Comments on: Practitioners Beware…Research on Westlaw / Lexis is a Necessity in Texas? http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/ Brought to you by the Legal Research instructors at Stanford Law School Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Goff http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-2723 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:41:56 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-2723 The administrator for the Oklahoma court system who is in the process of reworking their system has offered to met with interested attorneys from Texas and explain how they did it. They did it entirely “in house”. Anyone interested?

]]> By: doncruse http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-2331 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:36:24 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-2331 Yes, the Oklahoma system is to be admired. The biggest key was probably that they created a system that let those opinions be cited by practitioners. In their case, it was paragraph numbering (which most states lack).

I would like to see Texas move toward a system where the official online versions of a case are considered to be official enough to cite directly. That will take some work on our end.

]]> By: Ben Goff http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-2299 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:20:22 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-2299 Oklahoma puts Texas to shame by posting on the Supreme Court web site a fully search-able electronic version of their cases and it is free to everyone. Take a look at it. http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/start.asp?viewType=LIBRARY

]]> By: Don’t Mess With Texas, When It Comes to Memorandum Opinions Anyway « Advocate’s Studio http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-1173 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:25:36 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-1173 [...] stone or judicial opinion unturned, even if the opinion is only accessible though Westlaw or Lexis. Erika Wayne at Legal Research Plus tipped me off to a recent change to the Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 47 that discusses the use [...]

]]> By: Deep in the Heart of Texas, err, Google « Legal Research Plus http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-1170 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:13:49 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-1170 [...] Practitioners Beware…Research on Westlaw / Lexis is a Necessity in Texas? [...]

]]> By: Researching Unpublished COA Opinions in Texas http://legalresearchplus.com/2009/06/11/practioners-beware-research-on-westlaw-and-lexis-is-a-necessity-in-texas/#comment-1168 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:29:33 +0000 http://legalresearchplus.com/?p=1417#comment-1168 [...] cites a legal research blog post titled “Practioners Beware… Research on Westlaw / Lexis is a Necessity in Texas?”, which in turn discusses a St. Mary’s Law Journal article critical of this change to the [...]

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