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Posted by Library
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10/16/2008 at 12:00 AM
The Law Library employs students to assist with computer-related problems. They can answer basic questions about wordprocessing, email, electronic databases, and Internet. They can assist with printing problems in the computer labs. Look for the photo at the Circulation Desk indicating the Computer Lab Assistant who is on duty. In order to better acquaint you with our Computer Lab Assistant, here is a brief bio about each one!
Third-year student Dan Caswell is from Stonington, Connecticut. He graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs where he majored...
Posted by Hala
Furst
10/13/2008 at 12:00 AM
I just returned from Washington DC and the Equal Justice Works Career Fair and Conference. DC is great. Whether you spend time in hip Adams Morgan, gentrified Georgetown, up on the Hill or at Dupont Circle, there is always something going on. It is a young city, with very few lifers. People come from all walks of life to work with, against, or beside the federal government, and it makes for an amazing mix of cultures. Not many are really from DC, but the steadfast few that are wear their city pride like a tattoo. It is a city built on power and influence, and if you can trade either you might...
Posted by Library
Blog
10/08/2008 at 12:00 AM
Ever wonder what’s beyond LexisNexis and Westlaw? Come and find out at the Database Expo sponsored by the Law Library! Explore a variety of databases. Featured databases are:
• Bureau of National Affairs databases including Family Law Reporter, Environment Reporter, IP Library, and Employment Discrimination Reporter • CCH Business & Finance Library • CCH Tax Research Network • Constitutions Suite Online • HeinOnline • LexisNexis Congressional • Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 • RIA Checkpoint Tax Library • Selected International law resources
Also, enjoy...
Posted by Hala
Furst
10/05/2008 at 12:00 AM
If the first year of law school is the frightening sprint down a dark and blind alley, the second year is a long, uphill slog, carrying baggage you didn’t even know you had. The job search, which at times can seem like an exciting look into all the possibilities that a law degree can offer, and other times seem to be an exercise in self-destruction, is incessant. The work load is intense, with the very dense subjects of Con Law and Evidence topping off whatever electives you have picked. The safe harbor of your section has been ripped asunder, as everyone goes about their days in a new,...
Posted by Library
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10/02/2008 at 12:00 AM
For following the current news about the U.S. and global economy, banking, and financial markets, daily issues of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times are available on the newspaper stands in the Law Library. Previous issues of these newspapers are kept on Reserve for a few weeks. LexisNexis offers full-text access to articles from all three newspapers. Westlaw provides full-text access to the contents of The New York Times as well as abstracts from The Wall Street Journal. The websites of these newspapers offer varying amounts of free...
Posted by Library
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09/24/2008 at 12:00 AM
OMG! Having a mini-meltdown because your Legal Methods professor has asked you to search a digest for cases? Do not despair! Help is only 30 minutes away! Plan to attend a 30 minute session on digest research conducted by Associate Law Librarian Lucinda Harrison-Cox. Three 30 minute sessions will be held in Training Lab 1 on the following dates and times:
Monday, September 29th at 11:30 Tuesday, September 30th at 11:30 Tuesday, September 30th at 1:00
If these times do not work for you, please contact Lucinda Harrison-Cox. She is open to scheduling additional...
Posted by Kelly
Bennett
09/20/2008 at 12:00 AM
Orientation seems like it’s a million years away!
In just a few short weeks, we’ve begun classes, made friends, and gotten waist deep in law school! While professors remind us that we are in the “walk” phase, I’m a little out of breath! Work in law school is very different than work in undergraduate courses: it requires much more careful reading, thinking beyond the text, and asking the tough questions, like “what if” and “what does this mean?” Most of what we are doing is reading and briefing cases, and trying to come up with what the courts say the rule is when dealing...
Posted by Library
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09/18/2008 at 12:00 AM
Second-year student Casey Lee is the new Westlaw student rep with third-year student Katherine “Kathy” Sulentic continuing as a Westlaw student rep for the 2007-08 academic year. Their job involves making sure all the equipment runs correctly, checking the mailroom for any items delivered to Westlaw, helping our Westlaw Academic Account Manager Mark Jackson with any issues he may have, conducting one-on-one training with students, assisting both faculty and staff with any Westlaw products, holding marketing events, and answering student questions. In order to better acquaint you with...
Posted by Library
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09/17/2008 at 12:00 AM
Second-year students Sara Mazzochi and Alexandra “Lexi” Nolin were recently hired as LexisNexis student reps. Their job responsibilities include helping or training anyone who needs help at RWUSOL in LexisNexis products and research techniques, making sure the LexisNexis equipment, including the printers, run as they should, assisting our LexisNexis Representative Steve Albro with anything he might need and conducting marketing events throughout the course of the year. In order to better acquaint you with them, here is some interesting information about each one!
Sarah graduated from...
Posted by Hala
Furst
09/15/2008 at 12:00 AM
Meta-Studying
So as I lay on my futon, reading a literal mountain of cases, watching Raising the Bar on TNT, I realize two things: 1. Zach Morris needs a better hairdresser, and 2. I have gone through the looking glass.
Just as Grey’s Anatomy somehow made the drudgery of spending hours on end covered in other people’s blood, never sleeping, and generally becoming emotional train-wrecks sexy for medical students, so this show attempts to make the grueling hours spent pushing along the machinery of the criminal justice system seem “hot”. I’m not entirely convinced, but that might just be...