This paper presents a history of the development of computerized information retrieval systems. It discusses how library science research in the 1950s and early 1960s led to today's commercial computer-assisted legal research (CALR) systems, and it evaluates the efficacy of various uses of such systems by the legal profession.This paper also appeared in Legal and Legislative Information Processing, Beth Krevitt Eres, editor.
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Emergence of Computer-Assisted Research as an Established Legal Tool
January 1, 1977