Bloomberg Law has a new Early Career Resources page that can provide you with support as you begin your first legal job! This new collection features articles, Practical Guidance, and reference materials that that can help you complete common tasks, brush up on the law, interact with others, and preserve your well-being as you transition …
With the coming arrival of Westlaw Advantage for students, Westlaw promises “the combined power of agentic AI and industry-leading content.” Beyond the promised changes to the underlying technology, the launch adds yet another name to Westlaw’s long line of rebrands with each one marking how the company has tried to define the future of legal …
What is Search Advisor? There’s a new feature on Bloomberg Law that can help you with your docket searches! Over the summer, Bloomberg launched a new Dockets Home Page. The redesigned page includes an option to track dockets, as well as an interactive U.S. map that allows you to quickly view Bloomberg’s extensive docket coverage in …
Have you tried CoCounsel, Thomson Reuters’s generative AI legal assistant, yet? CoCounsel can help users perform a range of legal tasks, including researching, reviewing, summarizing, and drafting. Today, we’ll look at CoCounsel’s Compare Documents skill, which can find and compare specific information across two or more documents. What can you do with Compare Documents? You …
A court case involves more than just the final opinion. Many documents are created during active cases that are useful for research, including briefs, trial transcripts, jury instructions, and more. These can be found in the court docket. The materials in a docket can reveal what arguments persuaded the court and contextualize factual issues that …
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library has just acquired the CQ Press Supreme Court Collection, a new research database, available to the entire UNC community. The CQ Press Supreme Court Collection provides a wide variety of materials related to the United States Supreme Court, including case summaries, justice profiles, analysis of the history and traditions …
As of early January, academic Westlaw Edge accounts transitioned to Westlaw Precision. This update brings some new research features as well as a new homepage layout: This post will cover a few easy ways to customize your Westlaw homepage to better suit your needs and help you get into your most-used resources faster. Changing the …
The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary is an invaluable resource for researching federal judges. Published by Wolters Kluwer, it provides biographic profiles, financial disclosure information, noteworthy rulings, media coverage, and commentary by attorneys who have firsthand experience practicing in front of their local judges. It is updated semi-annually and covers all judges in the federal …
The Law Library has recently added two new packages of digital study aids to our extensive digital study aid collection. Some particularly popular highlights include One L of a Year: How to Maximize Your Success in Law School by Leah M. Christensen; Constitutional Law, Principles and Policies by Erwin Chemerinsky; and Civil Procedure by Richard …
The Library of Congress has just debuted Newspaper Navigator, a new tool for searching over 1.5 million newspaper images in their collections. The Library of Congress and their partners have digitized over 16 million pages of newspapers from across American history as part of their Chronicling America database. The Newspaper Navigator uses machine learning and …
