Challenges
- Solves the following challenges with Shepard’s:
- Knowing that authorities are still good law
- Improving productivity by streamlining & expediting research
- Finding additional authority to bolster arguments
- Ensuring pertinent legal info isn’t missing that could hurt cases
- Reducing research costs
Use Case
- Is a law firm with 2 to 5 attorneys.
- Uses Shepard’s in the following ways:
- To ensure that cases & authorities are still good law
- To help formulate stronger arguments
- To identify any splits in authority and the impact cases
- To find more sources to clarify the law & support cases
- Leverages Shepard’s in the following ways:
- Build support for cases
- Access a broad number of sources to clarify the law
- Find positive and negative analysis
- Save time on research and validation
Results
- Shepard’s is differentiated from other citators in the following ways:
- Total history & treatment analysis including both positive and negative treatments
- Speed and performance in finding authorities relevant to research
- Trust and reliability
- Ease of use
- Feels that the value of Shepard’s to their research provides extremely high ROI.
- Extremely dependent on Shepard’s to validate and research cases.
