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Shepard’s Case Study: Am Law 100 Firm

“Shepard’s is often the quickest and least expensive way for me to (1) determine whether my adversary has properly summarized controlling law or avoided contrary authority; and (2) find the most recent and most persuasive cases on point.”

“I routinely Shepardize the cases cited by my adversaries in a brief or motion to identify contrary precedent and flaws in their arguments.”

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
    • Reducing research costs

Use Case

  • Am Law 100 firm with 200 or more attorneys
  • Uses Shepard’s in the following ways:
    • To ensure that cases & authorities are still good law
    • To help formulate stronger arguments
    • To find more sources to clarify the law & support cases
    • To save time on research and validation

Results

  • Shepard’s is differentiated from other citators in the following ways:
    • 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 a high ROI.
  • Highly dependent on Shepard’s to validate and research cases.




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