Last week, I saw a Tweet about the United States Supreme Court granting certiorari in a construction dispute … and I thought it had to be an April Fools’ Day joke because they never take construction cases on appeal. So, being quite the jokester, I naturally sent out the following Tweet:
Well, the joke is on
It has been almost three years since the giant (…Google…) joined the legal research playing field with Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all the other law-related databases. Today’s post is about how a Google Scholar search can be used for legal research.
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Heads up Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all you other law-related databases. There is another giant in the field of legal research. Last night, Google launched a new feature on Google Scholar that makes 80+ years of US federal caselaw and 50+ years of US state caselaw searchable and readable. Here’s what you may find: 