Shady
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 12:22 am
Boutique I'm working for is having me download cases from Westlaw. Should I avoid them?
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I'm just wondering how you plan to "avoid" a firm you're "working for."Anonymous User wrote:Boutique I'm working for is having me download cases from Westlaw. Should I avoid them?
This is good advice for a future lawyer on the issue of integrity. Yes, it's wrong, stealing IP outside of the permissible bounds of your user license, but you probably won't get caught, so it's ok.jarofsoup wrote:I am assuming that this is rather hard for westlaw to catch. A lot of people opt to use westlaw next because their firm will use inferior services, i.e., lexis advance.
I am really not sure how they would know this unless you admit to it.
Supposedly, Westlaw has software in place to detect search patterns that reflect commercial use, rather than student use. Don't know how true this is.jarofsoup wrote:I am assuming that this is rather hard for westlaw to catch. A lot of people opt to use westlaw next because their firm will use inferior services, i.e., lexis advance.
I am really not sure how they would know this unless you admit to it.
I think the 40 hours free research is intended for your own use, and a firm isn't PI.RodneyRuxin wrote:I got an email from Westlaw during 1L that said they were giving me 40 hours of researching for the summer, and if I was doing PI I should let them know and they would give me unlimited hours.
Seems to imply that I can use it for a firm.
(I'm just using the free one they gave me at the start of the summer, though...)
Everybody at my school got unlimited Lexis, even if for commercial use. Is this not a thing everywhere?A. Nony Mouse wrote:I think the 40 hours free research is intended for your own use, and a firm isn't PI.RodneyRuxin wrote:I got an email from Westlaw during 1L that said they were giving me 40 hours of researching for the summer, and if I was doing PI I should let them know and they would give me unlimited hours.
Seems to imply that I can use it for a firm.
(I'm just using the free one they gave me at the start of the summer, though...)
Lexis =/= Westlawbulinus wrote:Everybody at my school got unlimited Lexis, even if for commercial use. Is this not a thing everywhere?A. Nony Mouse wrote:I think the 40 hours free research is intended for your own use, and a firm isn't PI.RodneyRuxin wrote:I got an email from Westlaw during 1L that said they were giving me 40 hours of researching for the summer, and if I was doing PI I should let them know and they would give me unlimited hours.
Seems to imply that I can use it for a firm.
(I'm just using the free one they gave me at the start of the summer, though...)