Training & Videos

JADE’s training library lives at openlaw.com.au, the Open Law ecosystem that includes JADE, Victorian Reports, and Lawstream. Below is a guide to what’s available — from two-minute quickstarts to half-hour deep dives.

JADE Features Presentation

A comprehensive overview of JADE Professional’s research tools, covering search, citations, legislation, and visualisation features. This is the best place to start if you want to see what JADE can do.

Watch the Features Presentation

Quickstart Tutorials (1–8 minutes each)

Short, focused videos covering one feature at a time. Perfect for learning a specific tool quickly.

  • JADE Introduction (8:17) — A tour of JADE’s free and Professional features
  • Your First Search (2:29) — How to refine search results for faster legal research
  • JADE Alerts (2:37) — Create customised alerts to stay current in your area of law
  • Citator (3:58) — Search for legal principle using keywords with case law and legislation
  • JADEMarks (1:15) — Highlight, tag, annotate and share your research
  • JADE Clips (1:45) — Find recent cases citing provisions of legislation
  • Focus Matches (<1 min) — Determine whether a judgment is relevant before reading it
  • Document Upload & Citation Checking (1:45) — Upload documents and automatically check citations
  • Sharing — Make the most of JADE’s sharing features for teamwork

Visualisation Tools

  • Similarity Tool (1:32) — Find similar cases that share citations and catchwords
  • Precedent Tracker (1 min) — Quickly determine whether a case is still good law
  • Parallel Citations (1:02) — Find subsequent cases sharing citations and catchwords
  • Legislation Visualisations (1:25) — See how legislation has changed over time

Recorded Webinars (20–45 minutes each)

Longer sessions for practitioners who want to develop their JADE skills in depth.

  • Introducing JADE (27 min) — Learn the basics of searching, saving and sharing
  • Getting Savvy with JADE (27 min) — Take your legal research skills to the next level
  • Mastering JADE (24 min) — Master the complex web of precedent, jurisdiction and statute
  • Staying Up-to-Date Using JADE (23 min) — Current awareness strategies
  • Starting Your Legal Research Using JADE (26 min) — JADE and legal research, a match made in heaven
  • Navigating Legislation (26 min) — How to navigate legislation using JADE
  • When Jasmine Met JADE (25 min) — Introducing Jasmine, JADE’s conversational AI search tool

Specialist Sessions

  • Introducing JADE for Barristers (45 min) — Developed with the Australian Bar Association
  • Getting Savvy with JADE for Barristers (23 min)
  • Mastering JADE for Barristers (27 min)
  • Searching with JADE (32 min) — Deep dive into search capabilities
  • Visualisation Tools (25 min) — Deep insights into case law and legislative history
  • Library Functionality (34 min) — Shareable, curated libraries of annotated legal content
  • Practical Skills for Paralegals & Law Clerks (31 min) — Supercharge your research skills
  • Practical Skills for Law Students (31 min) — How to use JADE during your law degree
  • Navigating Case Law (37 min) — In-depth case law navigation

Live Training

Register for live JADE webinars at openlaw.com.au. For group or enterprise training, contact help@jade.io.

Victorian Reports

The Victorian Reports run a CPD seminar series covering practical topics like criminal juries, equitable principles, and probate. Visit victorianreports.com.au for upcoming events and the full digital collection of authorised law reports dating back to 1905.