Learn tips and tricks to maximize your results with Google Scholar from Beverly G. Butula, Director of Library of Services at Davis & Kuelthau, Milwaukee.

Sept. 4, 2019 – Here’s a research tip: Want relevant updates to specific case law? You can set up alerts in Google Scholar based on the results of a search.

Google Scholar offers free access to published opinions of U.S. state, appellate, and Supreme Court cases, and more.

You can find out more from Davis & Kuelthau’s Director of Library Services, Beverly G. Butula, who also writes research articles for InsideTrack, including “Legal Research: Are You a Google Scholar,” from June 5, 2019.

Butula explores using Google Scholar as a legal research tool as the presenter for a one-hour webcast CLE seminar, Legal Research Using Innovative Google Methods, from the State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE®.

Using Google can be a bit overwhelming when your search yields billions of results. Googling “top legal research tips,” for example, yields 308 million results. Just how do you find relevant results quickly?

Learn to make the most of this free search engine, sift through infinite results, and find the specific information you actually need, including how to:

• update your settings to organize search results;
• use Google Scholar to locate relevant case law and scholarly journals;
• upload an image to potentially discover its origin; and
• find what you really need when searching.

Available in September, October, and as OnDemand Seminar

Legal Research Using Innovative Google Methods is a one-hour, 1-CLE credit seminar available as a webcast seminar on Sept. 16, Sept. 25, and Oct. 4, 2019.

If you can’t attend on those dates, the program will be available starting Sept. 18, 2019, in the PINNACLE CLE OnDemand^™ Library.

To register:

• go online on WisBar Marketplace;
• call State Bar Customer Service at (800) 728-7788; or
• download the CLE Seminar order form to fax or mail.