The Law Library has recently acquired access to the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Digital Library. This database contains over 2,000 scholarly articles dealing with natural resources law that the Foundation has published since 1955. Articles are full-text searchable and available in …
The Law Library is relatively quiet with most of you away at your summer externships and clerkships. As you well know, due to the economy Summer 2009 is quite different than summers past. I thought you might be interested in Some Words …
Today a colleague and I had a lunch meeting with a group of attorneys in Salt Lake to discuss legal research. One of them kept pointing out that law students need to realize they don't have to recreate the wheel. Secondary sources …
With bar exam prep in full swing I thought I'd mention that the Law Library has several resources to help with your bar study. Last year we acquired Rigos Bar Review Series, which contains volumes on the MBE, MEE, MPRE, and the …
For those of you interested in pursuing a judicial clerkship (and with the economy the way it is that may be a lot of you) Above the Law is reporting that the Clerkship Notification Blog for the 2010-2011 clerkship season is up …
Westlaw's main law school interface looks a little different than it used to. The heart of the change is that users can now conduct searches of multiple databases from the main research screen. This mirrors the functionality users have had on the …
Last month over at the Volokh Conspiracy, guest blogger Ira Matetsky had an interesting series of posts about Wikipedia. Matetsky is a New York litigation attorney and a Wikipedia administrator and member of the in-house Arbitration Committee. In the posts he gives …
Yale Law Library has recently created a new database that tracks federal judicial nominations. The site includes information on federal judicial nominees from the 103rd Congress to the present. The Yale Law Library Reference Blog reports that the site offers The ability …
Professor RonNell Andersen Jones has recently posted her newest article on media subpoenas to SSRN. Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, and Legal Protection in the Changing World of American Journalism is forthcoming in the Washington Law Review. Here's the abstract: Forty years ago, …
An article about the Rex E. Lee Advocacy Program has been posted on the Law School's website.
LexisNexis has recently announced its new Associates Serving Public Interests Research Program that supports 2009 graduates pursuing public interest work. 2009 graduates can sign up for free access to LexisNexis if they fall into one of the following categories: Deferred fall associates …
Last Thursday the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing on the nomination of Professor Larry EchoHawk to be the Assistant Secretarty of Indian Affairs. A webcast of the hearing can be found here. You can also read the prepared …
The Blog of LegalTimes is reporting that Judge Michael McConnell is stepping down from his position on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit to become the director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. (Court announcement here.) …
I've blogged before about free and low-cost legal research alternatives and their growing popularity in the current economic climate (see here). Robert J. Ambrogi has recently written Get Your Free Case Law for Law Technology News in which he provides information on …
The Daily Universe recently ran a story on BYU Law School's jail outreach program. It's good to see our students serving during their time here.
LexLibris, the University of Minnesota Law Library blog, has directed my attention to an interesting news article on the West publishing company and Westlaw titled Westlaw Rises to Legal Publishing Fame by Selling Free Information.
Above The Law has recently provided a new resource that gathers information on the top law firms in the United States. ATL's Career Center provides information such as compensation, billable hours, partnership prospects, etc. for these firms. Each Firm Snapshot also links …
The Rex E. Lee Advocacy program was ranked 17th this year in the U.S. News and World Report rankings (see the top 25 programs here), up 5 places from a year ago. Interim Dean Gordon made special mention of the program's top …
