If you’ve just finished your first year or you took Advanced Legal Research, don’t forget that you can use your Bloomberg Law password without an educational purpose restriction. Bloomberg Law access and help is available at https://www.bloomberglaw.com/.

Lexis

Students will have full access to Lexis Advance all summer for educational purposes. Students simply need to have a registered Lexis Advance ID as there is no longer a summer access registration requirement.

Educational use includes:

• Summer course preparation and assignments
• Research associated with Moot Court, Law Review, or Law Journal
• Research associated with pursuing a grant or scholarship
• Services as a research assistant to a professor
• An internship, externship, or clinic position for school credit or graduation requirement
• Study for the bar exam
• Research skill improvement for educational purposes

Note: Student Lexis.com IDs will be restricted to a limited menu of Career resources from June 1st to August 1st.  However, if you need access to specific content available only on Lexis.com (i.e. international materials), contact our Lexis Account Executive, Marantha Beatty-Brown, at marantha.beatty-brown@lexisnexis.com to obtain access.

Westlaw

Summer access to Westlaw for educational use can be requested at http://lawschool.westlaw.com/registration/SummerExtension.aspx

Educational use includes:

• Summer law school classes
• Law Review and Journal work
• Project for a professor
• Moot Court
• Unpaid non-profit public interest internship/externship or pro bono work required for graduation

Any questions can be directed to our West Academic Account Manager, Bryan McAffee, at Bryan.McAffee@thomsonreuters.com

Books:

Wes Henricksen, Making Law Review: The Expert’s Guide to Mastering the Write-On Competition (2008). Law Reserve KF250 .H46 2008

Eugene Volokh, Academic Legal Writing : Law Review Articles, Student Notes, Seminar Papers, and Getting on Law Review (2010)  Law Reserve KF250 .V65 2010  

Articles:

Editors of the Houston Law Review,  Surviving the Write-On Competition and other Sound Advice based on Selected Tips from: Eugene Volokh, Getting Started Academic Legal Writing (2007) (May 2, 2012, 3:35 PM) http://www.houstonlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/woc_handbook.pdf

Jeffery Lawrence Weeden, Write on to Law Review. If you don’t have top grades but still want this valuable experience, follow the game plan of a 3L who earned a spot in his school’s write-on competition, 33 Student Lawyer 16 (2004-2005)

Mark Klompken and Tove Klovning

We deviated from the rule in two respects.  We put the entire tweet in the title field and we added the word tweet after the URL.

Paul D. Anderson, “The Locks Law Firm just filed an 80+ player complaint v. #NFL. Now brings the total to more than 1,300 plaintiffs and 63 lawsuits.”  (April 12, 2012, 9:47 AM), http://twitter.com/#!/PaulD_Anderson/status/194799715563487232,  Tweet.

Tove Klovning and Mark Kloempken

Hattip:  Our colleague, Access Services/Government Documents Librarian & Lecturer in Law and librarian extraordinaire Judy Stark tipped us about this case.   Do you think that the pictures in the opinion may say more than a thousand words can tell?

Mark Kloempken and Tove Klovning

Click on the arrow next to the delivery icon in WestlawNext and choose the ‘Send to Amazon Kindle’ option. Type your Kindle e-mail address in the Kindle Email Address text box, then click ‘Send’.

Mark Kloempken and Tove Klovning

Updating a federal regulation has never been easier thanks to FDsys. For example, you can consult the digital List of Parts Effected to learn whether a change has been made to a federal regulation since annual edition of the Code of Federal Regulations was last published.   You can also update the regulation by searching the .pdf List of Sections publication by using the Advance Search feature in FDsys.  In addition, you can also search the digital Federal Register in FDsys, or consult the FederalRegister.gov website for potential updates.  The Federal Register.gov website is jointly administered by The Office of the Federal Register (FR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

All CFR volumes are issued each year in sets on a staggered, quarterly basis: Titles 1– 6 are current through January 1, Titles 17 – 27 are current through April 1, Titles 29 – 41 are current through July 1, Titles 42 – 50 are current through October 1.

We prefer consulting the List of Parts Affected option in FDsys.  Just ‘Choose Date Range’ in the pull down menu.  Enter the date when your title was last updated in the Annual Code of Federal Regulations and today’s date.  This search will link to the Federal Register page whenever a change has been made to your Title and Part since the Annual Code of Regulations was last updated.

To update your regulation using the ‘Browse CFR Parts Affected from the ‘advanced feature’ of FDsys you will need to:

• Go the FDsys webpage.
• Click on ‘Browse Collection.’
• Click on ‘List of CFR Sections Affected.’
• Click on ‘Browse CFR Parts Affected from the Federal Register.’
• Use the pull down menu adjacent to ‘Browse by Date.’  Chose Date Range and click ‘Go.’
• You will have to fill in the date ranges you wish to search.  Enter the date when your title was last updated in the Annual Code of Federal Regulations and today’s date.  Click ‘Go.’
• At this point you will see a screen listing all the titles of the CFR with a + sign next to each title.  Click on the plus sign until you see the part you are attempting to update. If it has been updated, you will see a link to the Federal Register.

To update your regulation using the digital List of CFR Sections Affected  from the “ Advance Search feature’ of FDsys you will need to:

• Go to the FDsys webpage.
• Click on ‘Advance Search’
• From ‘Available Collections,’ select List of CFR Sections Affected and click on ‘Add.’
• From ‘Search in’, use the pull down menu to select ‘Title Number.’
• Enter the CFR title you are attempting to update.
• Click on ‘Add more search criteria.’  This opens a second search box with a default search in ‘Full-Text of Publications and Metadata, enter the part number you are attempting to update and click ‘Search.’
• The default for search results is ‘Relevance.’  You may wish to change the sort criteria to ‘Date (New to Old).

These options are free of charge! The choice is yours.

Mark Kloempken and Tove Klovning

With HeinOnline’s iPad/iPhone app, you can read an account of Susan B Anthony’s trial on the charge of illegal voting in the Presidential election of November 1872 (from the World Trials Library); check the Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (in the Federal Agency Documents Library); examine the Model Penal Code (in the ALI Library) or check out Prof. Keating’s new article in the Utah Law Review.

Note: after you download the app, you have to click on IP authentication.  You also must identify yourself as a Washington University patron by using WUFI-S or connecting to the VPN:

WestlawNext’s IPad app is also very functional.  Ever wonder how many times Facebook is mentioned in WLN? (783 cases, 63 statutes, 545 admin decisions, 5387 secondary sources and 4282 trial court docs.) Or maybe you want to know what Judge Posner thinks about the Cat’s Paw theory and other such metaphoric doctrines.

Of course, you can do the same using Lexis Advance’s app.

Did you know that the Unites States Department of Labor  also offers this option? It is like subscribing to a email group, but instead of emails  your ‘RSS Reader’ of choice will be notified every time your favorite website updates.  To learn more check out the RSS  video snippet on YouTube.

The video snippet is only  3:45 minutes long, but will change the way you approach the web in the future.

Mark  Kloempken and Tove Klovning

Here is why:

The agency’s web site may list an upcoming final rule on its website before the final rule gets published in the Federal Register.  For example, “Giant constrictors have a huge impact on the complex food web of the Everglades,” see Cutis Morgan, Pytons Feasting in Everglades, STL Post Dispatch on 01/31/2012 at A4.

Is the government responding to this problem at all?  A quick search in FDSys’s Federal Register’s leads you to 77 FR 3330  This final rule was published on 1/23/2012.  However, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service mentioned this forth coming final rule on its website as early as 1/19/2012, five days before the rule was published in the Federal Register.

The research itself does not take long time. Only two steps.

1. Check the Agency web site
2. Check the Federal Register

Mark Kloempken and Tove Klovning