Corporate & Securities Law

Google and Legal Search

By David Fischer

Google now has a legal search engine.  You first have to go to Google Scholar and then selected the “legal opinions and journals” option.  I have only taken a quick look but a couple of quick thoughts: this is will be useful if you know the case name (or part of it).  However, the inability to search for cases within a particular federal district court or circuit is an odd limitation (especially given the the ability to search for state cases by state).  Other limitations: there is no indication if the case has been overruled, vacated, etc. (nor is there a way to Sherpadize a case) and the search tools are not as powerful as those found on Lexis or Westlaw.  Hopefully, Google will work to improve this search tool.

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Full post as published by Antitrust Review on November 19, 2009 (boomark / email).