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Introducing a New Version of Casemaker Web Library for NHBA Members
For those who have used Casemaker before…
Good news:
Casemaker 2.0 is streamlined and has more to offer.
Even better news:
You’ll barely notice the difference. It’s just as easy to use.
For those who haven’t used Casemaker…
Casemaker is a free member benefit that will meet most of your legal research needs.
(See log-in instructions below.) View the Casemaker 2.0 Visual Highlights Guide from the Spring 2008 Bar Journal or the Casemaker User Manual for details.
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Casemaker 2.0 Highlights
The new look has the same functionality of the original, with some enhanced features:
- Direct link to NH library. You will have immediate access to the New Hampshire library upon logging in. (See instructions below). To reach the entire list of state and federal libraries, click on the Casemaker logo in the top left corner of the Casemaker library page.
- Save a step. Use the enter key on your keyboard to conduct a search. (Previously, users had to move the cursor to the search button to execute a search operation.)
- More search options. Search only one state library, or search all of the libraries by selecting “Nationwide Collections” Or pick and choose libraries, using the “Mult-State Searches” option.
- 50-state coverage! Caselaw is available for all 50 states; federal library has circuit caselaw back to at least 1950 in all circuits. Statutes for all 50 states is being added this year.
- More federal materials. Bankruptcy Reporter Advance Sheets and the Federal Supp. have been added.
- Browse mode for statutes, codes. This feature provides an expandable table of contents showing titles, chapters and sections of state statutes, procedural rules and administrative codes. Users can use this feature just like the table of contents of a book to browse to the material they are looking for.
 Casecheck. The casecheck feature allows users to instantly determine the treatment of the case in question by a later court. Click on casecheck link and a user is taken directly to the portion of the later decision where the selected case is cited. casecheck is always visible on the right-hand side of the screen when viewing case law in Casemaker.
 SuperCODE. When a statute that has been amended or repealed by very recent legislation, a SuperCODE link will be visible on the right side of the screen, that will transport the user to the relevant portion of the new legislation.
Both SuperCODE and Casecheck are enhancements to Casemaker added subsequent to the NHBA’s initial launch of Casemaker in Dec. 2002.
For those of you who have used Casemaker before, see the revised Casemaker User Guide to get acquainted with the new features of Casemaker 2.0.
Log-in Instructions
For the uninitiated, the Casemaker New Hampshire Web Library is available exclusively in the For Members area of the NHBA website. Contact login@nhbar.org if you do not know your user name and password. Also available in For Members is the Member Directory and an array of member services and benefits including ever-growing areas devoted to Law Practice Management Tools and Law Practice Tips & Resources.
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