Pennsylvania Archives | Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) in California, MCLE Los Angeles, CLE Orange County, Irvine & San Francisco https://www.netforlawyers.com/topics/pennsylvania/ Tue, 27 May 2014 18:52:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 As Pennsylvania Bar Association Shifts from InCite to Casemaker, Members Will Discover the Benefits https://www.netforlawyers.com/books/as-pennsylvania-bar-association-shifts-from-incite-to-casemaker-members-will-discover-the-benefits/ Tue, 27 May 2014 18:52:02 +0000 https://www.netforlawyers.com/books/as-pennsylvania-bar-association-shifts-from-incite-to-casemaker-members-will-discover-the-benefits/ As noted in Carole Levitt's new ABA book, Internet Legal Research on a Budget (co-authored with Judy K. Davis), forty-eight state bar associations subscribe to legal research databases on behalf of their members as a member benefit. Forty-seven of these forty-eight states subscribe either to Casemaker or Fastcase. Currently, the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) subscribes to InCite. A LexisNexis product, InCite provides access to all Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases back to 1791, Pennsylvania Superior Court cases back to 1895, and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court cases back to October 1970. It only offers the five most current years of decisions for other state’s cases, except New Jersey for which it goes back to the beginning years.

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But, beginning August 1, 2014, PBA will shift its alliances to Casemaker, which provides increased content, such as federal cases and codes, as well as cases and codes for all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Casemaker also includes access to other legal research materials, increased dates of coverage, and other services such as the ability to to save your searches in folders not available via InCite.

And as a huge bonus, PBA is providing ALL of Casemaker’s premium services to its members for free, such as:

  • CaseCheck+ – A negative citator system that informs you if the case you're reading is still good law.
  • CasemakerDigest – daily e-mail summaries of state and federal appellate decisions (within 12-24 hours of publication), listed by practice area.
  • CiteCheck – Upload a brief and in minutes Casemaker will automatically check your citations to be sure they are still good law.

Internet Legal Research on a Budget’s Chapter 8 provides detailed instructions on how to use Casemaker and also explains some of the features and limitations of CaseCheck+ and CiteCheck…and provides you with a work-around.

To purchase Internet Legal Research on a Budget, see https://www.netforlawyers.com/page/internet-legal-research-budget-free-low-cost-resources.

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As noted in Carole Levitt's new ABA book, Internet Legal Research on a Budget (co-authored with Judy K. Davis), forty-eight state bar associations subscribe to legal research databases on behalf of their members as a member benefit. Forty-seven of these forty-eight states subscribe either to Casemaker or Fastcase. Currently, the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) subscribes to InCite. A LexisNexis product, InCite provides access to all Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases back to 1791, Pennsylvania Superior Court cases back to 1895, and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court cases back to October 1970. It only offers the five most current years of decisions for other state’s cases, except New Jersey for which it goes back to the beginning years.

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But, beginning August 1, 2014, PBA will shift its alliances to Casemaker, which provides increased content, such as federal cases and codes, as well as cases and codes for all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Casemaker also includes access to other legal research materials, increased dates of coverage, and other services such as the ability to to save your searches in folders not available via InCite.

And as a huge bonus, PBA is providing ALL of Casemaker’s premium services to its members for free, such as:

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In response to a tweet yesterday afternoon mentioning the awkwardness of the existing search offered by the state of Pennsylvania for the online version of its statutes, we created a Google-powered custom search of the state's statute pages/files. It allows you to search the Pennsylvania statutes with all of the familiar Google Boolean connectors, syntax, etc. This custom-search is accessing the the pages and files as provided by the Pennsylvania state Legislature.

Thanks for all the positive feedback we've received since originally posting the search on Twitter and Facebook. While the search seems to cover all 79 Titles of the Pennsylvania statutes, we're not 100% sure the results are all encompassing. Based on the dozen or so test searches we ran setting the search up, it seems to catch all of the statutes' content - but all of the usual caveats/disclaimers apply.

Let us know if you find any Titles in particular it does not return.

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In response to a tweet yesterday afternoon mentioning the awkwardness of the existing search offered by the state of Pennsylvania for the online version of its statutes, we created a Google-powered custom search of the state's statute pages/files. It allows you to search the Pennsylvania statutes with all of the familiar Google Boolean connectors, syntax, etc. This custom-search is accessing the the pages and files as provided by the Pennsylvania state Legislature.

Thanks for all the positive feedback we've received since originally posting the search on Twitter and Facebook. While the search seems to cover all 79 Titles of the Pennsylvania statutes, we're not 100% sure the results are all encompassing. Based on the dozen or so test searches we ran setting the search up, it seems to catch all of the statutes' content – but all of the usual caveats/disclaimers apply.

Let us know if you find any Titles in particular it does not return.

Continue reading →

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