UNC Law Library Electronic Resources Librarian Donna Nixon recently published her article, “The Integration of UNC-Chapel Hill – Law School First,” 97 N.C. L. Rev. 1741 (2019), with the North Carolina Law Review. Professor Nixon led the law library’s effort to create a digital collection of photographs, legal documents, oral history transcripts, and contemporary …
The NC Courts Website as a Research Tool
When the North Carolina court system launched its new website, it streamlined the design and made information about the courts easier to find. The new website includes information targeting public users, but it also includes features that make it an excellent research tool. Informational Features NCCourts.org provides direct access to information about court locations, court …
Try Lex Machina for Legal Analytics
Have you been hearing all the buzz about legal analytics on Westlaw Edge and Lexis Advance? Don’t forget that you also have access to legal analytics platform Lex Machina! Lex Machina , a LexisNexis research tool, provides litigation and business data for legal professionals. The tool harvests data from a variety of resources to enable …
Develop Your Tech Knowledge: LinkedIn Learning for UNC Law Faculty & Students
LinkedIn Learning provides UNC Law faculty and students with access to hundreds of course modules and thousands of video tutorials on a variety of technology skills and software programs. The database divides its content into three general categories: business, creative, and technology. Within each of these categories, you will find tutorials on a variety of …
An Introduction to The Indigo Book
You’ve heard of The Bluebook. You’ve heard of The Redbook. (Probably.) But have you heard of The Indigo Book? If not, you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 ! The Indigo Book is an open system of citation that had its beta-release in 2016. It was created by a group of NYU law students and professor, …
New Book by UNC Law Librarian Julie Kimbrough: North Carolina Legal Research
The UNC Law Library’s own Julie L. Kimbrough is a co-author of the newly published third edition of North Carolina Legal Research with Brenda D. Gibson, Laura P. Graham, and Nichelle J. Perry. This text provides legal research instruction for an audience ranging from law students to laypersons to practitioners. After beginning with legal research …
How to Access Advanced Search on the New Lexis Advance Home Page
Lexis Advance recently redesigned its homepage to streamline search functions. The search bar and content type box remain in the same place, but they have hidden the “advanced search” link under a “more options” tab. Advanced search is one of the more powerful tools available to a legal researcher on Lexis. Options on this page …
New UNC Law E-book Library – Digital Access to More Major Legal Books & Treatises
Just in time for the fall semester we have many of the major legal treatises and desk books you need all in one place, your mobile device! That’s right, you can download high-demand legal texts to your device and (coming soon) highlight and add your own notes. Need to spend quality screen time curled up …
A Law Student’s Experience Using Casetext – Part 2: Using CARA
This post is my second in a series about Casetext. If you didn’t get a chance to read my first post, check it out here. In this post, I discuss my experience using Casetext’s Case Analysis Research Assistant (CARA). CARA is an artificial intelligence research tool that examines a brief, complaint, or memo you’ve uploaded and returns …
Current Awareness Resources for Summer Associates
We’re getting close to summer and that means starting summer jobs at law firms, government agencies, externships, etc. Perhaps you want to prepare for your job by learning more about the hot topics in an area of law, or perhaps you want to learn about some of the clients and industries you’ll be working with. Current …