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
- Avoiding costly mistakes
Use Case
- 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
- Build support for cases
- Find positive and negative analysis
Results
- Shepard’s is differentiated from other citators in the following ways:
- Ability to identify a split in authority
- 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
- Accuracy
- Feels that the value of Shepard’s to their research provides extremely high ROI.
- Extremely dependent on Shepard’s to validate and research cases.
