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Digital legal research: solo or collaboration folders?

April 24, 2012

By Jason Wilson From John Barker on the WK Intelligent Solutions Blog: Today’s professional workflows involve teams. Law firms do work on behalf of corporate legal departments. Lawyers and accountants from different practice groups - labor, tax, securities, etc., – work together on behalf on a single client. They share research. Of course, their research activities [...]

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Please, someone, make CALR Threads.

December 7, 2011

By Jason Wilson {I’m republishing this post from 2009 because two years later, nothing. I’m still waiting on someone to do this. Honestly, what good is all of our technology if we can’t take simple HTML and show historical versions of statutes? I swear to God if I ever get my hands on a primary [...]

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How legal citators could suck less.

April 12, 2011

By Jason Wilson As legal researchers, we value citators. When I was in law school, you had to “Shepardize” your cases to determine whether the case was overruled, followed, distinguished, criticized, etc. Many years later, we were introduced to “KeyCiting” cases, which everyone understood to be pretty much the same thing. Now you can use [...]

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