3.13.2007

LAW SCHOOLS' SUPREME COURT CLINICS MAKE THEIR MARK

Anyone wishing to read more can view the full-text of this article (March 8, 2007 of the Legal Times) from the link below:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1173261798498


CONTINUING LEGAL RESEARCH SERIES

The Center for Legal Information is pleased to announce it's Spring Semester Continuing Legal Research Education Series (CLRE). All Sessions will be held from 12-12:30pm in the Broughton Lab, located on the ground floor of the library. You may sign up for classes at http://www.lawlib.duq.edu/dcli_clre_signups.html.

The class dates and topics are as follows:

Wednesday, March 14 - Legal Search Engines (Rao)
Wednesday, March 21 - Comparison of Keycite and Shepard's (Professor Liu)
Wednseday, March 28 - Legislative History (Beru)



3.08.2007

ARCHIVAL SETS OF CFR

HeinOnline: From 1938 through 1983. Access HeinOnline from our home page www.lawlib.duq.edu (select HeinOnline from the drop down menu under "Essential Legal Links" on the left side of the page)

Lexis and Westlaw:
From 1984 through current.


ENGLISH REPORTS AVAILABLE ON HEINONLINE

Hein reports: "HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865. It represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867."

You can retrieve cases by English Reports citation, Nominative citation and case name.


JUSTIA LAUNCHES FREE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT FILINGS DATABASE SEARCH

Visit Justia at http://dockets.justia.com and click on Pennsylvania for Eastern, Middle and Western District courts.