] The post New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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LexisNexis is today announcing the launch of Lexis Answers, a feature that brings artificial intelligence to the Lexis Advance legal research platform. With Lexis Answers, a researcher can ask a natural-language question and get back the single-best answer in the form of what Lexis is calling a Lexis Answer Card. General LexisNexis Ravel Law Research ROSS
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Legal professionals have lots of options for fee-based legal research services these days, but the most popular among them all is WestlawNext, according to the latest ABA Legal Technology Survey Report. Of all lawyers who use fee-based online legal research services, 28 percent say the one they use most often is WestlawNext. And as if […] The post For Paid Legal Research, WestlawNext is Most Popular, ABA Survey Says appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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16, I will be moderating a free webinar that will look at how “big data” analytics are being used to provide new windows into legal research. The post Join Me for a Free Webinar: Using Big Data Analytics for Legal Research appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites. On Tuesday, Dec. Specifically, we will look at Ravel Law and PacerPro, two tools that are providing new ways of looking at case law and case information. Ravel — […].
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The free legal research site CourtListener rolled out a notable enhancement this week, adding oral arguments from the Supreme Court and nine federal appellate courts to its collection of primary legal materials. The post CourtListener Adds Oral Arguments to its Free Research Site appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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” The site would focus on using crowdsourcing to enhance access to legal research. “By […] The post After Aborted Launch, Jurify is Back with Research Tool for Transactional Lawyers appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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A new website, BriefMine , aims to help lawyers mine a collection of legal briefs for nuggets they can use in their own research and arguments. Here is how the site describes itself: BriefMine is a database of legal briefs and opinions powered by natural-language search that offers a technologically advanced platform for conducting in-depth legal research.
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He kept a log of every case he briefed, every memo he wrote, and every bit of research he performed. Called CitePin , the idea of it is to enable every lawyer to instantly access everything he or she has ever written or researched.
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For those of you not able to make that panel, and even those of you who are planning to attend, a new source of information that provides a very good summary of the many music licensing issues now being considered by Congress and the courts is a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service released last week, available here. The legal issues surrounding the use of music in broadcast and digital media is one of those topics that is usually enough to make eyes glaze over.
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The legacy legal research service will be leaving this world at the end of 2017. This week, LexisNexis began notifying Lexis.com customers that it will be shutting down the service over the next 12 months and moving them to the newer Lexis Advance research platform. Prepare last rites for Lexis.com. “By kicking off this process […]. The post It’s Last Rites for Lexis.com, As LexisNexis Sets Date for Shutdown appeared first on Robert Ambrogi's LawSites.
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Legal research company Fastcase today announced that Steve Errick, who was most recently vice president and managing director for research information at LexisNexis, will join the company on July 1 as chief operating officer. Steve Errick Ed Walters, Fastcase CEO, told me that Errick is being brought on to help lead the growth and expansion […].
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