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Alternatives to Lexis & Westlaw Prof. Carolyn Broering-Jacobs’ Legal Writing Class Feb. 2011

Alternatives to Lexis & Westlaw Prof. Carolyn Broering-Jacobs’ Legal Writing Class Feb. 2011. Low Cost Databases. Stripped down versions of Lexis/WL. Casemaker –Free w/ free student OSBA membership Fastcase – Free w/ Cleve bar membership. Lois Law – C-M has, CLL has

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Alternatives to Lexis & Westlaw Prof. Carolyn Broering-Jacobs’ Legal Writing Class Feb. 2011

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  1. Alternatives to Lexis & WestlawProf. Carolyn Broering-Jacobs’ Legal Writing ClassFeb. 2011

  2. Low Cost Databases

  3. Stripped down versions of Lexis/WL • Casemaker –Free w/ free student OSBA membership • Fastcase – Free w/ Cleve bar membership. • Lois Law – C-M has, CLL has • Versus Law – Free to Law students

  4. Access to Low Cost Databases • Library Website, Electronic Resources Page. • Casemaker: ohiobar.org. Free with FREE student membership to the Ohio State Bar Association OR Librarians can sign you in • Fastcase – fastcase.com.

  5. Stripped Down Versions of Lexis/WL What does Lexis/Westlaw have these do not? • Editorial features – headnotes, annotations • Practice Books (except Loislaw) • Law Review articles • Better search mechanisms and coverage

  6. Stripped Down Versions of Lexis and Westlaw • Casemaker – best coverage for Ohio. Odd search syntax • Fastcase – Natural Language, Visual Charts • Loislaw - Best terms and connectors, field searching. Treatises. Alert searches. • VersusLaw – Cheapest, worst coverage

  7. Contents

  8. Contents

  9. Searching

  10. Searching

  11. Issue= Whether in Ohio, two people can marry if they are the opposite sex because one person had gender reassignment surgery, and that person’s birth certificate was amended to reflect the sex change? • Search = “birth certificate” (transsexual, transgender, “sex change”) marri*

  12. Casemaker Session • Part of Research Certificate Seminars • Wednesday, 3/2, 3pm-4pm • Register by emailing Laura Ray

  13. Temporary Login • username: CMLaw • password: fastcase

  14. “birth certificate” AND (transgender OR transsexual OR “sex change”) AND marri* • Natural language – birth certificate marriage transsexual

  15. Fastcase Webinar • Thursday, 3/24, 4:30pm-5:30pm –– LB Room 208 or remotely via your own computer • Contact Laura Ray to register

  16. Primary & Secondary – Specific Subjects • BNA • CCH • RIA Checkpoint • See Electronic Resources page for links. • NOT low cost, but not charged back to clients

  17. BNA • Current Awareness PLUS • Libraries: Primary & Secondary Sources

  18. BNA Current Awareness • Articles, cases • May contain past 12 years • ex. U.S. Law Week/Supreme Court Today ; Daily Labor Report (DLR expensive!). • Sign up for BNA Current Awareness Services

  19. BNA Libraries • Cases, statutes, regs • Practice books • Forms • ex. Labor and Employment Law Library , Intellectual Property Library or ABA/BNA lawyers' manual on professional conduct

  20. CCH Intelliconnect • Both Primary and Secondary Sources • Topics Covered:AntitrustBanking Corporate GovernanceHealth Care and Medicaid/Medicare Labor & Employment, PensionsSecurities

  21. CCH • Boolean searching, w/n etc. • Federated Searching • Indexes • Current awareness emails – Sign up Instructions • Known for their fifty state charts

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