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New Google Scholar Feature

Posted Monday, November 30, 2009 by Christopher L. Thayer.

Google has announced a new feature, Google Scholar, that allows users to search case law and legal journal articles on a variety of topics, and its free! As lawyers most of us have access to this information via a pay service, but now the public can access this information for free. I believe that this a huge step for Google and for how people will use the internet for research to help answer legal questions for average citizens.

Here is a blog entry describing this service:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html

And here is a link to the actual service itself:
http://scholar.google.com/

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