Primary Research Group Inc. has published the Survey of Law School Faculty & Administration: Docket Searching Practices, ISBN 978-157440-588-0

The study presents data and commentary on docket searching practices from a survey of 75 law school faculty and administration drawn from 56 law schools, predominantly in the USA. 

The study looks closely at how law school faculty and staff evaluate the aid and training that they have received from their law libraries in maximizing their skills in docket searching, for state and Federal courts.  The study gives precise data on what percentage of law school populations use popular and more obscure law docket searching applications, including but not limited to: PACER, Bloomberg Law Docket Searching, Docket Alarm, Westlaw Dockets and CourtLink, among others.

Just a few of this 50-page the report’s many finding are that: 

• Deans and administrators were the most self- critical about their docket searching skills with more than 60% feeling that their skills were deficient.
• 72.41% of the professors sampled said that they had never received any formal training in docket searching.
• 14.55% of those sampled had viewed a video or had some other form of formal training in searching state court dockets.

A PDF version of the report is currently available from Primary Research Group for $124.00 and a print version will be available for shipment on June 20, 2019 and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available.  For a table of contents and excerpt, and a list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants – view the product page for this report on our website at:  https://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=563

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