This week Google launched Google Scholar, which offers U.S. case law online free of charge. Google’s launch made big news, but free legal research is nothing new.
Texas attorneys already have access to free legal research through Casemaker. This service, supported exclusively by TexasBarCLE and TexasBarBooks, gives you access to the laws of Texas and all fifty states plus to federal case law and statutes, all at no charge. The CaseCheck feature helps you instantly determine the treatment of the case in question by a later court. The SuperCode tool that appears when you access a statute allows you to see what changes are being made to the statute and then access the session laws that affect the statute you’re interested in.
And anytime you use the electronic version of a TexasBarBooks publication, like the Texas Pattern Jury Charges, you’ll find links to the cases and statutes cited in the text. To give it a try, download this free excerpt from Texas Criminal Pattern Jury Charges—Intoxication & Controlled Substances.
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