There is still time to submit an application for the open position of Legal Technology and Research Librarian at the BYU Howard W. Hunter Law Library. The deadline has been extended to Monday, July 26, 2021. The position of Legal Technology and Research Librarian is …
We're hiring! The Howard W. Hunter Law Library at BYU seeks applicants for the position of Legal Technology and Research Librarian, a professional faculty position (continuing faculty status track), to begin Fall 2021. The position has two main areas of focus: legal technology and faculty …
Another day, another story about an attorney failing to redact a document properly. News channels reported yesterday that Joseph Bondy, "a criminal defense and cannabis business attorney" according to his profile and attorney for businessman Lev Parnas, filed a letter with the U.S. District Court …
Attention Law Student Research Assistants for Faculty: I will be conducting a Faculty Research Assistant Research Training on Monday, May 3 from 12pm to 1pm via Zoom. Email me (HickmanA@law.byu.edu) for the Zoom link! It will be recorded, and I am happy to share that …
Database and building access. Using my carrel to study for the bar. Law school email addresses. We rounded up that information and more and created a page in the student services section of our website in response to common questions we receive from graduating law …
Rising 2Ls, 3Ls, and 4Ls You have unlimited access to your Bloomberg Law and Lexis accounts to do research over the summer, whether for a paid position, a paper, a professor, a co-curricular, an externship, or a non-profit. Check with your employer on their policy …
Westlaw finally released a legal news product last December called Westlaw Today. You can find Westlaw Today using the dropdown menu next to the Westlaw logo in the upper-left of the screen (where you access Practical Law). The delay was a bit of a head-scratcher …
BYU Law School is hosting a virtual book launch event today for Professor Justin Collings' new book, Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil, published by Oxford University Press. According to OUP, the book: "Explores how the constitutional courts in the United States, Germany, …
Tax law is among the most complex and technical legal fields, complicated by the fact that it is constantly changing. This article provides a quick overview of commercial databases that specialize in tax research for law students planning on careers in tax law. Every database …
Courts enjoined or vacated many regulations enacted by the Trump administration. However, those rules still show up in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) despite not being in effect. Even a good researcher who updates their CFR research using the List of CFR Parts Affected …
The Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Office of the Federal Register (OFR) in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are developing a continuously updated, electronic version of the Code of Federal Regulations called the eCFR. Now, new regulations that take effect immediately will be incorporated …
Has this ever happened to you? You enter your keywords into a database to search for case law or journal articles only to retrieve 10,000+ search results. Then you try to narrow your results by adding a couple of terms, but when you hit enter, …
