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Casemaker: Online Demonstrations

Comprehensive, accurate and timely Internet legal research is now possible through the Casemaker Web Library. It's brought to you by the Nebraska State Bar Association and Lawriter ©, the NSBA's Casemaker partner since 2001.

This powerful Internet law library provides you with free access to the legal research materials you need to serve your clients. The only requirement of access is that you are a active member of the Nebraska State Bar Association.

• Welcome to the Nebraska Casemaker Web Library.
• What is Casemaker?
• What’s in the Casemaker library?
• Access to the Casemaker Web Library.
• Once logged into the site
• Upon entering Casemaker
• The contents of the library
• Browsing the Casemaker library contents
• Browsing the Casemaker library contents (cont.)
• Searching the Casemaker library contents
• Conducting an “and” search
• Conducting a phrase search
• Conducting an “or” search
• Conducting an exclusion search
• Conducting a Thesaurus expansion search
• Conducting a wildcard search
• Using the Casemaker advanced search screen
• The advanced search screen (cont.)
• The advanced search screen (cont.)
• Using the full document search query box in conjunction with fields
• Using the “word forms” pull-down menu in the advanced search
• Using the “proximity” pull-down menu in the advanced search
• Locating a case when you know the case name
• Locating a case when you know the official citation
• Annotating the code section on the fly
• Using Casemaker to do a Shepards®-type search
• Casemaker search results screen
• Thank you for viewing this online demonstration of the Casemaker online law library