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Legal Research In The Digital Age: Authentication And Preservation Of Primary Material, Matt Novak Jan 2010

Legal Research In The Digital Age: Authentication And Preservation Of Primary Material, Matt Novak

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Most legal professionals have used free online resources to help in the legal research process. Whether it is an opinion downloaded from a court's Web site, a federal statute located using Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII), an article on Wikipedia, or a post on someone's blawg, the quantity and variety of free online resources seems to grow on a daily basis. Some have even wondered if these resources can one day replace the need to subscribe to a computer-assisted legal research (CALR) service such as Westlaw or LexisNexis. Late last year, the "blogosphere" was abuzz with this question after Google …