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It's a lot more common that you would imagine. A lot of small firm partners are stingy as fuck.RaceJudicata wrote:Also, what kind of firm doing any sort of litigation doesn't have a basic/state law only subscription to westlaw or lexis?
This. If you contact West they may just pull your subscription if they they think you are using it for work.RaceJudicata wrote:Westlaw almost certainly will not be willing to help... Ever print something out and notice at the top it says "for educational use only"? It isn't meant to be used for work at a firm. Of course very few people follow this rule.
Also, what kind of firm doing any sort of litigation doesn't have a basic/state law only subscription to westlaw or lexis?
lacrossebrother wrote:Try signing up for bloomberg and/or ravel (lol) and saying youre graduating in 2016.
Sign up for fastcase and casetext for free
edit to add: the fact that it took this many posts to even mention fastcase is absurd. people on TLS arejust not that helpfulmostly students or working at institutions with Westlaw/Lexis subscriptions, for better or worse.
fair.Now, in a digital-age sacrifice intended to serve grand intentions, the Harvard librarians are slicing off the spines of all but the rarest volumes and feeding some 40 million pages through a high-speed scanner. They are taking this once unthinkable step to create a complete, searchable database of American case law that will be offered free on the Internet, allowing instant retrieval of vital records that usually must be paid for
Ivy Leaguers and their Ivory To..... wait. Awesome!MCFC wrote:No help to the OP, but this story made me think of this thread.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/us/ha ... .html?_r=1Now, in a digital-age sacrifice intended to serve grand intentions, the Harvard librarians are slicing off the spines of all but the rarest volumes and feeding some 40 million pages through a high-speed scanner. They are taking this once unthinkable step to create a complete, searchable database of American case law that will be offered free on the Internet, allowing instant retrieval of vital records that usually must be paid for
worked out awesome for aaron swartzballouttacontrol wrote:Why can't some reddit/4chan types just download every single thing off of Westlaw from like a handful of student accounts and put it up on piratebay or something? Like why tf has this not been done yet
if you're just talking about caselaw, courtlistener, casetext, and google scholar have done a pretty job.ballouttacontrol wrote:Why can't some reddit/4chan types just download every single thing off of Westlaw from like a handful of student accounts and put it up on piratebay or something? Like why tf has this not been done yet
I was thinking about doing this, but is Westlaw like Netflix or iTunes, where you can only be on so many devices?Bron Burgundy wrote:Find a friend who is still in law school and borrow their account. Buy them lunch, mentor them, or do whatever to get access to their westlaw account.
you can only be signed on to one session at a time. you can't even have westlaw open in multiple browsers, so multiple locations wouldn't work.Anonymous User wrote:I was thinking about doing this, but is Westlaw like Netflix or iTunes, where you can only be on so many devices?Bron Burgundy wrote:Find a friend who is still in law school and borrow their account. Buy them lunch, mentor them, or do whatever to get access to their westlaw account.
That's true, but I was fortunate to find a friend who wasn't working and didn't do law review, so they barely used their westlaw account. There were a couple of time when I got kicked out of westlaw when they logged in. Not ideal, but still better than nothing.k5220 wrote:you can only be signed on to one session at a time. you can't even have westlaw open in multiple browsers, so multiple locations wouldn't work.Anonymous User wrote:I was thinking about doing this, but is Westlaw like Netflix or iTunes, where you can only be on so many devices?Bron Burgundy wrote:Find a friend who is still in law school and borrow their account. Buy them lunch, mentor them, or do whatever to get access to their westlaw account.