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Law Library Blog (November 2023): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (April 2023): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (May 2022): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (December 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (October 2021): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (December 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (October 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (September 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (August 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (May 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Does Ai Hold The Keys? Bloomberg Law’S Docket Key Unlocks Federal District Courts, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

Evans shares a review of Bloomberg Law's newly expanded docket search "Docket Key" by providing a brief intro to docket searching and explaining the type of AI-machine learning at work in the product.

The CS-SIS Blog Committee is charged with providing CS-SIS members with timely and useful information through an official yet informal medium about relevant subjects for the membership, including the activities of the members, committees, and Executive Board.

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Law Library (But Were Afraid To Ask), Heather Simmons, Rachel S. Evans, Marie Mize, Szilvia Somodi

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There's more to the library than books and a pretty view! Come learn about the useful and not-so-obvious services the law library has to offer. Topics covered will include:

• Navigating the library facility, browsing the shelves by subject, and emergency prep info
• Other items (other than books!) that are available for checkout
• How to find and request items in Course Reserves or through Interlibrary Loan
• How to search GAVEL (the library catalog) and use subject headings to discover related items by topic
• What our most popular databases are (other than Westlaw and Lexis Nexis) and how to use our A …

Law Library Blog (April 2019): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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Law Library Blog (October 2017): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

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The Future Of Law Libraries, Tina M. Brooks, Franklin L. Runge, Beau Steenken

Law Faculty Popular Media

Law libraries are filed with the rules that govern our society, thoughtful scholars, conscientious lawyers, some hard working students, and some procrastinating students. In the past, this required libraries to collect hardbound volumes and loose leafs. Today, the collection is beginning to give way to research platforms filed with those same, or similar, materials and then some; much of the primary legal documentation is even freely available on the web.

While the physical footprint of the library may be smaller as a result of this transition, the amount of legal information that researchers have access to has grown exponentially. We …

Lexis V. Westlaw For Research - Better, Different, Or Same And The Qwerty Effect?, Jon R. Cavicchi

Law Faculty Scholarship

There are synchronistic moments when in the process of writing. While contemplating this article, an email message made its way to my desk, past Pierce Law Center's spam firewall with the following subject line: "Pepsi v. Coke-Tell Us--Get $10." Do IP researchers choose Lexis or Westlaw justified by taste? Surely you jest, some voice said to me. Repressing this message, I proceeded to compare platform content, perform literature searches, and poll students and IP professors.

Yet another synchronistic moment came as the email from those taking the poll steamed into my email. Many IP professors indicated that they made the …

Intellectual Property Research: From The Dustiest Law Book To The Most Far Off Database, Jon R. Cavicchi

Law Faculty Scholarship

This issue of IDEA introduces a regular series of articles on intellectual property research tools and strategies based on my experience for over a decade as Intellectual Property Librarian and Research Professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center. Pierce Law is consistently ranked among the top law schools training IP professionals. I have taught IP legal research, patent, trademark and copyright searching to hundreds of students and IP professionals in Pierce Law Graduate Programs. I have tackled hundreds of reference and research questions as well as working on countless projects requiring IP information. So I have been faced with challenges and …