Term Search Beta

Search across all your firm documents!

This release we are making live for you a new search engine to search all your firm documents for specific terms. You can still search for documents by name from the Firm Documents page (Cases > Firm Documents). In a future release these features will be merged and Firm Documents will be retired. 

How to Use Search

Enter your Search terms in the Casefriend search bar and click enter or the Search button

Case Suggestions & Searching 

When your search terms match the name of a case you will see the Case suggestions. To select the Case you must click on the Case name or key down to the Case name and click enter. To continue your term search, click enter or click the Search button.

Search Examples

The Casefriend term search uses natural language and Boolean search terms. Below are some search syntax examples and how the search engine searches your terms

Boolean Operators

Use Boolean operators to improve the precision of your search results

AND, &, +
Use the and connectors to return documents where all the terms must appear anywhere in the documents. For example type [ supplemental + report ] to return all documents that contain both supplemental and report anywhere in the document.

OR, |

Use or to search for alternative terms. for example [ notice | appearance ] will return documents with with the terms notice or report.

NOT, !, -

Exclude terms by using the not restrictor. For example when you search [ injury -pre ] documents containing the term injury but not -pre will be returned. So a document with the term pre-injury will be excluded.

Wildcards

*, ?

Use wildcards to search to expand your term. The search [ alpha* ] will return alphanumeric, alphabetical, etc

Fuzzy Search

Fuzzy search will expand search terms to find similarly constructed terms.

~, ~#
Add a tilde to the end of your search terms to expand the root of the term to multiple endings. For example [ injur~ ] searches for injuries injury injured, etc. You can use 1 or 2 to specify the edit distance. [ injur~2 ] This example will return documents with injury, injured

Proximity Searches

You can use a term in quotes to search that specific structure.

" ..." 

Place your search term within quotes to find that exact phrase. [ "injured employee" ] will return documents including that phrase. 

"... "~2

Include a terms within quotes followed by a tilde and number to create a proximity boundary. For example [ "injured party"~2] will return documents with "injured" and "party" within 2 words of each other.