Like most legal researchers, you may have a practice area or jurisdiction related body of case law that you like to keep tabs on. Services that push electronic advance sheets to your desktop rarely provide the requisite level of specificity that you are interested in. Further, they lack the flexibility necessary to track emerging cases at your convenience in line with the business that may be crossing your desk at this very moment.

     Using the Case Law Database, you can easily build your own Virtual Advance Sheets by simply configuring the search engine properly.

     At the outset you should consider the jurisdictions you are interested in. Maybe you want to track emerging cases within two days of release in the jurisdictions that are important to you. If you want to simply track the activities of your state's top court on say a weekly basis, then jurisdiction and date are the only factors you need to consider and your search would look like this:

     If practice area figures into the equation add a search term. For example, a tax practitioner in New York may want to track appellate judicial opinions from New York containing the term tax* which will return cases with the words: tax or taxes or taxing, and so forth. The search would look like this: