Joining the movement to make online legal documents more accessible, Google has introduced a new tool that indexes and searches a vast array of federal, appellate and state court decisions by case title, keyword, topics and other criteria.The search giant announced this week that its Google Scholar tool — a search portal for scholarly literature — now includes a separate search function for legal opinion.

LibX is a browser plugin for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides direct access to Pierce Law's Library MELcat Library holdings. Many of us use it all day long as it avoids the need to go to the home page of the Library or MELCat. Give it a try. You may have to click Allow if Firefox asks permission to install it. Just say yes to LibX.

What is the Fact Based Research course about?

Fact Based Research is a course under the Law Practice Information Literacy umbrella and covers non-legal research skills that are critical to today’s legal practice. Students learn practice ready skills not covered in Legal Skills or other research courses and the course guides students in learning information literacy beyond Westlaw/Lexis.

Topics include:

Business research including newspaper research and corporation filings

Jury Verdict Reports

Medical Research

RECAP

Better Access to Public Court Records

RECAP is a free extension for Firefox that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. It: