Information on summer access to Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, and other Law Library databases. Rising 2Ls and 3Ls Students who will be returning to law school next fall have access to Westlaw during the summer but should not use their student account for paid positions …

UniCourt made two updates to its Legal Innovation Contest. If you are interested in submitting an idea utilizing their APIs, the deadline has been extended from March 31st to April 14th--so you have two more weeks to tweak your idea if you need some extra …

Last weekend BYU Law School hosted a chapter of the Global Legal Hackathon, in which participants have 30 hours to come up with an innovative solution to a legal problem. Participating in the competition is a huge commitment for busy law students, but BYU students …

If you have written a paper related to legal history, or are writing a paper this semester, consider submitting it to the 12th annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition! The Legal History and Rare Books Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) …

Legal encyclopedias don't always seem like the most helpful research tools for academic legal writing. American Jurisprudence (Am. Jur.) and Corpus Juris Secundum (CJS) provide solid background information, but often that information is too basic and we need to dig into a treatise, American Law …

PowerNotes is a new-ish company that helps you take notes easily while doing online research and keep those notes organized. What sets them apart from other companies is that it was started by a law school grad. This means PowerNotes works hard to integrate well …

Jared Correia, CEO of Red Cave Consulting and legal tech writer at Above the Law, has put together a dictionary of legal tech words that every lawyer should know. The dictionary is a light and sometimes funny take on legal tech terms that still manages …

On Thursday, March 17th at 11am the Library will present Immigration Clinic & Practice Prep, a workshop focused on practical resources and tools for immigration law practice and service in the Community Law Clinic. The 30-minute session will be held in room 267. Takeaway boxed …

Have an idea that uses docket APIs to create a legal tech product or solve a problem? Docket and legal analytics innovator UniCourt is holding their first ever Legal Innovation contest. Entering is easy--submit a one sentence summary that pitches your idea along with a …

Law professors and law students should use Perma.cc links in their articles! And journal editors should encourage their authors to use Perma.cc links as well! What is a perma.cc link? Perma.cc links are free to make and allow you to save a snapshot of how a …

Doing a preemption check--a search for articles that have made the same argument or used the same thesis as your paper--is a critical first step when writing any academic paper that calls for original work. SSRN has many papers that are accessible before they are …

LIT SUITE is set of litigation-focused apps designed to save attorney time in and out of the courtroom, and they are available to law students to try out for free! Exclusively for the iPad, the apps include: TrialPad, the OG LIT SUITE app, is a …

BYU's 3MT (Three-Minute Thesis) Competition is a campus-wide contest with cash prizes in which students have three minutes to present their research projects. This is a great opportunity to practice presentation/oral advocacy skills in a low-stakes environment. Not a lot of preparation is required and …

Bloomberg Law is a database that includes lots of useful resources but is best-known for its practical tools (e.g. practice area guides and manuals) and its court docket records, including access to court documents. It has all federal courts and some state court records. But …

More than 120 people have clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer during his time at the Supreme Court, and many of them now among the ranks of elite appellate attorneys (Neal Katyal) and law school deans (Stanford, Virginia, Penn). Reuters spoke with some of his clerks …

We have two workshops coming up in early February on advanced legal topics. Please register if you're interested! Library Workshop: Historical Legal Research will be held on Thursday, February 3, 2022 from 11am-11:30am in Room 267. This session will focus on historical statutes, case law, …

Paul Watkins presented fascinating advice at BYU Law’s Future of Law Forum yesterday on how to become an expert. Watkins has an impressive resume—he’s an attorney at Patomak Global Partners, the founder of the Office of Innovation at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the …