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How to Use Google Scholar for Legal Research

Clio

Legal research is one of the most challenging aspects of the legal profession. In the digital era, it is also a task that cannot be adequately performed without a legal search engine of some kind. The key to effective use of Google Scholar for legal research is knowing its strengths and limitations.

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LexisNexis Parent RELX Quietly Launches Legal Research Service for Bar Associations and Small Firms

LawSites

A new legal research service has quietly launched, targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms, but what is not obvious from the service’s website is that the company behind it was formed as a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. “It was created by Legal InQuery Solutions Inc.,

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The Five Most Momentous Legal Tech Fails

Above the Law - Technology

ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. But the outlook for ROSS changed almost overnight when it was sued by Thomson Reuters in 2020 on allegations that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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As It Continues to Expand Beyond Legal Research, Bloomberg Law Acquires Legal Project Management Platform Dashboard Legal

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Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal , a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market. ”

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South Carolina Damages: A Different Type of “Blue Book”

The Barrister

2009 & Supp. D3 S68 2009. Law Library Research Fellow Charleston School of Law Juris Doctor Candidate, May 2023 South Carolina Damages can be found as a print library book or on Lexis. South Carolina Damages (James L. and Edward J. Westbrook eds., 2017) – SC KFS 1890.D3 Dante Meade Sol Blatt, Jr.

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The South Carolina State Flag

The Barrister

Enzwell, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Enzwell, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file: Flag of South Carolina (January 1861).svg., Law library. A few are: The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina , by Jack Bass and W. Scott Poole, SC F269.B269

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How to Increase Law Firm Profitability

Centerbase

Profits per equity partner are down for the first time since 2009. Demand has also dropped for everyone except midsize firms, where clients are flocking because they want quality legal services without the major firm price tag. Client payments and realization rates are down too.