October 31, 2007

Gratuitous Legal Research Observation

You know, if Westlaw were to add a spell-check function to its search engine thingy, it might save all of us a lot of time and aggrevation.

Grrrr.

UPDATE: No, I'm not going to tell you which word I misspelled. Too embarrassing.

Posted by Robert at October 31, 2007 02:04 PM | TrackBack
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but then West wouldn't make nearly as much money! I've always disliked using either Westlaw or Lexis - it just feels wrong to send that bill to the clients. There's a service called Casemaker that does a lot of the same things that Westlaw and Lexis does, and it's free for members of the Indiana bar - I would presume that they have similar arrangements with other bars, as well.

Posted by: The Gripping Hand at October 31, 2007 02:20 PM

There is a nifty little feature of Firefox. Right mouse click in the field in question and select "spell check this field."

Aside from general text-entry fields being spell checked, this is useful - for those of us spelling impaired - for post titles, etc.

It could have a better dictionary, but you can't have everything.

Posted by: Zendo Deb at October 31, 2007 03:20 PM