You are invited to join Stacy Cavin, your Lexis representative, to learn about Lexis for Microsoft Office at next week’s Library Lunchtime Learning Series. Stacy will be demonstrating the new tool that allows you to use Lexis right from your Microsoft Office documents. Imagine writing a brief or memo and being able to research in…
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Did you miss one of the Library Lunchtime Learning Series sessions? You can now watch the presentations online via Tegrity. Here’s a recap of what you missed: The Legal Research Process, Sept 20 (click link to view recording) Ramsey Donnell, Reference Librarian and former practicing attorney, discussed the legal research process including where to get…
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The Library now has a one month trial subscription to “GTDT”, an online service for corporate counsel and legal practitioners. To log in, go to http://www.gettingthedealthrough.com/ and enter the following: Username: JohnMarshall Password: LawSchool GTDT provides international comparative guides to law and regulation in 43 practice areas and more than 100 jurisdictions. These practice areas…
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The Library is trying out a number of popular Aspen treatise as part of its electronic resources collection. Most of the Aspen titles cover the following subject areas: Antitrust & Trade Regulation (i.e. Antitrust Law by Areeda & Hovenkamp; Foreign Commerce and the Anitrust Laws by Fugate) Benefits (i.e. Employee Benefit Plan Review) Computer and…
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Are you a visual person? Are your class notes filled with arrows, lines and bubbles? Would you like to organize your thoughts and notes in a way that makes sense to you visually? Come to the Library Lunchtime Learning Series on Monday, September 27 at noon in Room 608 to learn about MindManager. MindManager is…
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Whether you are a 3L or a 1L in your first weeks of law school, you have probably gathered that legal research is a different animal from research in other disciplines. Each research problem raises similar questions. When do I start searching for cases? When do I use secondary sources like law review articles? How…
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The JMLS Library book sale is going on now. There are a wide variety of old editions of text books, study guides and other books for you to choose from. Books are available for purchase on the 6th floor in the library in front of the circulation desk.
Cornell University Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII) has partnered with legal publisher NOLO and will make Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary available for free on Wex, their community- built legal dictionary and encyclopedia. Not familiar with Wex? It is like the Wikipedia of law. However, unlike Wikipedia, Wex entries are collaboratively created and edited by…
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Over the summer Westlaw introduced a new legal research system called WestlawNext. Faculty members have access to this new system now and students will be able to access it beginning on September 13. The new platform has a simplified search interface and is designed to return more relevant results based on West’s new search algorithm. …
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One of the most important considerations in law review publication is – Where to submit? Washington and Lee’s Law Review Rankings (http://lawlib.wlu.edu/lj/) can help you determine where to submit or accept possible publication. The Washington and Lee website can selectively display law reviews limited by a number of factors, such as specialty, publication format (print…
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