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Legal Research Classes

First Year Training

Watch here for information about Westlaw and Lexis classes (CALR) upcoming in your first semester.

Law Library Research Certification

Law Library Research Certification is a valuable addition to your resumé. For more information, click here.

Research Assistance and Training offered by the Reference Staff

LRW II review lecture: a review of research techniques


Legal Research Lectures on Accordent:
Lecture 1: The Concept of Authority
Lecture 2: Reading Citations & Finding Cases
Lecture 4: Finding Cases using Lexis
Lecture 5: Finding Cases using Westlaw
Lecture 6: Shepard's Citations
Lecture 7: Using Keycite for Validation and Research
Lecture 8: Legislation and Statutes -- A Guide to Enactment and Publication
Lecture 9: Using Secondary Authorities
Lecture 10: Annotated Codes as a Starting Point
Lecture 11: Searching Statutes on Lexis
Lecture 12: Subject Searching using the Digest
Lecture 13: Legislative History
Lecture 14: Administrative Law

Computer Assisted Legal Research (CALR) classes

Sign up for Lexis Classes under "My School" tab
Sign up for Westlaw Classes: link is on the left, by the Reps picture.