Check out HLSL Research Librarian / Instruction Coordinator AJ Blechner’s newly updated research guides: Prepare to Practice and Local Law Libraries. Prepare to Practice This research guide is a great place to start if you’re starting summer employment or a new job. Topics include 50-state surveys, legislative history, regulations, dockets, forms, current awareness, and more. Want to learn …
Time flies, and summer is almost here. Whether you’re looking forward to a great summer job opportunity or you’re about to graduate from HLS, there are online research resources available to you. Here’s what you need to know about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts … plus a bit more. BLOOMBERG LAW RETURNING STUDENTS’ SUMMER …
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It’s hard to believe the semester is almost over! As you prepare for exams, remember that your friends at the HLS Library are here to provide research support, exam prep tips, a building full of friendly faces … and some cute animal pictures. We’re here for you, and we know you’ve got this! Prepare for Exams Research Librarian …
Tuesday, April 5, 12:30pm-1:30pm Eastern time via Zoom WebinarsWritten By Mark Tushnet, Cambridge University Press, published January 2022 Join us for a discussion on The Hughes Court From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941 with author Mark Tushnet and panelists Nikolas Bowie, Richard Fallon, Kenneth Mack, and Adrian Vermeule. This event is free and will be recorded. Registration is required. If …
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You’re about done with your brief, but still have one more thing to do: your Table of Authorities. Don’t worry if you haven’t started this yet. It’s a good idea to do this at the end. Creating your Table gives you one more chance to check your citations and your work. And, if you do this too early …
You’ve added all of your Headings with Heading Styles, but do they do anything other than look good? Definitely! They let you use Word’s powerful organizational tools – Navigation and Table of Contents. Navigation It’s hard to move between sections when you are working on a long document. You can use your Heading styles to move between sections …
So you’re working on a document that requires no numbers on the first page, Roman numbers for a Table of Contents and similar material, and Arabic numbers for the content. Is there a way to do this without numbering each page by hand? Yes! The secret is a hidden tool called “Section Break Next page.” Hidden Characters If …
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Sometimes, Word just… goes off. The formatting isn’t what you wanted. The spacing is all over the place. When you start typing, the new paragraph doesn’t exactly resemble the previous one. We can help you with that. Styles -There is a better way: Styles are the most useful tool you aren’t using in Word. You’ve seen them in …
The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz As I’m writing this, the UN estimates that about over 2,000,000 Ukrainians have fled the Russian invasion and subsequent war. By bus, by car, by train, the refugees are seeking safety from the tanks rolling down their roads and highways. This means that there are still millions are left in Ukraine. And …
Legal forms may be the unsung heroes of legal research, especially for people with limited legal practice experience. Both Lexis and Westlaw have large libraries of legal forms that you can use as models for your own documents. Here a few examples of occasions where legal forms can help save you time and guide you in the right …