Legal research via Google.

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Barbara Dillon Hillas

…I am lulled into complacency by the simple fact that Google does what it does so well. And so it is with Google’s entry into the legal research field with its announcement yesterday that Google Scholar now allows users to search full-text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state appellate and trial courts. As you would expect from Google, the search interface is seamless and simple. Search by case name, lawyer name, citation or any other term. Cases include internal page numbers and internal citations are hyperlinked. A “how cited” tab shows a case’s subsequent history.

It is not just legal opinions… I was looking for some general information, and was able to retrieve articles that pointed exactly to what I needed.

About Barbara Dillon Hillas

Mother of global nomads; wife of diplomat; peripatetic lawyer; annotator of foreign service life, rule of law, culture, travel, & whatever strikes my fancy.
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2 Responses to Legal research via Google.

  1. Traffic Ticket Defense says:
    May 3, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Nice. You have a couple of good points. When it’s all said and done the police do a good job. The issue with the law system is that it doesn’t always work effectively. It is a failed system and needs to be rectified.

  2. Traffic Ticket Defense says:
    May 3, 2010 at 12:02 am

    Nice. You have a couple of great points. When it’s all said and done the police do a good job. The problem with law is that it sometimes doesn’t work effectively. It is a system failure and needs to be rectified.

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