{"id":545,"date":"2007-02-22T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T23:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/22\/westlexis-access-for-the-patrons\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T19:47:48","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T23:47:48","slug":"westlexis-access-for-the-patrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2007\/02\/22\/westlexis-access-for-the-patrons\/","title":{"rendered":"West\/Lexis Access for the Patrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This might have been mentioned before in earlier posts, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to repeat it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By now you are probably aware that lawyers rely on the big legal databases of West and Lexis to do their research.\u00a0 These provide access to state and federal\u00a0cases and statutes and important secondary sources.\u00a0 You are also probably aware that it is pretty expensive to use these resources.\u00a0 And a couple of pro se patrons have complained that they feel pretty outgunned going up against lawyers who use\u00a0such databases.<\/p>\n<p>However, you may not be aware that your state\u00a0or\u00a0county court law library might have patron access to either West or Lexis.\u00a0 This can give you good search capability of state and federal statutory and case law.\u00a0 And its usually free of charge (print outs\u00a0are another matter).\u00a0 Certainly, these patron access services do not give you the full capability that West and Lexis are capable of.\u00a0 But\u00a0they\u00a0are pretty darn helpful.<\/p>\n<p>If you need to research an issue, contact your state or county court law library to see if they have patron access to a major database.\u00a0 That will help level the playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might have been mentioned before in earlier posts, but it doesn&#8217;t hurt to repeat it.\u00a0 By now you are probably aware that lawyers rely on the big legal databases of West and Lexis to do their research.\u00a0 These provide access to state and federal\u00a0cases and statutes and important secondary sources.\u00a0 You are also probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}