. Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:00:31 +0530 (IST) From: Soundara Rajan <soundarns@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: David Dillard <net-gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [Net-Gold] Online Legal Research Made Easy Online Legal Research Made Easy Sean Doherty Law.Com 02-01-2010Online legal research is not an easy activity. An entire industry has grown up around interpreting research needs and finding information for lawyers and their clients. Researchers have to remember where information resides, e.g., which database, and extract relevant documents in a compressed amount of time using Boolean or natural language search strategies, prayers, and perhaps a Ouija board.
Last year, Google Scholar and Public.Resource.Org made legal information more available and easier to search. This year at LegalTech New York, LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters aim to change the way users interface legal research tasks. And these changes, at once, appear to make legal research easier and more effective. LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters are putting their best assets forward with Lexis for Microsoft Office and WestlawNext, respectively, to bring value to the legal information stored in their repositories and make search easier and more effective for legal professionals. LexisNexis draws on its experience in enabling content-related workflows and the IP in LSA to put legal research in Microsoft Office and SharePoint Server. Thomson Reuters incorporates its work product in digests, headnotes, indices, and more into WestSearch. With these developments, 2010 promises to be an interesting year for online legal research, to read more visit
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