Last night was the Annual Awards Banquet and Barrister's Ball. It was a great event and we had the opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of many of the Law School's students, faculty and staff. For those of you that couldn't attend, here …

As lawyers attempt to cut costs in today's economy, free and low-cost legal research systems are becoming more and more popular. Many state bar associations have contracted with low-cost legal research vendors to provide a legal research system as a bar membership …

The website of the Supreme Court of the United States has a new look today. I for one am appreciative of the face lift as the previous site was pretty outdated. At this point there doesn't appear to be much change in …

Professor Gordon Smith has recently posted one of his newest articles, Unpacking Adaptability, to SSRN. Co-authored with Andreas Engert, this article was published in the Brigham Young University Law Review in 2009. For more of Professor Smith's papers on SSRN click here.

BYU Law School will host the 2010 Conference of Religiously Affiliated Law Schools on March 18-19, 2010. The conference theme is "Blessing the Lives of Our Law Students: Opportunities and Challenges." Program and registration information is available here.

You've all seen the grand piano on the main floor of the library. You've probably wondered if it ever gets used. Occasionally it does, and tonight is one of those occasions. The Library will host the Law School Recital at 7:30pm tonight …

As a law student I never quite had a grasp on how to respond when an interviewer asked, "Do you have any questions for us?" I always came up with something, but I doubt it was particularly good. In that vein, I …

We've talked here in the past about searching HeinOnline (see here and here). It takes some getting used to if you're coming from Google, Westlaw or Lexis, but can be very valuable to legal researchers. Hein has continued to improve its search …

Elder Dallin H. Oaks, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the LDS Church, was at Harvard Law School last Friday to speak at the annual Mormonism 101 Series organized by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society's Harvard University …

Wayne Schneider, the Law Library's Electronic Resources Manager, recently received the Staff and Administrative Employee Recognition Award from the University. Congratulations to Wayne! [caption id="attachment_717" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Law Library Director Kory Staheli presents the award to Wayne Schneider."][/caption]

Professor David Dominguez has recently posted several of this articles to SSRN. Here's the list: Legal Education and the Ecology of Cultural Justice: How Affirmative Action Can Become Race-Neutral by 2028 Community Lawyering in the Juvenile Cellblock: Creative Uses of Legal Problem …

We hope you got to relax and recharge your batteries a bit over Placement Break. Here at the Law Library we were trying to improve things for you and underwent a bit of construction. New power outlets are now installed near the …

BYU Law was ranked 34th in this year's Go-To Law School List by The National Law Journal. The Go-To Law School List ranks law schools by percentage of 2009 J.D. graduates who were employed by NLJ 250 firms by the end of …

Have you ever been frustrated by too much information when searching legal journals on Westlaw and Lexis? Full-text searching is wonderful, but at times it can be a bit overwhelming. Especially when you are searching for a general concept or one that …

Professor null has recently posted one of his recent articles, Worse than Exemption, on SSRN. Co-authored with Robert J. Peroni and Stephen E. Shay, this article was published in the Emory Law Journal in 2009. Professor Fleming has recently been appointed to …

We apologize for the noise and mess on the north end of the Law Library this morning. We are using the placement break as a chance to bring power outlets to the soft seating on the 2nd and 3rd floors. If you're …

HeinOnline recently made its proximity searching much more user friendly. Now when users run a search in the Field Search screen they can select if they want their terms to be "within 5," "within 10," or "within 25" words of each other. …