Onboarding Resources

As fun as it can be, we know that legal research isn't just a hobby of yours and that instead you have a client, boss, opposing counsel, or judge waiting on answers and information. When it's time to share what you found, you can stay focused on what the information means instead of where it came from by copying with cite. No more worrying whether your citation will be formatted correctly. When you find something useful, highlight the relevant text and select whether you want the citation to appear according to the California style rules or the standard style rules, meaning the Blue Book or federal style. Click copy, then simply paste into any document or email. The selected text and styled citation will appear. Note that for the citation to copy with the highlighted text, you must click copy above your selected style. Using a keyboard shortcut or the right click menu to copy the text will only include the text and not the citation. Pasting the properly copied text with citation, however, can be completed with a keyboard shortcut or with the right click menu. The ability to copy with cite is especially helpful with primary law, but the option to copy with cite also appears in the right margin of our secondary sources when you highlight text. After all, the California appellate and supreme courts have cited to our practice guides in published cases, why shouldn't you cite to our content in your memos and briefs? Use the bookmark feature to organize your research within the platform and easily return to it later. If you're not at the top of a page, click back to top, then click the gold bookmark icon in the upper right corner. You can save your research in a pre existing folder you've created or you can create a new folder by clicking the drop down menu and selecting create new folder. You can find your saved bookmarks using the same bookmark icon, then navigate between saved folders using the dropdown list on the left. When you inevitably get interrupted during a research session or before you have a chance to bookmark what you found, you can jump right back in using the history icon, which lives between the bookmark icon and the profile avatar. This keeps track of your searches, documents, and browsing history across all research platforms and goes back as far as you've been using our platform. For folks who would prefer a physical copy of the information they found, the print icon is located in the upper right corner of every content page. For secondary sources, it will give you the option to print the entire chapter you are currently viewing or to print a custom selection of that chapter. If you only need to print a subsection, we recommend taking note of the needed section number or numbers before clicking the print icon. Way, you can easily find what you need among the custom selection list. Mark the checkbox next to the desired section or sections, then click print. You'll be taken to your browser print window where you can adjust your computer and printer settings as needed. Sharing what you've found is just as important as finding what you need. We hope these tools make our content more shareable and therefore more useful.