Challenges
- Solves the following challenges with Shepard’s:
- Knowing that authorities are still good law
- Finding additional authority to bolster arguments
- Reducing research costs
Use Case
- Is a law firm with 1 attorney.
- Uses Shepard’s in the following ways:
- To ensure that cases & authorities are still good law
- 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
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 high ROI.
- Extremely dependent on Shepard’s to validate and research cases.
