#AltResearch

FastCase - https://www.fastcase.com/
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk

Recently (somewhat) bought CaseMaker – which was the darling of bar
memberships for a couple of decades

Merging with vLex – so they’re moving into the
arena of creating AI tools.

Offers case law, statutes, regs, court rules, constitutions, law review articles

They offer a way to shepardize a brief

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Decisis #FastCase

#AltResearch

Decisis - https://www.decisis.com/home
Cost: Subscription - may be a bar perk (it is in Nebraska)

I believe it's only available for 1 or 2 person firms

Created by Legal InQuery Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of RELX, parent company of
LexisNexis®.

Tiered subscription – depending on the content you need.

They offer forms, dockets, and news in addition to caselaw, statutes, codes, legislative
materials

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Decisis #FastCase

#AltResearch

Public Law Libraries are your best friend, if you've got one nearby.

List of public law libraries - https://publiclibraries.com/law/

California County Public Law Libraries - https://www.mylawlibrary.org/law-libraries.htm

LA County Law Library – https://www.lalawlibrary.org/
2nd largest law library in the country!

A library card will get you access to databases (within the library), and California Court of Appeals briefs

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database

#AltResearch

Internet Archive Scholar - https://scholar.archive.org/
Cost: Free

25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet
Archive. Includes digitized copies of 18th century journals through the latest Open
Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database

#AltResearch

Judy Records - https://www.judyrecords.com/
Cost: Free

Boasts 100x more cases than Google Scholar and 10x more cases than PACER

Free full-text search of all United States patents from 1/1/1976 to 07/01/2022

Con: Search engine either basic, or not intuitive...haven't made up my mind on that yet.

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database

#AltResearch

Harvard’s Caselaw Access Project - https://case.law/
Cost: Free

Includes all official, book-published state and federal US case law

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database

#AltResearch

Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/
Cost: Free

Federal appellate opinions, Tax & Bankruptcy court opinions, State courts, Scholarly
articles & reports.

Click ‘Select Courts’ to refine your search

Tips for using Google Scholar for Legal Research can be found here:
https://guides.loc.gov/free-case-law/google-scholar

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #Google #GoogleScholar

#AltResearch

CourtListener - https://www.courtlistener.com/
Cost: Free

Free access to federal cases and state appellate cases

You can set up alerts for ongoing cases (requires you to set up free account)

If you use PACER, consider installing the RECAP extension in your browser. If you are a researcher, you can search millions of fed
eral filings in the RECAP Archive.

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database #CourtListener #RECAP #PACER

Bummed about the buyout of Casetext? It might be time to explore other resources. I'll post my links to alternatives here. #AltResearch

FindLaw - https://www.findlaw.com/
Cost: Free

Includes:
Federal law and regs, US Courts of Appeals opinions, State-level codes and statutes

Also includes summaries of laws organized by state and topic

Caselaw on Findlaw - can be accessed here https://caselaw.findlaw.com/

#AltResearch #Law #LawFedi #LegalResearch #Database

@AustinB I recently did a deep dive into some other resources... I'll post some the info and links and will tag the posts with #AltResearch

Stand by!
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