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Good employment law guide
The United States Department of Labor developed an Employment Law Guide: Laws, Regulations, and Technical Assistance Services. Where applicable, the Guide provides hyperlinks to relevant statutes, r… more →
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Google Scholar offers Case Law
Jill Parsons wrote 1 month ago: Google Scholar has added a free database to its site allowing one to search case law. Be Spacific h … more →
Federal rules bar Twitter in courtroom?
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 1 month ago: Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure states “[T]he court must not permit the taking o … more →
Off-campus access to databases
Jill Parsons wrote 1 month ago: You can now access library databases from home. Simply use your Outlook Web Access username and pas … more →
Federal Register now in XML
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 2 months ago: According to the Washington Post, the Federal Register will now be available in XML from Data.gov. … more →
How West edits a decision
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 2 months ago: West developed a great video explaining how it takes a recently decided case and adds its editorial … more →
Citing Internet materials in opinions
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 4 months ago: The Judicial Conference has developed a series of “best practices” for courts to use whe … more →
OpenRegs.com
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 6 months ago: This is a great and user-friendly website that provides information on federal regulations. You can … more →
Video for tax students
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 6 months ago: The US Tax Court has developed a series of instructional videos explaining the tax court process. Y … more →
ICC Legal Tools
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 6 months ago: The International Criminal Court has developed Legal Tools an ” electronic library on internat … more →
What is USS?
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 7 months ago: You might have seen a new search box called NELLCO Universal Search Solution on our library homepage … more →
Free access to case law?
Jill Parsons wrote 7 months ago: That’s right, find out what the top ten free sites are to research case law, each carrying the … more →
GovFresh
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 7 months ago: From bespacific.com: GovFresh “is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, Y … more →
TransLex
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: From the Law Librarian Blog: ” TransLex is a free research and codification platform for trans … more →
FLARE database
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: From bespacific.com and LLRX.com: The FLARE index to treaties database ” is a fully searchab … more →
Tax website of interest
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: The Tax Daily for the Citizen Taxpayer at tax.com. Thanks to the Law Librarian Blog. … more →
Law librarians support open access journals
Jill Parsons wrote 8 months ago: More than ever, those in the legal field are doing their research online, including downloading jour … more →
Tutorials on YouTube
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: The Harvard Law School Library has developed some wonderful videos to help students do research. Yo … more →
Legal Blawgs
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: The Library of Congress began collecting information on legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has gr … more →
IP, cyberlaw and e-commerce CRS reports
Colleen Ostiguy wrote 8 months ago: IP Mall at Pierce Law has Congressional Research Service reports on IP, cyberlaw and e-commerce from … more →
