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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
There’s a lot more to HeinOnline than just law journals. HeinOnline has many libraries of content, ranging from U.S. Congressional and Executive documents to foreign and international law and subject-based collections like the new COVID-19: Pandemics Past & Present collection. …
Just in time for Black History Month, the Law Library has created a new collection in the LexisNexis Digital Library to support BYU Law School’s efforts to promote diversity, equity and belonging. We know law students are busy, so we …
Bloomberg Law created a five-episode series of podcasts on the experiences of African American lawyers in the United States and the current state of diversity & inclusion efforts. Bloomberg Law Executive Editor for Strategic Initiatives Lisa Helem and Senior Producer …
We have a new electronic resource for immigration research! ProQuest Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration is a great place to explore paper topics and start your research if you are doing your substantial writing or a law review article on …
BYU Law Library is excited to announce the launch of LexisNexis Digital Library Attorney Access for Utah attorneys, paralegals, and BYU Law School alumni. LexisNexis Digital Library contains easy-to-use e-book versions of many popular legal treatises that are accessible from …
What’s a preemption check? A preemption check is a careful background check of your topic to see if anyone else has used your thesis or argument in a paper before. You don’t want to go to all the trouble of …
Big changes in the legal research industry are underway. Last week two of the largest legal research alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw, Fastcase and Casemaker, announced their merger. This news comes on the heels of ROSS Intelligence announcing it would …
January 4th, 2021 marks the 125th anniversary of Utah being admitted as a state to the United States of America. Utah took a complicated journey en route to statehood. Check out ProQuest Congressional – Legislative & Executive Publications in the …
