Loading the player...
Information
Free Legal Research: Discover the NEW Casemaker4 (Your State Bar Association offers access to the Casemaker4 database as a free member benefit.)
Length: 1:00
Casemaker4 is an online legal research system that lawyers in many states can access for free through their bar association memberships. Casemaker updated its entire platform and re-launched it as Casemaker4 on June 5, 2019. Search capablities and functions are the same from state to state. This webinar uses Maine and New Hampshire search examples in Casemaker4 to highlight the variety of legal research resources available:
- Cases, statutes, session laws, codes, court rules, rules, and regulations from the federal and state governments (and the District of Columbia)
- Tribal cases
- Other state resources (e.g., for Maine: Workers Compensation Decisions, Maine Law Review, and the Public Utilities Commission)
This webinar will explain how to use Casemaker4 and all of its new features, from how to:
- create the best searches: by keywords or by one or multiple fields (attorney, date, judge, citation, party name, or docket numbers)
- cite check (case-by-case or by uploading an entire memo or brief)
- set up alerts
- create a link to a Casemaker4 document to share its full text with non-Casemaker4 subscribers
Carole Levitt, Internet For Lawyers
Carole Levitt, founder/principal of Internet For Lawyers (IFL), is an internationally recognized CLE seminar speaker and best-selling American Bar Association author. She writes and speaks on Internet investigative and legal research, social media research, social media ethics, and technology for lawyers. Since 1999, IFL has provided law firms, corporations, and local and state Bar Associations around the country with professional and entertaining turn-key CLE programs. The company focuses on delivering information about free investigative and background research resources available on the Internet.
Together with co-author Mark Rosch, Levitt has written several ABA Law Practice Division books, including "Google Gmail and Calendar For Lawyers in One Hour" (2013), two editions of "The Lawyer’s Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet," "Google For Lawyers," and "Find Info Like a Pro," Volumes 1 and 2. They have also just completed the thirteenth edition of their book "The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet" (2015, IFL Press). Levitt also co-authored “Internet Legal Research on a Budget (ABA, 2013) with Judy K. Davis.
Previously, Levitt was a California attorney, a law librarian in Chicago and Los Angeles, and a Legal Research and Writing Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law. She graduated with distinction from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and was a member of the school’s law review. Carole has a Masters in Library Science and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois.
She is active in numerous professional associations, including the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Association of Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA).
Mark Rosch, Vice President, Internet For Lawyers
Mark Rosch is Vice-President of Internet for Lawyers and President of its CLEseminars.com division. He’s an internationally recognized speaker and author on the subjects of using the Internet for investigative and background research, Google search, and Google Cloud Apps.
He has co-authored numerous books and hundreds of articles on these and other related topics, receiving top industry recognition for his work.
Mark is a Fellow in the College of Law Practice Management, an honorary society that honors and recognizes distinguished law practice management professionals, and in 2013 he was named to the "Fastcase Fifty," recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law.”
Mark is a long-time member of ACLEA and the ABA and is active member in both organizations. He has served in numerous leadership positions – recently completing a 3-year term on the ABA TECHSHOW Planning Board.
See the Latest Blog Posts from Mark Rosch
