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Firefox extension for cut/paste Westlaw/Lexis citations

By nipper

I rarely use Westlaw/Lexis, but the CiteGenie FireFox extension could be really useful for those of you whom do. As their website points out: Cutting and pasting when doing legal research using your browser is simple. But having to construct the citation for what you pasted is not so simple. This is especially true with legal citations from sources like Westlaw. You have to stop and copy the case name separately, determine the pinpoint page numbers, and adjust the date and court name format. So I decided to write a browser plugin that would automatically add a pinpoint citation to the text I copy and paste. Related posts:Tech Tip of the Day — Archive.org and FireFox Extension Many of us use www.archive.org’s “Internet Archive Wayback Machine” for...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on November 20, 2009 (boomark / email).